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Girl with Pearl Earring, at the museum - Johannes Vermeer

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the owl-eyed goddess athens, greece, jan 2020.

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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

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Georg Janny (1864–1935)

Stranger Things, 1920

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Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857)

Farm on a Mountain Side, 1854

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John Martin -Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

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A visual allegory of “your party was going great and all, you were carried on a throne, and your parents came back sooner than they swore”. Details: various interpretations of The Empire, by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Details by Steven Zucker.

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Details from St. Augustine (c.1645-1650) by Philippe de Champaigne

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Harald Oskar Sohlberg (Norwegian, 1869 - 1935) The Mermaid 1896

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Salomè con la testa del Battista (detail, ca.1615-18) Battistello Caracciolo

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Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.