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[fravery]

Artist: Gunnar Widforss (Swedish-American, 1879-1934) Title: "Catalina Island” (1921) Medium: watercolor on paper

[postcard-from-the-past]

Map of the Île de Ré island, Aunis region of western France

French vintage postcard

[venustapolis]

Venus Abandoned (Arnold Böcklin, 1860)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Town scene in Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard

[7pleiades7]

Eine Waldnymphe (A Wood Nymph) (c. 1886) by Robert Pötzelberger (Austrian, 1856 – 1930), oil on panel, 51.8 cm (20.3 in) x 31.5 cm (12.4 in), Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

[ur-folk]

image of Rök runestone from book "Svenska Folkets Underbara öden" by Carl Grimberg (1916).

[7pleiades7]

The Birth of Aphrodite (1904) by Norman Prescott-Davies (British, 1862 – 1915), signed and dated ‘1904’ (lower left), oil on canvas, 105.5 x 60cm (41½ x 23½ in.), Private Collection

[hildegardavon]

Jean François Portaëls, 1818-1895

La Déesse de la vigne, n/d, oil on panel, 65x50 cm

Private Collection

[ur-folk]

My copy of Hellig Olaf: Historisk Fortælling by Elisabeth Schøyen, published in 1897. This edition features illustrations by Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.

[simena]

Arthur John Elsley

[pinkblanc]

Anders Billow, Sverige: Svenska Turistföreningen, 1937

[venustapolis]

Donar-Thor (Max Friedrich Koch, 1905)

[enchantedbook]

Frau Minne, the medieval goddess of love, rising like a tree above the two lovers as the notes of the opera drift around them.

Illustration by Franz Stassen, 1899 for Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde.

[fragrantblossoms]

Paul Bergon. At the Window, c. 1900.

[fragrantblossoms]

L. Lorjé jr. Horse in the meadow, c. 1900.

[oathtoblood]

Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad as Elsa in Richard Wagner's 'Lohengrin' (1929)

[kallmorgen]