Classic Arts

Classic paintings and literature (including period movies based on that literature, and/or about writers, painters and composers)

[baudelairesspleen]

And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

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Dostoevsky Moodboard Challenge ( 13 / infinite ): Minimalistic Covers Redesigned

What shall I talk about? About everything that strikes me and sets me to thinking.

[klasikart]

I Give Up

This is second time they flagged this blog explict/sensitive in just a few days, I have no clue what I’m doing wrong. If they ever decide to unflag it (forever) I might be back, but I highly doubt it.

[merulae]

‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies—I exist. I’m tormented on the rack—but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar—I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via merulae)

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Stephen Seymour Thomas

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The Alchemist David Teniers the Younger

[antigonick]

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (via antigonick)

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Herbert James Draper 

[klasikart]

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

[klasikart]

Fortune  Charles Allen Winter

[emilysblunt]

[okayodysseus]

literature posters, featuring anna karenina

“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day – that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.”

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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max 

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Details of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (Alexander Roslin) and Self-Portrait of Nicolas de Largillière

[kuutamosonaatti]

Caravaggio (1986) | dir. Derek Jarman

[quotemadness]

These violent delights have violent ends.

William Shakespeare (via quotemadness)

[oldpaintings]

Mona Lisa at the Louvre, 1911 by Louis Béroud (French, 1852–1930)