καλοκαγαθία

narcissus | 26 | decadent socialite

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Carl Rasmussen (Danish, 1841–1893), "A Summer Night near Greenland around the Year 1000" (detail), 1875

[caedmonofwhitby]

A View of Cassiobury Park, 1748

John Wootton

Oil on Canvas

Watford Museum, Hertfordshire

[dailyclassicart]

Thomas Moran - "Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland" (1884)

[dailyclassicart]

Jean Jacob Verreyt - "Town by Night with Procession"

[artandthebible]

The Miracles of Saint James the Greater

Artist: Noël Nicolas Coypel (French, 1690–1734)

Date: 1726

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Description

Noël Nicolas Coypel combined two stories associated with Saint James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Christ. In the foreground is the magician Hermogenes, begging forgiveness. Hermogenes had cast a spell on James, but the saint turned the curse back on him. When James offered to protect Hermogenes against the demons assaulting him, the magician cast aside his pagan texts in favor of Christianity. According to scripture, James miraculously cured a paralytic man (in the middle ground at right), thereby averting his own execution and causing the prosecutor to convert.

[lcrdbyron]

There is eternity. This I reflect. Across the vast, impotent waves of time that loom over me, I break from their foam. I can taste the salt of them, but I do not spit them out or shake them from my lips. They are a part of me as I am from them. This conclusion is definite because eternity stems from you. I see it on the lines of your palm and the scar that runs parallel to your eyelid. On the joy I find in the disturbance of my sleep, because it means I get to fall asleep with you in my arms all over again. All of philosophy would be resolved if their authors had had the pleasure of meeting you. All of their questions answered, their search for existence quelled. I pity them for a second, before they slip off the surface of my mind. I turn back to rest on my knees and worship without end. This time, we actually discovered something new.

[dailyclassicart]

Anthonie de Lorme - "Interior of a Church at Night"

[dailyclassicart]

Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel - "The Return of the Fleet"

[dailyclassicart]

Oswald Achenbach - "Storm receding from the Italian Coast"

[dailyclassicart]

Anton Hansch - "View of Gosau in Dachstein"

[venustapolis]

Priam asking Achilles for the body of Hector (Théobald Chartran, 1876)

[chelseamorninggirl]

Constant Montald, Ophelia, 1893.

[dailyclassicart]

John Brett - "A North West Gale off the Longships Lighthouse" (1873)

[theodorafrompluto]

Lady with a Jewel Box - Prima Donna Marguerite in "Jewel Song" of Gounod's 'Faust' (19th century)

by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

[venustapolis]

Church Ruin in Winter (Carl Hasenpflug, 1848)

[weepingwidar]

Jannik Hösel (German, 1998) - Semele (2025)

[centuriespast]

Unknown woman, formerly known as Mary, Queen of Scots unknown artist National Portrait Gallery, London