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[paintingispoetry]

Edward Robert Hughes, Heart of Snow, ca. 1870-1915

[hellfreeway]

“Invocation” by Frederic Leighton, 19th century

[artist-bouguereau]

The Nymphaeum, 1878, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Size: 209.55x144.78 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[femme-de-lettres]

Large (Wikimedia)

The French Symbolist Gustave Moreau, one of the most distinctive artists I can think of, painted Jupiter and Semele in 1894 and 1895.

It depicts the story of Zeus appearing to his mortal lover, Semele. It’s a tale that explains both Zeus’ habit of showing up to his sundry women in the guise of animals, money, gusts of wind, &c., and the danger of tiny old ladies who give you strange romantic advice: sometimes they’re actually the wives of your weird deity boyfriends trying to trick you into demanding a glimpse of said boyfriend in his highly lethal superhuman-being form.

In short, don’t sleep with Zeus.

Semele, unfortunately, did not take my advice, and here dies in a visual cacophony of flowers and partially clad figures.

[marmarinos]

Detail of William Wetmore Story’s Cleopatra, dated to 1869. Marble. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[monsieurleprince]

Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky (1848 - 1904) - A kiss

[monsieurleprince]

Vasily Kotarbinsky (1849 - 1921) - Evening reverie

[songesoleil]

The Valkyrie’s Vigil.1906. Watercolour and gold paint on paper. Private collection.

Art by Edward Robert Hughes.(1851-1914).

[nemfrog]

“Ariel: On the bat’s back I do fly.” The Tempest. H.C. Selous, illus. The plays of William Shakespeare. 1870. 

[detailsofpaintings]

Jacques-Louis David, Apollon et Diane perçant de leurs flèches les enfants de Niobé (détails)

1772

[sollertias]

Portrait de la comédienne Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf by Nicolas de Largillierre, 1712 (detail)

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Amy Robsart, Thomas Francis Dicksee (British, 1819–1895)

[koredzas]

Fra Angelico - The Annunciation. Detail. 1430 - 1432

[loumargi]

Wilhelm (Vasily) Aleksandrovich Kotarbiński (1848-1921)Crowning the Poet - 1881

[immortart]

Alexandre Cabanel, Phaedra, 1880.

[marcuscrassus]

Paul Delaroche - The Young Martyr (1855)

[achasma]

The Toilette of Venus (detail) by François Boucher, 1751.