Requiem for Rusalka

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[speciesbarocus]

[artist-corot]

Ville d'Avray, 1870, Camille Corot

Medium: oil,canvas

[klassizismus]

Detail: Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio (detail), 1838, by Ary Scheffer (Dutch, 1795-1858)

[klassizismus]

Detail: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1655, by Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602-1674)

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The Orchestra at the Opera, 1870, by Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)

[darksanctuary]

[klassizismus]

Interior, No. 30 Strandgade, 1906, by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth. So without experiencing things, should I not find life?

─ Clarice Lispector, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (1943).

[artist-savrasov]

Early spring. Birches by the river, 1893, Aleksey Savrasov

[humblebumble]

[thegardennymph]

[klassizismus]

Old Man's Death (1890) by László Mednyánszky (Hungarian, 1852-1919)

[klassizismus]

Portrait of Wincenty Rapacki as Hamlet (1870) by Karol Miller (Polish, 1835-1920)

[loumargi]

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (1883 – 1960, Australian)

[speciesbarocus]

Luis Tristán - Trinity (‘Not Gottes’ type) (1624).

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“In some parts of Germany there was a very moving devotion that contemplated the Not Gottes (“poverty of God”).” “an impressive image representing the suffering Father, who, as Father, shares inwardly the sufferings of the Son.”

- Pope Benedict XVI [x]

[simena]

[maureen2musings]

I have no words to describe the feeling of being in this magical forest with these ancient, magnificent beauties

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