European Dreams

for the preservation of beauty and perseverance of our people

[expressions-of-nature]

Spring Sunset in Switzerland by Nikolai Matveev

[illustratus]

Farewell by Heinrich Vogeler

[1five1two]

This Green Man artwork is an Art Nouveau ceramic newel post from the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.

[illustratus]

A Knight and Cupid Before a Castle Door by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Cupid, the god of love, is the custodian of the keys to this castle. The knight, who wears a laurel wreath around his helmet indicating victory, must convince Cupid that he is fit to enter. Slung at the side of the knight’s charger are a crown, another laurel wreath, and a sleeping (or dead) dragon.

[illustratus]

Arthurian coats of arms from "Works on knighthood and tournaments" collection. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

[erdogun]

if you're quiet as an adult they kill you

[oldpaintings]

Knight at the Crossroads, 1882 by Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Russian, 1848–1926)

[claudette-monet]

Sunlight After the Storm by Claudette Monet

[throatoftheworld]

Kentaro Miura

[thekimonogallery]

Rakan at the Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.  Photographer John Paul Foster.

[antonio-m]

"Satyr (or Pan) with a Theatre Mask”, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections). marble

[enchantedbook]

The knight’s encounter with the mysterious faery lady, an otherworldly figure who enchants him, draws him away from the world of men, and leaves his soul bound to her spell.

“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful, a faery’s child…”

From John Keats’s poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Engraving after Edward Brewtnall, 1881.

[shisasan]

March 28, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[bardskull]

"For I desire the dark, the naked, and the lone."

— Charles Baudelaire, from "Obsession," Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), trans. Cyril Scott (Elkin Matthews, 1909)

[gentlemensarts]

Villa Cetinale, a 17th-century baroque villa located in the Tuscany region of Italy.

[garlandedspirits]

The Rose Bower (aka The Sleeping Beauty) (1871–73) by Edward Burne-Jones

[burtoo]

Oregon Coast - Brendon Burton