#anhelli

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“Śmierć Ellenai / Death of Ellenai” Jacek Malczewski 1883

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round 1.2 poll 8

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which painting by Jacek Malczewski do you like better?

Aniele, pójdę za tobą (Angel, I will follow you)

Śmierć Ellenai (The death of Ellenai)

Voting ended onDec 5, 2023

Aniele, pójdę za tobą (Angel, I will follow you), 1901:

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Śmierć Ellenai (The death of Ellenai), 1907:

propaganda: It's just wild. Malczewski painted three (or at least I know three) pieces about this subject (a poem "Anhelli"), called exactly the same, and here's the weirder one (but not the weirdest). I think one frame of "Chłopi" was inspired by this painting.

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Jacek Malczewski / “Death of Ellenai” (”Death of an Exile in Siberia, On the Deathbed” / 1883 / National Museum, Kraków

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“Scene from Juliusz Słowacki's Anhelli” (1892)

Witold Pruszkowski (Polish;1846-1896)

oil on canvas

National Museum in Wrocław

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Lo, I will drive all these souls from their bodies and give them leave to enter into water-lilies, and to fly abroad among the rosy stars, and to dwell in that which is most beautiful, and to forsake men.

Juliusz Słowacki, Anhelli

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round 1.1 poll 5

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which painting by Wlastimil Hofman do you like better?

Eloe nad zwłokami Anhellego (Eloe with Anhelli's body)

Na nowy żywot (For a new life)

Voting ended onDec 1, 2023

Eloe nad zwłokami Anhellego (Eloe with Anhelli's body), 1917:

propaganda: first of all Anhelli the poem kinda rules. second of all Eloe baby arent you cold. third of all idk to me it just somehow feels full of hope

[read about Anhelli, a prose poem by the romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki]

Na nowy żywot (For a new life), 1906:

propaganda: I love this piece just for making the demon beautiful -- the translucent cape, the wings, the concentration in its brow. This guy is probably being taken to hell, and maybe the title is ironic, but also it feels kind of hopeful?

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Witold Pruszkowski, Eloe (1892)

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“And dost thou know who this sorrowful angel is in the burial-ground? Behold, she is called Eloe, and was born of Christ's tear on Golgotha, of that tear which was shed for the nations. . . . And now she is an exile as ye are exiles, and she hath felt deep love for your tombs, and she is the guardian of the gravestones, saying to the bones: ‘Complain not, but sleep!’ . . . Accustom thyself to her during thy life, for she will walk upon thy grave in the light of the moon; accustom thyself to her voice, that thou mayst not wake when she shall speak.”

— Juliusz Słowacki, Anhelli (Chapter 11)

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