#sprintime

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trees in bloom around Bucharest

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birds in colorado

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Cymon and Iphigenia

Artist: Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896)

Date: 1884

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

The painting is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. It depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath. Nahum felt it "emphasized the transforming power of beauty." Boccaccio set the story in the springtime; Leighton preferred the ambience of a more autumnal feel. The artist was very precise about the mood he wanted to reflect by describing the specific setting of the time of day as "the most mysteriously beautiful in the whole twenty-four hours". He wished to capture the overall impression of drowsiness just before drifting to sleep especially on long hot days as night begins to fall. The painting is set when there is the "merest lip of the moon" showing on the horizon above the sea and the atmosphere is "haunted still with the flush of the after-glow from the sun already hidden in the west."

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Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964, Italian) ~ Cortile di via Fondazza, 1958

[Source: arthistoryproject.com]

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Hyacinth 

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little boy flying fox for spring! A discord banner for my dear Opal, of her sweet familiar Vega!