The Man of Feeling

A blog about Romanticism in music, literature, art and achitecture.

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Architectural decay portrayed in art pieces

‘Roman Ruins’ by Hubert Robert, 1760

‘Capriccio of Classical Ruins’ by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1725 and 1730

‘Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figures’ by Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, 1725-1730

‘Ruins in Baalbek’ bu Jules Louis Coignet, 1846

‘Gothic Church Ruin’ by Carl Blechen, 1829-1831

‘The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’ by Louis Daguerre, 1824

‘Christ and Adulteress’ by Ascanio Luciano, 1669

‘Detail of View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum’ by Canaletto, 1742-1745

‘Ruins of the Palace’ by Ramon Martí Alsina, 1859

[thomaschatterton]

Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 - 2. Adagio

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupBruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 - 2. Adagio · Janine Jansen · Gewandhausorchester Leipzig · Riccard...

‘The violin can sing a melody better than the piano can, and melody is the soul of music.’ - Max Bruch

[thomaschatterton]

‘Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expressses, is art itself.’ - Eugène Delacroix

[artist-joseph-wright]

The Orrery, 1766, Joseph Wright

Medium: oil,canvas

[thomaschatterton]

Khatia Buniatishvili - Chopin - Prelude No 4 in E minor, Op 28

Support us on Patreon and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/classicalvault --- Frédéric ChopinPrelude No 4 in E minor, Op 28Khatia Buniatishvili, pia...

‘Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art’ - Frédéric Chopin

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Portrait of Miss Mary Payne, later Mrs. Dolphin, full-length, in an ivory gown, holding a thrush in her clasped hands (c.1820). Sir William Beechey (English, 1753-1839). Oil on canvas.

The unusual subject of the painting, with Mary holding a thrush and guarding it from an eagle, was inspired by Henry Hart Milman’s 1818 epic poem Samor, Lord of the Bright City. The poem includes a passage that matches how Beechey has depicted Mary Payne:           “Up the maiden gaz’d            Smiling a pale and terrified delight,            And seem’d for that lov’d warbler in her breast            Beseeching mercy.” Beechey has combined the full-length grandeur and elegance of royal portraits with loose brushwork on Mary’s gown and a dramatic wooded backdrop that helps evoke the legendary quality of Milman’s poem.

[thomaschatterton]

Medea, Frederick Sandys (1868).

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"Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"  - British anti-slavery campaign medallion designed by Josiah Wedgewood (1787).

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A stunning dramatic reading of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan (1797).

[thomaschatterton]

Later version, with new ornamentations.

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via wordsnquotes)

[thomaschatterton]

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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video made by The School of Life

[thomaschatterton]

Rapine, avarice, expense. This is idolatry; and these we adore; plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) The magic circle (1886)

oil on canvas - 182.9 × 127 cm Location: Tate Britain

[thomaschatterton]

Music in Time – The Romantic Collection - Essential Classics - BBC Radio 3

Sarah and Rob place a piece of music in its historical context.

[thomaschatterton]

What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal

Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)