Art and ramblings

A collection of art and photography encompassing my particular affinity and fascination for Russian art, great cities, water in its many forms, flowers, the moon, lions and anything that catches my eye...very few ramblings really!

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galerie-martin:

Vincent van Gogh - Boerendorp in de avond, 1884. Oil on canvas. 57 x 82 cm (22.4” x 32.3”) — Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamFor more Fine Arts follow galerie mARTin.

"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other."

-Martin Luther King, Jr

- 7 April, 2013

A Young Astronomer (detail) 1685) Oliver van Deuren

The Lake, Petworth, Sunset (c1827-28) Joseph William Mallord Turner

labellefilleart:

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Distant Thoughts

artemisdreaming:

Above: Nocturne Grey and Gold - Canal, 1883-84 - James McNeill Whistler
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Softly the evening cameThe sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o’er the landscape Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together..
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline, 1847, Canto II - Part II

jaded-mandarin:

Nattier. Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (1726–1759), Later Duchesse d’Orléans.

books0977:

Självporträtt med modell / Selfportrait with model (1896). Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860–1920). Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
In 1896 the Zorns decided to move home to Sweden. The Zorns were intensely engaged in the welfare of the inhabitants of Mora. Emma Zorn established a reading society, a parish library, a children’s home, and the Mora domestic handicraft organisation. The largest gift to Mora was, however, the folk high school they established where young people from the community were educated.

artdetails:

Quentin Metsys, The Moneylender and his Wife (detail), 1514