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“Lucifer” by Franz von Stuck

∞09:45 am, by bigjellynet ∩11 | Comments

[lucifer] [dark] [evil] [stuck] [painting]

“Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth. I’ve always loved this painting.

∞09:14 am, by bigjellynet ∩16 | Comments

[wyeth] [field] [american] [painting] [girl]

Toni Morrison / Robert McCurdy, 2006 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; on loan from Ian and Annette Cumming

∞08:29 am, by bigjellynet Comments

[morrison] [american] [writer] [portrait] [painting]

“Ulysses and the Sirens” by Herbert James Draper

∞11:55 am, by bigjellynet ∩7 | Comments

[ulysses] [ship] [odyssey] [temptation] [epic] [sirens] [draper] [painting]

Julian Kolesov

∞01:11 pm, by bigjellynet Comments

[writing] [quill] [hand] [kolesov] [painting]

Hester Prynne | acrylic and oil on board | 11 x 16.5
An illustration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
By Jeremy Enecio

∞08:51 am, by bigjellynet ∩1 | Comments

[enecio] [painting] [literature] [hawthorne]

I first saw this painting, by Ivan Kramskoy, on the cover of Anna Karenina, I think. Very Russian.

∞08:27 am, by bigjellynet ∩4 | Comments

[kramskoy] [tolstoy] [woman] [proud] [russian] [painting]

“Angel” by Abbott Handerson Thayer. A beautiful image.

∞06:45 pm, by bigjellynet Comments

[angel] [thayer] [painting] [innocence]

Cormac McCarthy by Andrew Tift. The monochrome seems appropriate.

I finally saw the film adaptation of his novel The Road. I’ll read his Blood Meridian next.

∞06:39 pm, by bigjellynet Comments

[mccarthy] [portrait] [painting] [tift]

“Odysseus and the Laestrygonians” by J. C. Andrä.

∞04:23 pm, by bigjellynet Comments

[andra] [odysseus] [Laestrygonians] [odyssey] [cannibals] [homer] [epic] [painting]