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Song of the Forest, 1963, Viktor Ivchenko

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Vincenzo Travino ,  L'homme qui aimait les femmes

Model: Hérodiade Chatnoir

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For now you behold the eternal truth,

The world behind the mirrors of your youth.

-Psyche

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Carl Friedrich Seiffert (1808-1891) - Die Blaue Grotte auf Capri, 1860

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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. 

Artemis: It’s the last line of the Inferno - Canto XXXIV - Dante Alighieri                        

We mounted up, he first and I the second, Till I beheld through a round aperture Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear; Thence we came forth to behold the stars again.

Image:  Inferno, Canto 34, Gustave Dorè

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antonio marras, 1996

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Yoshitaka Amano

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July 4, 2018

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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. 

Artemis: It’s the last line of the Inferno - Canto XXXIV - Dante Alighieri                        

We mounted up, he first and I the second, Till I beheld through a round aperture Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear; Thence we came forth to behold the stars again.

Image:  Inferno, Canto 34, Gustave Dorè

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Guido Schmitt      Orpheus in the underworld    1905

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The Blood of a Poet (1930)

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Asking the Stars by Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach.

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Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus, 1900, John William Waterhouse

Medium: oil,canvas

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miniature test version of my new painting (Venus with flaming heart) in progress

oil on paper

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The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.