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sau·da·de

/souˈdädə/

noun

desire to be near someone or something distant; a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia

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Salvador Dalí 

 Birth of Venus, 1979

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Olga

Pablo Picasso

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Ph. Henry Cartier Bresson

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Riddarholmen, Stockholm (by Jon Flobrant)

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Angel playing the lute, Rosso Fiorentino, 1521

Oil on wood panel 39.5 x 47 cm (15.55 x 18.5 in.) Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

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Libreria Piccolomini - Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral, Siena (Tuscany, Italy), founded in 1495

The cycle of frescoes was painted by Pinturicchio, maybe helped by the young Raphael. It depicts episodes of the life of Pope Pius II.

The central sculpture of the Three Graces is a Roman copy of a Greek original that inspired a lot of artists such as Antonio Canova.

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Casa Batllo, Barcelona (by Theodor Vasile)

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Prague (by Manuel Zaldivar)

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Springtime, 1873, and The Storm, 1880, by Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883)

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“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”

Rilke.

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Eruption of Vesuvius with Destruction of a Roman City (1824) - Sebastian Pether

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View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome by Ippolito Caffi

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The Eruption of Vesuvius (details) by Sebastian Pether (British, 1790 - 1844)

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The Trevi Fountain, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, between 1748 and 1774