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Cat by Gwen John (1876 — 1939), graphite and watercolor on paper, (circa 1908) Tate Collection, London.

Pink and white striped Carnation, depicting the life cycle of the moth, 1691-1699 By Maria Sybilla Merian (British Museum)

Francisco Antonio Gijón Saint John of the Cross / San Juan de la Cruz, 1675 Made for the Carmelite convent of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, #Sevilla

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Emblem book, Flemish, 1685-86. Meekness: a nun wearing a laurel wreath, caressing an elephant that stands behind her. (British Museum)

#magnolia

Anna Magnani and James Mason at the Venice Film Festival, 1956.

Still Life with Watermelon and Pemegranates

Still Life with Watermelon and Pemegranates, 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13529

#BirdOfTheDay

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~C.S. Lewis
🎨Jane Crowther

View of the beach at Bellangenai

View of the beach at Bellangenai
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12578

Gertrude Stein hanging out with the Cone sisters.

Thank you for your bucolic posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday

art by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1767)

In October 1888, Gauguin arrived in Arles in southern France, where Vincent van Gogh was already staying. Throughout the autumn, the two artists lived and worked together. Tension arose and grew between them, leading to the dramatic crisis when van Gogh cut off part of his ear after a vicious quarrel. In his landscapes from Arles, such as this one, Gauguin depicts nature as decorative fields of colour without any illusion of depth. Some sections are enigmatic – note, for instance, the shadow cast by the dog in the corner!

Landscape from Arles
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/58729

Tennessee Williams

I'm enjoying Leighton Pugh's audiobook of 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. He uses the 1864 translation by R. Dillon Boylan, which captures Goethe's tone and diction to a surprising degree:

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The Window

The Window, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16103

Album cover Painting of a marching band musician with a tuba

The 1958 Philips recording of Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera featured a Ben Shahn painting on the cover.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Zm...

Weill with his pipe; Lenya leaning against the table-top

Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya
A marvellous portrait by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, from 1935

The two were married from 1926 until Weill's death in 1950, with a divorce time-out from 1933-37.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orD...

View of the Catskills over the frozen Hudson

Submissions open March 1. Send us your strongest poems and be part of the next issue!

Victor Hugo, considéré comme le père du romantisme, est né le 26 février 1802. Il a su accepter les malheurs de sa vie pour les transformer en une expérience existentielle et saisir les valeurs et les nuances de l'âme humaine.

Sudden and magnificent, the sun’s broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them;

The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame

Annie Soudain #WyrdWednesday

Hook Mountain, Nyack - 1899
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105355

Hans Hoffmann, A Hare in the Forest, about 1585. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

Roman mosaic fragment of a cockerel from Italy. Dating to around 100 BC, the fragment is part of the collections at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

23 Feb 1663: John Dryden's first play 'The English Gallant' is performed at Court #otd

This fresco, "Marriage at Cana" by Giotto di Bondone, vividly captures the biblical scene where Jesus performs his first miracle of turning water into wine. Painted in the Scrovegni Chapel, it showcases Giotto's innovative use of perspective and emotional expression, marking a significant moment in early Renaissance art.

Marriage at Cana https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/marriage-at-cana

Frontispiece for Francis Lawrence Bickley's 

"The Adventures of Harlequin"

by John Austen, 1923.

#goldenageofillustration #bookillustration

22 Feb 1572: William Byrd sworn in as gentleman of Chapel Royal #otd (British Museum)

The Prodigal Son among the Swine

Rembrandt Van Rijn, c. 1650 (British Museum)