Canvas Wings

Patrick Wolf

Buffy Saint Marie

Nico/ Christa Päffgen

Thumbelina illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

Apollo by Dossi, Dosso, 1524 Oil on canvas, 1194 x 118 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome This painting was probably commissioned by Alfonso d’Este and may allude to his love affair with the lady-in-waiting Laura Dianti, after the death of his wife, Lucrezia Borgia, in 1519. The painting was inspired by the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Apollo is singing his love for Daphne and interrupts his performance at the moment when the nymph is transformed into a laurel tree (allusion to Laura) in the landscape on the left. Apollo accompanies his song on a viola da braccio, the instrument played by Duke Alfonso
Apollo by Dossi, Dosso, 1524

Oil on canvas, 1194 x 118 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome

This painting was probably commissioned by Alfonso d’Este and may allude to his love affair with the lady-in-waiting Laura Dianti, after the death of his wife, Lucrezia Borgia, in 1519. The painting was inspired by the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Apollo is singing his love for Daphne and interrupts his performance at the moment when the nymph is transformed into a laurel tree (allusion to Laura) in the landscape on the left. Apollo accompanies his song on a viola da braccio, the instrument played by Duke Alfonso

centuriespast: Illustrated title page by Aubrey Beardsley, from Wilde’s Salome: A Tragedy in One Act(London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894).The Morgan Library

centuriespast:

Illustrated title page by Aubrey Beardsley, from Wilde’s Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
(London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894).
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centuriespast: Louis-Roland Trinquesse (ca. 1745–ca. 1800)Study of a Lady of Fashion the Morgan Library

centuriespast:

Louis-Roland Trinquesse (ca. 1745–ca. 1800)
Study of a Lady of Fashion

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