19th Century Post

Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856 - 1910)

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:24:00 +0000

The Swan Princess - 1900

by Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel

(Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:01:00 +0000

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you -- Nobody -- Too?

Then there's a pair of us!

Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!

How public -- like a Frog --

To tell one's name -- the livelong June --

To an admiring Bog!

~Emily Dickinson

Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889)

Thu, 26 May 2011 07:56:00 +0000

Albaydé - 1848

by Alexandre Cabanel

(Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France)

Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:24:00 +0000

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

~Khalil Gibran

Fashion Plate - ca 1847

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:22:00 +0000

Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856 - 1910)

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Demon Seated in a Garden - 1890

by Mikhail Vrubel

(Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 -1909)

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:29:00 +0000

Algernon Charles Swinburne

(Sketch by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Sorrow

SORROW, on wing through the world for ever,

Here and there for awhile would borrow

Rest, if rest might haply deliver

Sorrow.

One thought lies close in her heart gnawn thorough

With pain, a weed in a dried-up river,

A rust-red share in an empty furrow.

Hearts that strain at her chain would sever

The link where yesterday frets to-morrow:

All things pass in the world, but never

Sorrow.

~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844 - 1930)

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:44:00 +0000

Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom - 1876

by Ilya Yefimovich Repin

(The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:02:00 +0000

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

~John Ruskin

1824 Fashion Plate...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:22:00 +0000