Buon Anno a tutti
Siate felici con voi stessi
Amate l’alba, il mezzodì, il tramonto e la notte
Vivete i minuti come se fossero eternità
e l’eternità trasformata in un secondo
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I don't like to put labels on things
I've met a lot of pinup girls,
but I've never been able to pin one down.
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A Challenge To Admiration (1926)
by Rolf Armstrong *
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* painter of pin-up art.
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Eros (Cupid) brought by Peitho (Persuasion) to Venus
as Anteros laughs at his being punished for having chosen
the wrong target.
From the tablinum in the House of Punished Love in Pompeii.
1st century AD
fresco
Naples National Archaeological Museum. Italy
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Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.
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Shakespeare
Sonnet 116
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Evening landscape ( Landscape at Dusk )
by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Painting made in Nuenen, April 1885
[ After the death of his father ]
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - Spain
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The Girl I Left Behind Me* (ca 1872)
by Eastman Johnson
Smithsonian American Art Museum -Washington DC
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Note: Johnson called this painting The Girl I Left Behind Me, invoking an Irish ballad that was popular with both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War
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Beau soir
Janine Jansen (violinist)
Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin & Piano, L. 140 - 1. Allegro vivace
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Painting ...
Prelude du soir
Alfonso Savini (1836-1908)
Private collection
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Portrait of a man playing flute (circa 1525)
by Girolamo Savoldo (circa 1480 - after 1548)
Tosio Martinengo Gallery, Brescia - Italy
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Note: masterpiece, for a number of reasons
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Calypso, her words had wings:
“ The gods are harsh and far too jealous
more so than others. They are unhappy
if goddesses make mortal men their partners
and take them to bed for sex. “
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Homer
Odyssey
Book V
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Portrait
Isabella Rossellini
by Terry O'Neill
1984
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
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Note: Now are all the rage the selfies, but f you truly wish
a beautiful portrait, well, then, get yourself a good photographer.
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Good Morning, Dear Tweeps
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Woman Reading (circa 1879-81)
by Édouard Manet
Art Institute of Chicago - Illinois, USA
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Note: Woman Reading is a painting done quickly.
Signed lower left: Manet
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Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies), 1883
composed by Giacomo Puccini
libretto by Ferdinando Fontana
Prelude
Note: Le Villi is Puccini's first stage work
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Painting: Le Villi (1906)
by Bartolomeo Giuliano
Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan
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