Albayde By Alexandre Cabanel (1848)

Illustration to Milton`s Comus, 1820, William Blake

Medium: watercolor

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

“Seasons, four elements and human characters”, Isidore of Seville De natura rerum, undated ca. Middle Ages via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Odalisque by Henri Adrien Tanoux (1920)

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Illustration from Documents Decoratifs by Alphonse Mucha (1901)

Moonlight by Alphonse Mucha (1902)

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