Luis Paret y Alcázar (Spanish, 1746-1799) Circunspección de Diógenes, 1780 Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid Diogenes was sunning himself in a grove near Corinth when Alexander The Great, having heard of his reputation as a sage, came out to meet him. Standing over him, Alexander said, “Ask whatever you wish of me!” Diogenes replied, “Stand out of my light.” Alexander said, “If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."
Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
Antonio Canova
1793.
William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Le Printemps (The Return of Spring), 1886
Mia Wasikowska bts Jane Eyre, 2011
Edward John Poynter (1836-1919, British) ~ The Vision of Endymion, 1902
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the tempest (1979) directed by derek jarman
"Oh, how beauteous mankind is. O brave new world that has such people in it."
Caravaggio