Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Giovanni Luigi Valesio (1583-1633)...Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses...early 17th century



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"love is not so easily chastised"

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Dolorosa... pastel work...2012



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  "If Zeus don't charm" ~ 305x228 mm ~ pastel and pencil on paper

Goya, Francisco de...Subir y bajar...1799



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from "Los Caprichos"


Monday, October 8, 2012

Léon Bakst ... Narcisse... 1911


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Costume design for  'Narcisse' by Tcherepnin 1911 ~ watercolour


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Austin Osman Spare... Satyr c1920


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"By turning my head involuntary... I can always see my alter ego, familiars or the gang of elementals that partly constitute my being." AOS


from Austin Osman Spare, Fallen Visionary, Refractions published by Jerusalem Press


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Ex Libris... Italo Zetti (1913-1978)...1947



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Paolo Farinati...The Punishment of Marsyas...1573


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Agathias (c. 536-582 AD)
translated by Richard Garnett

Satyr, whose listening ear so low is bent
Breathes with spontaneous strain thine instrument?
Smiling and silent thou remainest bound
In silvery fetters of delightful sound;
For sure that lifelong figure here doth dwell
Fixed not by Painting's, but by Music's spell.