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A Look at Inspiration in She Walks in Beauty
Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...
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Counting our Own Hours: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
Because he died so young, Keats' poetry is often read biographically. Readers usually come to the consensus that his death at 25 years of age robbed the world of one of its greatest writers. And Keats certainly thought his early death...
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Great Art Cities Explained: Paris
In the second of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they look at less well known museums in cities around the world. In "Great Art Cities Explained: Paris", we look at three small...
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Portugal, Sintra - Monserrate Palace
According some legends there was a chapel dedicated to Virgin built by Afonso Henriques after the reconquest of Sintra. On its ruins another chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Monserrate was constructed on the top of the hill In 1540. The...
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Portugal, Sintra - Pena Palace
The castle's history started in the Middle Ages when a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena was built on the top of the hill above Sintra. According to tradition, construction occurred after an apparition of the Virgin Mary. In 1493,...
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Drugs and Poetry: Kubla Khan
Inspiration can be cruel, and artists often feel lost without it. And when it won't show up, which will happen, creative types turn to a myriad of restorative methods: running, isolation, reading, and, most infamously, drugs. But while...
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The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery. In its brutality,...
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Portugal, Sintra National Palace
The history of the castle begins in the Moorish Al-Andalus era, after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th century, when Sintra had two castles. One was located atop of a hill overlooking Sintra. It is known as the Castelo dos...
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The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe
Famous American author Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting death may have been a result of cooping, a violent form of voter fraud practiced in the 19th century.
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Legacy: Ozymandious
Ozymandias is a narrative sonnet about a traveler who found a broken statue of Ozymandias in the dessert. While initially quite confusing, the the poem shows Percy Shelley at his best: bringing low the ambitious dictators of the world.
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Romanticism Explained Through Paintings
This is just one example of how you can use visual art to examine literary Romanticism. Main elements of Romanticism: Love of Nature Focus on Emotion Fascination with the Sublime Individualistic Byronic Heroes Interest in the...
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Portugal, Sintra - Quinta da Regaleira Palace
The Regaleira Palace bears the same name as the entire estate. The structure's facade is characterized by exuberantly Gothic pinnacles, gargoyles, capitals, and an impressive octagonal tower. The palace contains five floors .The ground...
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The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...
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Benjamin Bernheim stuns at the Salzburg Festival with an intimate recital
On stage, the tenor Benjamin Bernheim often incarnates the role of the lover and he remained true to this at his recital at the Salzburg Festival singing songs from Brahms to Britten and praising love to the highest tones.
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William Wordsworth Home and Grave
Tourists visit the Poet Wordsworth home / Tombstone of Wordsworth in Grasmere / English Lake District / William Wordsworth Home and Grave on September 01, 1955 in Grasmere, England (Footage by Getty Images)
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Couple's shadows projection kissing and hugging
Couple's shadows projection kissing and hugging
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Valentine's day - 2
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flirting
young woman with red hair leans against the railing of a bridge, a passing men blinks at her
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Cheers for our relationship.
Happy young couple celebrating their relationship in a beautiful sunny day.
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MS ZO Arched entryway to Edicule of Holy Sepulchre / Jerusalem, Israel
MS ZO Arched entryway to Edicule of Holy Sepulchre / Jerusalem, Israel