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ON MY SHELTERS DESTROYED: Poetry, by Paul Eluard

“Sur mes refuges détruits   Sur mes phares écroulés   Sur les murs de mon ennui   J’écris ton nom. “               “Sui miei rifugi distrutti  Sui miei fari crollati  Sui muri del mio tormento  Scrivo il tuo nome.” “On my shelters destroyed    On my headlights collapsed    On the walls of my …

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MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN: Poetry, by Gustave Flaubert

MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN “If I threw the grass and watched the stems bend to the breeze, and the waves beat the sand, here, I thought of her, I relived the heart every step, every gesture, every word. So it would be this, love? A “mental thing” that feeds the fire of imagination and asks for help to balms memory …

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JEAN CAROLUS (1814/1875) – Master of figures set within interior scenes

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WIND: Poetry, by Hugo Mujica

VIENTO “Viento y las nubes if deshacen; brisa y blancas if transfiguran. Hay ecos que no son de las palabras son of aliento, no nos repiten nos convocan to escuchar decirse para lo que nos llama.”     WIND “Wind and the clouds come apart; breeze and white are transfigured. There are echoes which are not of the words are …

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DONATO DE’ BARDI – Shades of Gothic and Renaissance Flemish in Genoa

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KAROLY BROCKY (1808/1855) – Vienna, Paris and London. Everywhere, its shades of ivory

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PAUL BIVA (1851/1900) – Realistic nuances of French naturalism

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IACOPO DE BARBARI (1460/1516): A painter and engraver of the Italian Renaissance, even beyond the Alps

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PEDRO AMERICO – The Brazilian pupil of Ingres, Flandrin and Vernet

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LOVE IMPOSSIBLE: Gustave Flaubert, by “The Sentimental Education”

  LOVE IMPOSSIBLE People “down-to-earth” they say that love is madness. In reality, what happens, is that fantasy violently distorted by pleasant images, where each step brings you closer to happiness, is starkly brought back to harsh reality. (Gustave Flaubert)

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