ghirlandia.bsky.social
Curiouser and curiouser. Art and Literature
👤 Joined on 04 January 2025
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@ghirlandia.bsky.social🇬🇧 Villa Las Tronas, Alghero: built around 1880 on the ruins of a watchtower, royal summer residence until the 1940s, a hotel since 1961. 🇮🇹 Residenza estiva di Vittorio Emanuele III, hotel dal 1961. #Alghero #Sardinia #Travel #Hotel 📸 MICHOFF / Pixabay
Show PostYoung Woman with a Book (c. 1756-62) by Pietro Rotari (Italian artist, lived 1707–1762). An enigmatic smile, I wonder what she's reading? 'She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.'
Show PostButtercups (1889) by George Elgar Hicks (English artist, lived 1824–1914). A Victorian country child holding buttercups, a native wildflower.
Show Post"One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her." ("Une Saison en Enfer", 1873) Arthur Rimbaud was born #otd 1854 🎨 Gustave Moreau
Show PostGood morning ☀️ 🍂 🖌️John Sten “Höstlandskap,” 1906 #art #painting
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