“I will study my own heart —”
— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819
Federico Barocci - Portrait of A Young Lady, c. 1600 (detail), oil on canvas
“Wrap yourself in the mist. Look at the moon, nobody else, only the moon.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, from Complete Stories; “What The Moon Saw,”
Anna Plischke, Roses at a Creek
Ferdinand Keller
Phaeton in the chariot of the sun, 1822, Luigi Ricciardi
“Stay with me and help me to clothe my bitter thoughts in lovelier colours.”
— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819
Endymion, Alfred Thomas Porter
Byblos RTW Spring ‘19
“The bravest thing you could ever do is let someone hurt you and still talk beautiful about them.”
— (hatin)
Fernand Leger, 1952
Brush and India ink on paper
Stamped with the initials ‘F.L.’ (lower right)


