Friday, June 16, 2006


"Take away love and our earth is a tomb. "


Robert Browning

9 comments:

QUASAR9 said...

Wow! never truer words spoken.
Some try to bury love, but you cannot bury love. However if love is absent, then ...

Magic Painting! - Laters ...Q

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i liked the painting so much that i have it printed out and framed on my desk here. it touches me.

QUASAR9 said...

When I read the first line:

"I liked the painting so much ..."

like a certain shaver advert:
"I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company" I thought you were going to add:

" I liked the painting so much ... I bought it" -
It is magical a magical painting. Q

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i could never afford this painting, but i love it and the subject matter.

QUASAR9 said...

I can see, I'm gonna keep coming back to this one. Not sure where I've seen it. Maybe we had it at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, for a while. Maybe it's still there. Must go + see. Q

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i think it's poussin

QUASAR9 said...

Yep, that's what you've got it under. Cannot be sure if they had it here for a while. Being one of those that sticks in one's mind. I really must go and find out if they had on exhibit, or if its one of the permanent exhibits. BG'd probably know, she seems to know her way roung galleries. Q

QUASAR9 said...

Its at the Detroit Institute of Art

http://www.dia.org/asp/search/ExecuteSearch.asp?artist=Nicolas%20Poussin

"Selene & Endyom" I'm sure we had it at the Fitz (Fitzwilliam Museum) Cambridge or the National Gallery, London, or, or, ...
maybe I just saw it in a book. But I have the image large in my head. lol! Laters Q

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i knew it was selene, but i had forgotten the artist for a bit.

i have a silver pendant with selene on it, a mother's day gift a few years ago from my daughter.