Reason For Beauty

01/07/2022

❄️ Day 10: "Woman in a Pergola with Wisteria" by Tiffany Studios 🪟

✨ Learn more:

This is a stained glass portrait window triptych. The side panels are of wisteria draped pillars of mottled and fractured glass and various layers. Each is backed wi …

12/08/2021

❄️ Day 9: "Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifarre" [Joseph and Potiphar's wife] by Prosperzia de’ Rossi 💪

Learn more:
✨ About the relief: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/r/rossi_p/joseph.html
✨ About the sculptor: https://www.basilicadisanpetronio.org/basilica/san-petronio-curiosities/properzia-de-rossi/

12/07/2021

❄️ Day 8: "Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major", Op. 78 by Joseph Joachim Raff, performed by Ariadne Daskalakis Music and Roglit Ishay 🎶

✨ Listen here: https://app.idagio.com/recordings/15691943
✨ Learn more about the composer: http://raff.org/biography/biography_sketch.html

12/06/2021

❄️ Day 7: "L'innocence" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau 🎨

Learn more:
✨ About the painting: https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-adolphe-bouguereau/innocence
✨ About the painter: https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/william-adolphe-bouguereau

‘Innocence’ was created by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in Academicism style. Find more prominent pieces of allegorical painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

12/05/2021

❄️ Day 5: "The Sun Went Down in Beauty" by George Marion McClellan 🖋️

The sun went down in beauty
Beyond the Mississippi side,
As I stood on the banks of the river
And watched its waters glide;
Its swelling currents resembling
The longing restless soul,
Surging, swelling, and pursuing
Its ever receding goal.

The sun went down in beauty,
But the restless tide flowed on,
And the phantom of absent loved ones
Danced on the waves and were gone;
Fleeting phantoms of loved ones,
Their faces jubilant with glee,
In the spray seemed to rise and beckon,
And then rush on to the sea.

The sun went down in beauty,
While I stood musing alone,
Stood watching the rushing river
And heard its restless moan;
Longings, vague, untenable,
So far from speech apart,
Like the endless rush of the river,
Went surging through my heart.

The sun went down in beauty,
Peacefully sank to rest,
Leaving its golden reflection
On the great Mississipi’s breast;
Gleaming on the turbulent river,
In the coming gray twilight,
Soothing its restless surging,
And kissing its waters goodnight.

Learn more:
✨ About the poem: This poem originally appeared in the poetry anthology 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 (1916) and is in the public domain.
✨ About the poet:

George Marion McClellan - George Marion McClellan was born on September 29, 1860, in Belfast, Tennessee. He received his bachelor’s and master’s...

12/03/2021

❄️ Day 4: 𝑇𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑎, opera in 3 acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto (in Italian) by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa 🎭

✨ About the opera: http://www.reasonforbeauty.com/arts/tosca/

Highlights:
✨ “Recondita armonia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAmI9quSrb8
✨ “Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGWgImVoUX4
✨ “E lucevan le stelle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RguXK2fe90c

12/02/2021

❄️ Day 3: "Pygmalion au pied de sa statue qui s'anime" [Pygmalion at the foot of his statue which comes alive] by Étienne-Maurice Falconet 💪

Learn more:
✨ About the sculpture: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010094256
✨ About the sculptor: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Etienne-Maurice-Falconet

Photos © Michel Urtado / Musée du Louvre

12/02/2021

❄️ Day 2: "Pohádka zimního večera" [Tale of a Winter’s Evening], Op. 9 by Josef Suk, performed by Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Petrenko 🎶

✨ Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0ENQiPCwC7MshxQF73RrLm
✨ Learn more about the composer: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921422

Josef Suk, Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko · Suk, J.: Ripening / Tale of Winter's Evening · Song · 2008

12/01/2021

Happy 1st of December! ☃️🎄 The is back! ✨

❄️ Day 1: "Romaine endormie" [Roman woman sleeping] by Félix Auguste Clément 🎨

Learn more:
✨ About the painting: https://arthistoryland.com/roman-woman-sleeping-felix-auguste-clement/
✨ About the painter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Auguste_Cl%C3%A9ment

In Roman Woman Sleeping, Felix Auguste Clement paints a full-length n**e woman sleeping on her bed.

03/20/2020

Looking for things you may have missed during the Month of Beauty? 🕵️‍♀️ Archives of posts from 2018 and 2019 are now easily accessible on Pinterest! 🤩 Feel free to explore the selections or revisit your favourites 😉 May the beauty of great art enrich and inspire in these uncertain times 🌈
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02/14/2020

Enjoy this selection of poems about romantic love:

Photos by Mehwash Bhatti Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘 Enjoy this selection of poems about romantic love… 1. “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie ...

01/31/2020

It's official – Mama Pho has the best pho in Oslo, Norway! 😋🥢

At a glance Newly opened Mama Pho makes enjoying delicious Vietnamese food in central Oslo both accessible and comfortable. Unlike many other Vietnamese restaurants, the menu is concise and straightforward and the atmosphere is open and friendly. Since the crew behind Mama Pho also runs TeaOlogy, yo...