Thursday, May 3, 2012

Lit Up

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~ Tertullian


Hope in a Prison of Despair
by Evelyn de Morgan

You Need Light In The Forest
by Mish Sukharev

Parisian Opera at night
by Ludwik de Laveaux (1868–1894)

The Proposition
by Judith Leyster (1609–1660)

Ship in Fog
by Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire

Market Square of Warsaw by Night
by Józef Pankiewicz (1866–1940)

Kunstbetrachtung bei Kerzenlicht
by Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706)

Links:

* The making of a Tiffany lamp
* A chandelier made of bones and skulls
* Ancient lamps

1 comment:

HWY said...

Beautiful works all...and they all seem to tell a story. Very interesting to figure out (or make up) what those stories are.