Tag: springtime
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left.…
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Melissa Sullivan – “Fade”
Poet and artist Melissa Sullivan reflects on the impermanence of all things in this short, moving springtime poem. Fade All blooms decayPersephone speaks from her Stygian palaceBright blooms are briefDelicate and easily bruisedWe gather our flowers in MayBut we must accept that they too shall fade About Meliss Sullivan Melissa Sullivan is a hedge-wandering art…