Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892) (x)
Modern Rome - Campo Vacino 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
10 years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a veil of memory. The picture’s palette and shimmering light effects exemplify Turner at his most accomplished. When first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839, the painting was accompanied by a modified quotation from Lord Byron’s masterpiece, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: “The moon is up, and yet it is not night, the sun as yet divides the day with her.”
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So today my art teacher was instructing me on the proper way to prime a canvas and when he was finished talking I said “yes sir” and he just got this awful wounded puppy look on his face and was just like “oh… I wasn’t trying to boss you around…” and I tried to explain that I said that seriously and not sarcastically but.
VERY awKWARD
