Karen Blixen | L'Incontro

Ah, quando sei lontano e nessuno

più nomina il tuo nome -

quando ovunque mi rechi sento

cupo e gelido un vuoto -

comincio a credere che tu sia solo un sogno

nato dalle brame della mia mente,

Charles-Amable Lenoir | Reverie, 1893

Vincent van Gogh | A Walk at Twilight, 1889-1890

A Walk at Twilight or Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon is an intriguing composite of common themes found in works throughout Van Gogh's career, but at the same time some specific characteristics set it aside from other paintings.

Olive trees and cypresses are often portrayed in paintings from Van Gogh's Saint-Rémy period.

But the trees in Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon are less imposing and less intricately detailed.

Van Gogh's cypresses are famous, but those seen in the current work appear in the distance almost as an afterthought, lacking the majesty and turbulence that so often characterize Van Gogh's cypress trees.

Camille Corot | The Barbizon school of painters

Of Camille Corot Claude Monet exclaimed: "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing".

His contributions to figure painting are hardly less important; Degas preferred his figures to his landscapes, and the classical figures of Picasso pay overt homage to Corot's influence.

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore | Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima"

"Una furtiva lagrima" (A furtive tear) is the romanza from act 2, scene 8 of the Italian opera L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti.

It is sung by Nemorino (tenor) when it appears that the love potion he bought to win the heart of his dream lady, Adina, is working.

He loves Adina, but she is not interested in an innocent, rustic man such as he.

Ponziano Loverini | Portrait of Gaetano Doninzetti, 1877

Yary Dluhos, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Yary Dluhos was born in an area of the Czech Republic considered by many to be a center of culture, the city of Olomouc.

Strongly influenced by the historical and picturesque ambiance of her native Olomouc, she soon began to paint and draw early in her childhood.

All her formative years spent drawing and painting finally culminated with her acceptance to the renowned art school in Uherski Hradiste, in the Czech Republic.