Amiens Cathedral, France 1220-1236 
by Robert Deluzarches 
   


 


FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Cloister Cemetery in the Snow
1817-19 Oil on canvas 121 x 170 cmDestroyed 1945, formerly in the National Gallery, Berlin



Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night,
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889 
Oil on canvas  73 x 92 cm.
Post Impressionist

Caspar David Friederich, 
Cloister Cemetery in the Snow
1817-19 Oil on canvas 121 x 170 cm
Destroyed 1945, 
formerly in the National Gallery, Berlin
only black and white and poor color images survived
German Romantic Painter (Romanticism)

 


FUSELI,Henry 1741-1825 The Nightmare (Incubus) 1781-82
located in Detroit
Fuseli was born Swiss and then moved and worked in England

Franz Schubert 1797-1828
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ERLKÖNIG - J.W. von Goethe

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
 

Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?--
Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?
Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif?--
Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif.--
 

«Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!
Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir;
Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,
Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand.»
 

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,
Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht?--
Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind;
In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind.--
 

«Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?
Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön;
Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn,
Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.»
 
 
 
 

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort
Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort?--
Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau:
Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau.--
 

«Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.»
Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!
Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!--
 

Dem Vater grausets, er reitet geschwind,
Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not;
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

English translation by Natalia MacFarren

Who rides through the night o'er woodland wild?
It is a father with his young child;
The boy lies folded, close in his arm
He holds him steady and safe from harm..
 

"My son, thou hidest thy face as in fear?"
"The Erl King father, see he is near!
With Crown and Sceptre and snow white shroud"
"My son, 'tis but a passing cloud."
 

"My gentle boy, Oh come with me;
I'll sport and play the day long with thee
And wondrous flowers shalt thou behold
And a garment shalt thou wear all of Gold."
 
 

"My father, my father, Oh dost thou not hear
What Erl-King whispers so soft in mine ear?"
"Nay, fear not, it is nothing my child,
The leaves but rustle sharp o'er the wild."
 

"Thou gentle boy wilt thou with me go
My daughters all pretty pastimes know,
My daughters nightly their gay revels keep,
They'll dance and they'll sing and they'll rock thee to sleep.
They'll dance and they'll sing and they'll rock thee to sleep."
 

"My father, my father, I feel sore afraid
See Erl-King's daughters in yon dark shade!"
"My son, my son, I see it full well;
The grey knotted willows bend to the gale."
 
 

"I love thee, child, in vain wouldst thou now be perverse,
For if thou'rt not willing, I'll take thee by force"
"My father! My father! His cold hand I feel
Erl-King has hurt me; With grasp of steel"
 

The fa-ther shudd'ring; gives spur to his steed,
Holds fast his darling and groans in his need,
He reached his home in doubt and dread,
Within his fond arms the child lay dead.

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Musical Art
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FUSELI,Henry 1741-1825 The Nightmare (Incubus) 1781-82
located in Detroit
Fuseli was born Swiss and then moved and worked in England

FUSELI,Henry 1741-1825 The Nightmare (Incubus) 1781-82
located in Detroit
Fuseli was born Swiss and then moved and worked in England

Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892
Oil on burlap mounted on canvas 
28 1/2 x 36 3/8 in. 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY


Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892
Oil on burlap mounted on canvas 28 1/2 x 36 3/8 in. (72.4 x 92.4 cm)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY



 


Paul Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) 1888
Oil on canvas  (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in) National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh


Early Christian/Byzantine, Vienna Genesis Manuscript Jacob and Angel c525CE



 
 
 
 


Paul Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) 1888
Oil on canvas  (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in) National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Early Christian/Byzantine, Vienna Genesis Manuscript
Jacob and Angel c525CE
Paul Gauguin, Ia Orana Maria (We Hail Thee Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas 44 3/4 x 34 1/2 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 
 
 
 
Jean-François Millet
L'Angélus, 1857-1859, 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

 
Jean-François Millet, 
Keeper of the Herd, 1871