November 2009
Blake
It’s the birthday of William Blake, (books by this author) born in London (1757). He wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). He lived in poverty, ignorant of the rest of the literary world of London, scraping out a living from his trade as an engraver and writing and drawing under inspiration he considered divine. He said about his long poem...
Mona Lisa in book cover art →
libraryland:gouachegalatea:
I’m not sure why I’ve never been a big fan of the Mona Lisa. But I find the use of cultural symbols interesting.
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