Aesthetica Ludens

Photo by Joshua Weiner

Château de Muzot (also known as Maison Muzot or Muzot Castle) is a 13th-century fortified manor house located near Veyras in Switzerland’s Rhone Valley. In 1921, it was purchased by Swiss merchant and arts patron Werner Reinhart who then invited Rilke to live there rent-free. It was at Muzot, during a few weeks in February 1922, that Rilke after a long silence caused by severe depression finally completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the entire Sonnets to Orpheus (source).

untitled by heddaselder on Flickr.

La Guardiana del Huevo negro by Leonor Fini, 1955. Oil on canvas.

Phillips Collection, Washington

Månglitter by Sven Jonson, 1948. Oil on canvas.

"The Temptation os St Anthony", Hieronymous Bosch. c.1516

Durer self-portrait at the age of thirteen - Albrecht Dürer