Missives from the Archives

From the diaries of the artist: «It was very difficult to work; I had to cut the brushes, make the bristle short, rub the colors was almost inconceivable. <… > The hand is cracking, it is breaking; the roaring hands refuse to serve. But you draw, all thirsty to put on the canvas these bizarre, gloomy, full of peculiar beauty paintings of the Far North» (source)

Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton in BRIDGERTON season 4 part 2

Young women from Kharkiv, 1921

Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting sun (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

It's because of how quickly quite a lot of people decided to call an academic and translator mean and condescending. She wasn't nice enough in telling everyone that she didn't like the Hollywood blockbuster adaptation of the story she's built her career thinking about. Incredible.

I’m really curious because I think there’s such a difference between 10 AM (morning to me) and 11 AM (early afternoon to me). Yes, I know the afternoon means AFTER NOON, but I’ve always considered 11 AM to be the start of midday.

"Shadows on the Balearic Sea" l Andrew McCarthy

happy thursday everyone