European Art and Literature Thread

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>When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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>Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.

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>>135040318

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
>Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

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>>135040711

very comfy to look at, saved

The best summer of my life, I was 15 and spent it at Harvard taking English 101 with an actual professor (not MArxist scum) who had been taught by Tolkien and knew Yeats. I memorized from "Sir Gaiwain and The Green Knight" to "The Wasteland" and can still repeat them all today.

If any of you are15 or 16 (you aren't meant to be on here), don't know if you have the shekels but see if you can do it next summer. Looks very good on your college app, esp if you can crawl up the professor's ass and see who is teaching it, make sure it's not a marxist or a dyke.
There aren't professors like that, at least not that I'm aware. Who read Beowulf and Chaucer in the original Old English. The Jews have ruined the fucking humanities.

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Wow..

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>Fredrick the Great composed this symphony
>He was a great military commander as well as a talented flautist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AJoLXPtkHI

This is (imo) the greatest "historical" poem in the English language. The story of Don Jon of Austria going to fight the Turk and destroy their fleet. It's so densely packed that if you don't know the story and don't have a good vocab, it will take you ~1.5 hours just to unpack, but worth it.

The Jews would never let this be taught today of course, because it's about Europeans taking up the sword for Christendom and crushing the Turk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFY8B6vgPI

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>>135040961
thank you (I haven't seen your art posts before, saving)

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>>135040961
Came to post some Friedrich myself.

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>>135038167
"Thyself briefly remember. The sword is out that will destroy thee."
King Lear

I don't even want to look at European art, because if we don't move it somewhere safe the odds are we're going to live to see it be destroyed by sledgehammer.

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>>135041591
My apologies for the low quality reproductions.

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>>135042098
Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel.

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what would European art be without it's beautiful real life inspirations

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“So it isn’t the masses who are to blame for demanding rubbish, but rather those who aren’t capable of providing them with anything else.”

>>135038167
I do like Withnail and I

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“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.”

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>>135038167
Non Merci, Cyrano de Bergerac
"To dream, to laugh, to move on, to be free, on my own
To have a keen eye and a voice of strong tone,
Wear my hat awry as I prefer,
For no reason at all engage in combat or pen a verse!
To work without worry of glory or fortune
Such a voyage of which we dream to the moon!
Pen not a line that from myself departs
And comes from anywhere except straight from my heart,
Be satisfied with flowers, leaves, fruits of the land
If they're in your own garden and grew by your hand!
And, if at all, you should triumph by chance,
Don't give unto Cesar, take up your stance
Stand up for yourself, you merit, 'ti's thee
In short, the parasitic ivy I disdain to be
So even without the tree or the stone
I won't get very high, perhaps, but alone!"

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>>135038167
Seventh Seal
Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.
Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?
Death: I have no secrets.
Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?
Death: I am unknowing.

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Scots Greys

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Sie sollen ihn nicht haben,
Den freien deutschen Rhein,
Ob sie wie gier’ge Raben
Sich heiser danach schrein,

Solang er ruhig wallend
Sein grünes Kleid noch trägt,
Solang ein Ruder schallend
In seine Woge schlägt!

Sie sollen ihn nicht haben,
Den freien deutschen Rhein,
Solang sich Herzen laben
An seinem Feuerwein;

Solang in seinem Strome
Noch fest die Felsen stehn,
Solang sich hohe Dome
In seinem Spiegel sehn!

Sie sollen ihn nicht haben,
Den freien deutschen Rhein,
Solang dort kühne Knaben
Um schlanke Dirnen frei’n;

Solang die Flosse hebet
Ein Fisch auf seinem Grund,
Solang ein Lied noch lebet
In seiner Sänger Mund!

Sie sollen ihn nicht haben,
Den freien deutschen Rhein,
Bis seine Flut begraben
Des letzten Manns Gebein!

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A hard to find (in regards to a google image search) Odilon Redon now at a gallery in Köln.

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>>135038167
Excerpts from Under Ben Bulben by W.B. Yeats

"Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man dies in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,
A brief parting from those dear
Is the worst man has to fear.
Though grave-diggers' toil is long,
Sharp their spades, their muscle strong,
They but thrust their buried men
Back in the human mind again."
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"Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate
Know his work or choose his mate."
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"Irish poets learn your trade
Sing whatever is well made,
Scorn the sort now growing up
All out of shape from toe to top,
Their unremembering hearts and heads
Base-born products of base beds.
Sing the peasantry, and then
Hard-riding country gentlemen,
The holiness of monks, and after
Porter-drinkers' randy laughter;
Sing the lords and ladies gay
That were beaten into the clay
Through seven heroic centuries;
Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry."
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"Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid,
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago; a church stands near,
By the road an ancient Cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase,
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:

Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!"

>>135044044
I really like the surface texture (thanks for the post)

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OH MAN LOOK AT THE HAIR

the texture is insane. holy fuck

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>>135038167
Fun fact: many negative figures are actually the painter's business partners. One pharisee takes after his manager.

>>135044514
I really like those insect eyes

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>>135038167
Nessun Dorma, Performed by Pavarotti

Lyrics translation:
"None shall sleep! None shall sleep! You too, princess,
In your cold room
You watch the stars
Trembling of love and hope...

But the mistery of me is locked inside of me
No one will know my name!
No, no, I will say it on your mouth,
When the light will shine!
And my kiss will melt the silence
that makes you mine.

(Choir, voices of women:)
No one will know my name...
And we will, unfortunately, have to die, die!

(Calaf, the unknown prince:)
Leave, oh night! Set, stars!
Set, stars! At sunrise I will win!
I will win! I will win!"

https://youtu.be/VATmgtmR5o4?t=27

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>>135040440
Will you post sources ples?

to be or not to be

that's the question, innit

whether 'tis nobler to be a cuck and watch

as your wife gets fucked by a big black cock

or to take arms against a sea of niggers

and by opposing get put in reeducation camp

Ronsard warning roasties in the XVIth century:

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avoit déclose
Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil,
A point perdu cette vesprée (old spelling for vêprée)
Les plis de sa robe pourprée,
Et son teint au vôtre pareil.
Las ! voyez comme en peu d’espace,
Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
Las ! las ses beautés laissé choir !
Ô vraiment marâtre Nature,
Puis qu’une telle fleur ne dure
Que du matin jusques au soir ! (old way for jusqu’au)

Donc, si vous me croyez, mignonne,
Tandis que votre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte nouveauté,
Cueillez, cueillez vôtre jeunesse :
Comme à cette fleur la vieillesse
Fera ternir votre beauté.

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>>135046105
[poetry1-adblock]

1- Poem:

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avoit déclose
Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil,
A point perdu cette vesprée (old spelling for vêprée)
Les plis de sa robe pourprée,
Et son teint au vôtre pareil.
Las ! voyez comme en peu d’espace,
Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
Las ! las ses beautés laissé choir !
Ô vraiment marâtre Nature,
Puis qu’une telle fleur ne dure
Que du matin jusques au soir ! (old way for jusqu’au)

Donc, si vous me croyez, mignonne,
Tandis que votre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte nouveauté,
Cueillez, cueillez vôtre jeunesse :
Comme à cette fleur la vieillesse
Fera ternir votre beauté.

ronsard.jpg2- Translation:

Sweetheart, let’s see if the rose
That this morning had open
Her crimson dress to the Sun,
This evening hasn’t lost
The folds of her crimson dress,
And her complexion similar to yours.

Ah! See how in such short space
My sweetheart, she has on this very spot
All her beauties lost!
O, so un-motherly Nature,
Since such a beautiful flower
Only last from dawn to dusk!

So if you believe me, my sweetheart,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Do take advantage of your youthful bloom:
As it did to this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.

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>>135046210
Thanks for translation, wish i could read the original is French a good language to learn?

>>135044013
This is good, who is it? Recommendation for German Lit/poetry?

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Some Sorolla

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>>135042299
At least the Venus de Milo doesn't <pic related>

Oops, that one is by R. Casas >>135046711

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What a world to die for.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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>>135047093
Nice.

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I think bouguereau was a feet fag, but that's ok

>>135047093

woah, love this one

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Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso,
áspero, tierno, liberal, esquivo,
alentado, mortal, difunto, vivo,
leal, traidor, cobarde y animoso:

no hallar fuera del bien centro y reposo,
mostrarse alegre, triste, humilde, altivo,
enojado, valiente, fugitivo,
satisfecho, ofendido, receloso:

huir el rostro al claro desengaño,
beber veneno por licor süave,
olvidar el provecho, amar el daño:

creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe;
dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño,
¡esto es amor! quien lo probó lo sabe.

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To pass out, to dare, to be furious,
Hard, tender, generous, elusive,
Emboldened, mortal, dead, alive,
Loyal, treacherous, cowardly and undaunted:

To find neither meaning nor rest beyond the bounds of good,
To act now sanguine, now sad, now humble, now haughty,
Irate, courageous, fugitive,
Satiated, offended, suspicious:

To turn your back at blatant disappointment,
To drink of venom as though it were nectar,
To forgo gain, to love harm:

To believe there is heaven in hell,
To surrender your life and soul to disappointment,
That’s what love is; he who drank of it knows it.

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Great thread, thanks

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>>135038167
I would really like to share with you parts of the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri but it's impossible to translate it into english. It would just tell you what it is about, but it would lose all its musicality and perfection.

The Comedia is divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Dante imagines to make a journey, while alive, through all of them in that order lead by various figures in each area, where he meets historical figures or people of his time which he imagines dead (there are a lot of historical judgments from his parts and political allegories as well).
In hell the language is easy to understand and very day-to-day like, and as he ascends the choices of words and figures of speech become increasingly harder to understand and more and more cultured, to symbolize his journey getting nearer to God.
In the end he finds God but his beauty and power blind him, while fulfilling him with music and harmony.

Each part is made of 33 chapters, and each of the parts end with the word "Stelle", stars.

This thing alone makes learning italian worth it. If you're sensitive to beauty and art, the Divina Commedia can make you weep of joy. Really.

«Ma già volgeva il mio disìo e il velle,
sì come rota ch'igualmente è mossa,
l'Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. »
(Heaven, vv. 143-145)

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#best breed

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>The Codex Amiatinus, designated by siglum A, is the earliest surviving manuscript of the complete Latin Vulgate version[1] of the Catholic Bible. For the books of the New Testament, and most of the Old Testament, it is commonly considered to provide the most reliable surviving representation of Jerome's Vulgate text. As was standard in all Vulgate bibles until the 9th century, the Book of Baruch is absent as is the Letter of Jeremiah, the Book of Lamentations following on from Jeremiah without a break.[2] It was produced in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria as a gift for the Pope, and dates to the start of the 8th century. The Codex is also a fine specimen of medieval calligraphy, and is now kept at Florence in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Amiatino 1)

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John donne - Meditation XVII

PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another. As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all; but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness. There was a contention as far as a suit (in which both piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled), which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

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will post some art nouveau architecture here

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>>135047921
Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money, his treasure will not defray him as he travels. Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, that tells me of his affliction, digs out and applies that gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security.

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Thanks

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>>135047626

thanks for sharing, very fascinating

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whats your opinion on art nouveau by the way?

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Salmo
Miré los muros de la patria mía,
si un tiempo fuertes, ya desmoronados,
de la carrera de la edad cansados,
por quien caduca ya su valentía.

Salíme al campo; vi que el sol bebía
los arroyos del yelo desatados,
y del monte quejosos los ganados,
que con sombras hurtó su luz al día.

Entré en mi casa; vi que, amancillada,
de anciana habitación era despojos;
mi báculo, más corvo y menos fuerte.

Vencida de la edad sentí mi espada,
y no hallé cosa en que poner los ojos
que no fuese recuerdo de la muerte.
Psalm
I looked upon my native country's walls,
if once they were strong, now they were decayed,
fatigued by time's inevitable race,
by which their former valor now must fade.

I went out to the fields; I saw the sun
drink up the brooks now freed from winter's ice,
and cattle of the mountain grumbling,
which with its shadows stole from day the light.

I went into my house; I saw that, stained,
it was just rubble of an ancient room;
my walking stick, more bowed and bearing less.

I saw my sword was overcome with age,
and nothing left on which to fix my glance
that was not a reminder now of death.

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The expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492, by Emilio Sala Francés

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>>135048145
9/10

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>>135038167
the arrival of the Hungarians
>zoom in on it

22. To a Child dancing in the Wind

I

DANCE there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water’s roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet; 5
Being young you have not known
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind. 10
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?

II

Has no one said those daring
Kind eyes should be more learn’d?
Or warned you how despairing 15
The moths are when they are burned,
I could have warned you, but you are young,
So we speak a different tongue.

O you will take whatever’s offered
And dream that all the world’s a friend, 20
Suffer as your mother suffered,
Be as broken in the end.
But I am old and you are young,
And I speak a barbarous tongue.

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The Chiesa di Santa Maria presso San Satiro, in Milan, is so unknown and yet very fascinating. The church was designed in a time when it was considered beautiful to have a lot of space inside churches, and yet the place the church had to be built in was super cramped. So the architect Bramante made the church, which seems absolutely normal at a first glance. But as you walk towards the altar you see how the actual church is just half of what it looks like. The other half is cleverly painted with prespective.
>>135048088
Thanks to you for having read, my friend

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>>135047093
Damn that guy had some skill.

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>>135048346

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>>135048671
This is how the church really is

I guess ill add something, here's some quotes i like from Don Quixote.

>"Why, if I'd nought else to my credit but my believing, as I do believe firmly and truly, in God and the Holy Catholic and Roman Church, and being a mortal enemy of the Jews, as I am, the historians ought to have mercy on me and treat me well in their writings."
- Sancho Panza, squire to Don Quixote.

>"how much fewer are those who have been rewarded by war than those who have perished by it?"
- Don Quixote

>>135048840
is that a Galli da Bibiena perspective work?

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>>135049016
Ah, the Galli da Bibbiena... in fact no, this was made 200 years prior to their birth, by Bramante

And now, to some Bernini posting
Keep in mind this is god damn marble.

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a classic

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parliament outside

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>>135038167
From "The Flies of The Market Place", Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Little do the people understand what is great -- that is to say, the creator. But they have a taste for all showmen and actors of great things.

Around the creators of new values revolves the world: -- invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory: such is the course of things.

The actor has spirit, but little conscience of the spirit. He always believes in that with which he most strongly inspires belief -- in himself!

Tomorrow he has a new belief, and the day after, one still newer. Like the people, he has quick perceptions and fickle moods.

To defeat -- that means for him: to prove. To drive to frenzy -- that means for him: to convince. And blood is to him the best of all arguments.

A truth which glides only into refined ears, he calls falsehood and nothing. He believes only in gods that make a big noise in the world!"

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>>135049421
Parlament inside

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>>135044074
meh much better

>>135049198
>>135049157
>>135048954
check out this
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008509547

>>135049734
>>135049463
tfw no Victorian emo qt

>>135048951
>from Don Quixote
You should read/listen to the poem "Lepanto," I left the best audio version above. Quixote fought there under Don Jon of Austria. I wish I could explain to people here why I love that story so much, not only the poem but there's a great novel "Empire s of the Sea: The BAttle of Lepanto, Siege of Malta, and the Contest for the Center of the World."

It was the second time in world history (first when the Greeks defeated the Persians) that the West was saved from savagery, and the Turks were falling after.

People have no idea how horrible they were, disgusting human beings. Not only did they raid Europe for slaves but to destroy Europe, dig up their dead enemies and defile their corpses, animals.
The Venetians had tried to ty out of it until they killed the Venetian governor at Cyprus by skinning him alive (and ha d a Jew specialist in such things do it of course to make it last as long and as painful as possible). The Venetians hunted them down and the battle scene was almost 5 miles across of blood, turbans, and the captured Turk banner is still in a church in Italy (afraid the cuckold we have now is going to give it back).

Even protestant england rang their church bells for 3 days. Probably the greatest moment of European unity we've ever had, celebrated from Malta to Scandinavia. The poem captures it perfectly.

>>135048491
Why are women such shitty artists?

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always reminds me of gondor

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As an embassador of our Colombian brothers here it is a aphorism of Nicolás Gómez Dávila. You fuckers should read him

>The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

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>>135038167
The multitudes, they flocked in throngs
To hear the music and the songs.
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans,
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans.
Mighty craic. Loads of frolics,
Pioneers and alcoholics,
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA,
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA.
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs,
mickey dodgers in disguise.
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs,
Massage parlours in horse boxes.
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns,
Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks,
RTE are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin' shapes.
This is heaven, this is hell.
Who cares? Who can tell?

fuck europ, MIX ALL THE RACES

>>135050125
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”

>>135050123
they rarely received proper training or patronage.

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>>135050123
Have you painted something better you'd like to share?

>>135050125
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

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>>135050401

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The Duomo (cahtedral) di Milano

>>135050125
“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it.”

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>>135038167
>La Sagrada Familia chapel interior
That shit's a building...

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,

>>135050125
“Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance.

The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.”

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>>135050517
Interior

>>135050595
Subway, is it not? I was always extremely amazed at how beautiful they are over there. Truly magnicient.

>>135047626
Would italian be easy if you know latin firat?

>>135050401

>N-no...

>>135050125
“The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions.
Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward.
When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.”

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tfw you will always been a burger and not live in the land of your forefathers

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>>135050606

Can't wait for it to be completely finished, most astonishing building I've ever seen in person without doubt. It leaves a mark in your memory

>>135051304
The land of your forefathers is in the hearts and minds of those who esteem them.

>>135050999
Nice trips
Many, many words are extremely similar (of course). The grammar is different thought, for example there are no declinations. Easier in some ways and harder in others. Considering you're a germanic language native speaker it wouldn't exactly be a stroll in the woods but knowing latin definitely gives you an advantage point

>>135051304
>>135051407
"Mountains belong to those who love them."
-Eihei Dogen, 13th Century Zen Master

>>135050125
“To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more”

Excerpt from Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats:

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is senpai'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?

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The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.

The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control–
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf–
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.

– Rudyard Kipling

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I guess Putin is really giving money to underground organizations

>>135052067
kek

>>135050512
Wow so this is the power of modern art
Saved

>>135052199
that's a copyright violation

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>>135052199

there is decent modern art

>>135052356
Not if it's a screen shot ;)

>>135052593
What Snapchat filter is that?

>>135050125
What a gold mine he was.

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>>135052742

paint

>>135051439
Ah great, perhaps i will pick up italian afterwards.

>>135052637
> ;)
are you making threats?! lol

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>>135052853
>>135052742
>paint
nice one anon

>>135048329
it was a dance-off, the catholic priest won.

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We pre-Raphaelites now

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>>135054307

not sure if ironic or simply don't like this kind of art, which I respect, but in any case, yes it is paint

>>135051348
Delete this heresy.

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>>135055747

which one, the comment or the image

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wow I missed these

>>135044675
I like that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFkPd6fEuI

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btw I only discovered ezra pond because of these threads

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>>135056818
I've been stuck in a concrete jungle since 8 (city).

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>>135056818
"honey I'm home"

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belonged to Charles II, Duke of Parma The sword has a straight blade of hexagonal section, with remains of engraved and gilt decorations on blued ground, with a visible date 1848.


it is written Merentibus which means Deserving on latim.
that duke was no cuck.

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>>135057551

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>>135057551
another shot

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>>135046931
I'm ready.

>>135050480
Russia bro, why was Stalin willing to commission beautiful things like the Moscow metro, when other communists seemed only capable of making bleak tenements.

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>>135057903
lenin invented the therm racism.
you both are antiwhite by nature

>>135051348
You see this boat off the coast. what do?

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>>135058133
has something to do with his delusions of grandeur probably

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>>135057903
why jewish influence is so glorified?
christians [cucks by ideology]....marxists [antiwhites by ideology]... have little place in a white world.

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>>135058613

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>>135058189
come on brasil, you are the last one who should speak on the topic of whiteness

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>>135058735

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>>135058540
>you will never slay people using a Johann Stroblberge's superior work
why even have money

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>>135058816
Russia was the first contry to be overuled by the jewish plutocracy of comunism and you costed the world the Third Reich. Russia [for being antiwhites] and Ingland [for forcing brazil and US and most of the world into freeing slaves by threatening embargos over the world] are the most historically pathetic countries on the universe.

also
>flag banter
truly proving the inferior marxist jewish mind

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>>135059285

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>>135059338

>>135058896
This is an extremely depressing picture.

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Imperial Guard Officer Horse Grenadier Sword possibly could belong to a Dragoon officer or to an officer of the Cuirassiers since the steel blade is straight and not curved

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>>135059434

>>135046974
I remember reading this in Eng literature. Is it Shakespeare?

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>>135059506
how do you figure?

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>>135059680
meant for
>>135059453

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Oldest known coat of arms for city.

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>>135059516

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>>135058816
>>135057903
check this one out.

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>>135059934

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>>135060105

>>135059792
The viewer knows that the Christians, (that who I think the subject of it is) are going to be viciously torn apart and massacred. Or in the best case scenario, a few somehow survive that, and get crucified and cremated shortly after, or thrown back in.

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>>135060167

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