#bridge of the century

[ltwilliammowett]

Götheborg of Sweden in London

[pear-spective]

FIDELIA BRIDGES

Milkweeds (1876)

[weirdlookindog]

John Martin (1789-1854) - Bridge over Chaos, 1827

from 'The Paradise Lost of Milton, with illustrations designed and engraved by John Martin', in two volumes, published by Septimus Prowett, London, 1827

[escapismsworld]

Liberty Bridge, Budapest (1896, rebuilt 1945)

[vintageeurope]

Tartu, Estonia 1880

[lionofchaeronea]

Radiator Building -- Night, New York, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

De Scott Evans (1847-1898) "Daisies" (c. 1885) Oil on linen Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States Depicted is the artist’s signature, in the pseudonym S. S. David, appearing on a scrap of paper nailed to the wooden panel beneath the precarious bouquet, at risk of being washed away.

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Vicky Krieps as Alma & Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock in Phantom Thread (Film, 2017).

[weary-hearted-art]

Fidelia Bridges, Untitled, 1876. Watercolor on paper

[olympain]

[useless-catalanfacts]

Medieval bridge in Vallfogona de Ripollès (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia), built in the 14th century by order of the lords of Milany when they moved to a new castle on the other side of the stream.

Photo from Ripollès Turisme.

[mythological-art]

Oedipus and Antigone

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)

Genre: Mythological Art

Date: 1812

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The National Museum in Stockholm

Description

In this painting of Oedipus and Antigone from 1812, Eckersberg presents a doting and concerned Antigone and an elderly Oedipus who is visibly very frail. Oedipus nonetheless shoulders the burden of carrying some heavy clothing on his back, while Antigone walks more freely, albeit while expending energy tending to her father. I love the bright colours in this scene, but also the way Eckersberg manages to capture the melancholy of both characters and the tenderness between them. On they go, in sadness, across the bridge.

In Greek mythology Antigone is a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother is either Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia. She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene. The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "in place of one's parents" or "worthy of one's parents".

[vintagegermany]

Hamburg 1890

[ancientromebuildings]

Pons Aemilius, Rome

* 2nd century BCE

Rome, July 2015

[vintageeurope]

Rome 1850/1870