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Michel Lara
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Four exquisite details of the marble statue of a Naiad or Nymph as she hesitantly dips her bare toes on a cold running stream [1858] by Brescian Romantic sculptor, Giovanni Battista Lombardi.
These two wonderful details are my favorites showing Lombardi's mastery to bring marble to life: the soft gleam off her pearl diadem centered by a shell and the fluid transparency of the running water.
The delicate movement of her left hand in front of her body is an imitation of the pudica [modest] gesture seen in Roman Venuses.

Naiad or Nymph' by Giovanni Battista Lombardi, marble 1858 [sold on Sotheby's]
See above detail #4 showing Lombardi's mastery on marble: the lifelike folds of her drapery [1]
Lombardi's lifelike nymph sculpture reminds me of the Ovidian myth: Lombardi as a modern Pygmalion materializing his ideal woman [Galatea] out of marble.

Jean-Léon Gérôme-Pygmalion and Galatea [detail] ca.1890 @metmuseum
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I just checked this marvelous website/database documenting the world through watercolours before 1900. Highly recommended.
Two wonderful watercolours you can find in this website/database:
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scars hope silent
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A human edenic vision haunts the moonlit pastoral landscapes of Somerset by British folk artist John Caple (b.1966) #FolkloreThursday
John Caple's paintings:

1-The Broomsquire's Cottage
2-Wild Horse-Full Moon
3-The Hermitage
4-A Dusk Wish
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