Saint’s day. Eleanor (Leonor or Nora). Eleanor’s grave in Fontevraud Abbey

Dear friends and followers,

today here is this tribute to: another saint,

wise and alluring woman, simply like most of you.

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Thanks so much for your visits and comments!

By anonymous french artist of 12th century – The wedding between Eleanor of Aquitaine the saint, and Louis VII of France in Bordeaux in 1137

The grave of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey (Maine-et-Loire department in western France)

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Boats, ships, sea, beach, shore and rivers

By Signac, Paul – View over the river Seine

By Van Gogh – Fishing boats at the french region of Camargue

By Turner, J.M.W. – Under the storm

By Guardi, Francesco – Venice seen from St Giorgio Maggiore isle

By Singer Sargent – The fishing fruits

By De Velde, The Elder – A view of a dutch ship on the coast

By Prendergast, Maurice – A group of girls on the shore of a beach

By Vodkin, Petrov – The port in Dieppe

By Van Dyck, Anthony – Ships on a coastal landscape

By Guillaumin, Armand – In Netherlands

By Luyken, Jan – Chinese sailing junks on the coast

By Monet – A boat beached on the shore

By Whistler, J. McNeill – Tidal wave

By myself – Coastal landscape at St Pere Pescador (Girona) A tribute to my admired Rembrandt

Reading, drawing, painting or writing

By Picasso – The painter

By Hopper – A reader in a public garden at night

By Botero, Fernando – News from her lover

By Rockwell, Norman – The snooper model

By Pasternak, Leonid – Two sisters reading

By Redon. O. – The reader

By Chagall – Untitled

By Matisse – The artist’s daughter reading

By anonymous french artist of 9th century – A painter copying a portrait, from ‘Sacra Parallela’ the work of John of Damascus

By Beardsley – A lady chooses a book

By Klee – A seated girl writes

By Ancher, Anna K. B. – Reading old woman

By Degas – Sketch of books on shelvings

By López, Antonio – Study of his nephew wearing a suit and holding a palette

By Chodowiecke, Daniel N. – The public reading

By Gromaire, Marcel – A bare breasted woman seated on a armchair

Famous people sketched

By Léger – Rimbaud

By Delacroix – Aspasia, the milesian woman of the 5th century

By De la Tour, M. Q. – The french Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, François-Marie A. Voltaire

By Picasso – Portrait of Paul Éluard

By Della Bella – Galileo Galilei offers the spyglass to the Astronomy, Optics and Mathematics

By Opisso, Ricard – Oscar Wilde, with Yvette Guilbert and Toulouse-Lautrec at his right, seated at the Cafe de la Galette

By Marstrand, Wilhelm – The danish philosopher Kierkegaard seen in profile

By Wille, P. A. – The french revolutionary, Georges Jacques Danton

By Bree, M. I. Van – Napoleon I

By Bastien-Lepage – Joan of Arc

By Cranach, Lucas – Luther’s father

By Rivers, Larry – Study for George Washington crossing the Delaware

By De la Tour, M. Q. – The head of Madame de Pompadour

By Brancusi – James Joyce

By Cabanel, Alexandre – Louis IX king of France

By Pasternak, L. – The poet Rainer Maria Rilke near the Red Square and the Kremlin in the background

By De Chirico, Giorgio – Euripides, one of the three great tragedians

By De Musset, A. – George Sand at home

By De Herrera, Francisco, el Joven – Carlos II king of Castilla and Aragón with his mother Mariana of Austria

By Deineka Alexander- The poet Mayakovsky

By Alexander Pushkin – An sketch of Nikolai Gogol seen in profile

By Ilia Efimovich Repin – Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy reading

By Bodinier, Guillaume – Portrait of Homer blind

By Helleu, P. – Marcel Proust in deathbed