Franz Liszt's Love Letter to Marie d'Agoult

"My heart overflows with emotion and joy!

I do not know what heavenly languor, what infinite pleasure permeates it and burns me up.

It is as if I had never loved!

Tell me whence these uncanny disturbances spring, these inexpressible foretastes of delight, these divine, tremors of love.

Oh! all this can only spring from you, sister, angel, woman, Marie!"

Henri Lehmann | Marie d'Agoult, 1843 | Petit Palais, Paris

Michele Del Campo, 1976 | Pittore Figurativo

Michele Del Campo è un artista Italiano nato a Sannicandro Garganico (Foggia).

Isolato in campagna, trascorreva il suo tempo disegnando e pedalando per lunghe distanze, quando non era a scuola.

All'età di 18 anni la sua famiglia si trasferì a Milano, e dopo aver iniziato a studiare Belle Arti, insoddisfatto del livello di insegnamento, a 20 anni iniziò un pellegrinaggio che lo portò a vivere in molti luoghi del mondo.

Dopo aver studiato Illustrazione a Falmouth (Inghilterra) e poi a Dundee (Scozia) si è trasferito a Madrid (Spagna) dove ha ripreso gli studi in Belle Arti e contemporaneamente ha iniziato ad esporre in gallerie d'arte.

Matteo Caloiaro, 1983 | Genre / Figurative painter

Matteo Caloiaro, a Florida native, resides in Sarasota, FL with his wife and fellow artist, Brooke Olivares.

Matteo is a full time painter and an illustration instructor at Ringling College of Art and Design.

His work has been exhibited throughout the East Coast and the Mid-West.

Matteo is currently represented by Kiley Court Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Brandt-Roberts Galleries in Columbus, OH, and Palm Avenue Fine Art in Sarasota, FL. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions.

Kay Boyce | Pastellista

La pittrice ed illustratrice Britannica Kay Boyce è nata a Sheffield. Da bambina passava spesso ore ed ore a disegnare su rotoli di carta da parati; questo è stato l'inizio della sua passione per l'arte.

Kay ha studiato illustrazione al Wrexham College prima di lavorare come illustratrice freelance.

Ha prodotto lavori editoriali per Women s Weekly, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express ed Woman's Own.

Il suo lavoro di illustratrice l'ha portata ad importanti editori di libri come Hodder e Staughton, Wadsworth Romantics, Mills and Boon e Mandarin.

Bonaparte's Love Letter to Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1796

"I am going to bed with my heart full of your adorable image… I cannot wait to give you proofs of my ardent love… How happy I would be if I could assist you at your undressing, the little firm white breast, the adorable face, the hair tied up in a scarf a la creole. You know that I will never forget the little visits, you know, the little black forest…

I kiss it a thousand times and wait impatiently for the moment I will be in it. To live within Josephine is to live in the Elysian fields.

Kisses on your mouth, your eyes, your breast, everywhere, everywhere".

Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) Joséphine de Beauharnais (The Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I, 1763–1814)

A Love Letter of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1939

My dear little girl

For a long time I’ve been wanting to write to you in the evening after one of those outings with friends that I will soon be describing in “A Defeat,” the kind when the world is ours. I wanted to bring you my conqueror’s joy and lay it at your feet, as they did in the Age of the Sun King. And then, tired out by all the shouting, I always simply went to bed.

Today I’m doing it to feel the pleasure you don’t yet know, of turning abruptly from friendship to love, from strength to tenderness. Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself. This happens much more often than I admit to you, but seldom when I’m writing to you.

Michel Hendrich | Transmission

Mariana Palova | Pittrice e scrittrice Surrealista

Mariana Palova (Jalisco, 30 giugno 1990) è un'artista visiva e scrittrice Messicana.

Il suo lavoro visivo è stato presentato in più di venti mostre nazionali ed internazionali con opere di pittura ad olio, fotografia ed arte digitale, tra cui la mostra Contemplators of the Cosmos nella Sala Polivalente del Museo Nazionale della Morte e La Reunion Astral al Università di Pomona, California.

È autrice della saga letteraria urban fantasy La Nación de las Bestias, pubblicata per la prima volta in modo indipendente e acquistata nel 2018 da due editori.

Mariana Palova trova nel positivo una metamorfosi viva e colorata, l'essenza della propria cosmogonia. Giocando con l'influenza delle sue esperienze e delle sue trasformazioni, Mariana si circonda di un'aura che mostra una devozione speciale per gli elementi della natura, le analogie, la sostituzione, i mostri umani e l'ambiente astrologico.

Lord Byron's Love Letter to Teresa Guiccioli, 1819

"My dearest Teresa,

I have read this book in your garden - my love, you were absent, or else I could not have read it. It is a favorite book of yours, and the writer was a friend of mine.

You will not understand these English words, and others will not understand them, - which is the reason I have not scrawled them in Italian.

But you will recognize the handwriting of him who passionately loved you, and you will divine that, over a book which was yours, he could only think of love.

In that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours - Amor mio - is comprised my existence here and hereafter".

Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) | Countess Teresa Guiccioli (Italian noblewoman and writer, 1800-1873)