The Russian Metro Stations By  David Burdeny

The Tunnel of Love in Klevan, Ukraine.

“Les druides coupant du gui le sixième jour de la Lune / Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon” Henri-Paul Motte 1900

Dunsborough Park, Surrey

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The painting featured is "Night (No. 2)" by William Orpen, created in 1907. The work depicts a couple in an intimate moment, in a nocturnal setting, with a window in the background. The atmosphere of the painting conveys a sense of passion and emotion. Orpen, known for his boldness and talent, captures the joy of the early years of his marriage to Grace, who married in 1901. The painting is one of a series of works created by the artist that year.

Birr Castle, Ireland by Luke Ravitch

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔠𝔱

The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622 Marble

Height 225 cm

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

Galleria Borghese, Rome

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."

Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote:

"my travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."

Church of Chavenay

Yveline region of France

Pierre Poschadel

Frederic Leighton (English, 1830-1896)

Memories