• [2025-08-08 Fri 01:16] Disabling this page again. Sorry if you were redirected from an art-related link, but that's just too messy to host on my small website. If I ever have the time, I will work on making it exportable.
• [2025-07-21 Mon 23:25] You can also click on an image to open it in a new tab. This can be helpful if the lazyloader makes the image appear in a late stage (so you will see a gray loader instead of it). The page size is big because it loads a lot of images. I got this feedback from IRC, but the whole purpose of this page, as mentioned before, is only for personal reference.
• [2025-07-19 Sat 21:16] Sometimes I find myself continually questioning the fundamental purpose of art and beauty. That tension becomes especially pronounced when I consider how the same aesthetic principles that govern a Bach fugue or a neoclassical building also manifest in engineering: the graceful curve of a suspension bridge's cables, the elegant logic of a well-designed algorithm, or the satisfying economy of a mechanical solution that achieves maximum effect with minimal means. Paul Graham's observations in "Hackers and Painters" about the fundamental similarity between engineering and painting suggest that perhaps what we call beauty is actually our recognition of deeper structural harmonies—patterns that reveal themselves whether we're contemplating the mathematical relationships in a Mozart sonata, the load distribution in a cathedral's flying buttresses, or the recursive elegance of a piece of code that solves a complex problem with startling simplicity. This leads me to wonder whether aesthetic experience represents not mere decoration or distraction from reality, but rather our most direct method of perceiving the underlying order that governs natural and human-made systems alike. Maybe that's a TODO to discuss in a post later. Or a wondering thought that will die with me.
• [2025-07-17 Thu 20:59] I updated the page to include lazy-loading and collapsed all the headings by default, you will have to click them to get them folded. This will require JS to run (for some reason, lazy-loading is not working properly on some mobile phones)

• [2025-07-16 Wed 05:59]: Some artist are only partially included here, because I absolutely adore every work of them, and I find it unnecessary to include each. As of now, these are:

  • Thomas Cole
• [2025-05-09 Fri 04:59] This part is currently available. It used to be marked as a private note. I'm making it available now just for the case of the references I might use in my blog. I plan some day to turn this page into a more pleasant-to-browse website.
• [2024-02-17 Sat 23:47] I'm a bit confused of how to write my notes on the images, including the artist metadata and my points, in an unstructured data format (plaintext) but still, make it easy for me when the day comes and I want to process this data. Maybe I just should go intuitively?
• [2024-02-17 Sat 23:30] I've been thinking of building a PKMS-like software but for managing my art collections. By now, I'm considering just maintaining them on this node. Thus, here you can find my favorite paintings and my notes on them.

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https://archive.org/details/7_20200325_20200325

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 9 / 217 The Death of Hippolytus (1860)

https://www.wikiart.org/en/Alphabet/a/text-list

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