No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer.
No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.

Workshop of Phidias (5th century BC)
Creator of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the 7 wonders of the world.

Gérard Castello-Lopes. Costa de Lavos, Portugal, 1958

Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989)

Gustav Klimt – “The Golden Forest”

Briton Rivière – The temptation in the wilderness, 1898

Klemens Brosch – Autumn Sonata aka Herbstsonate

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer – Ophelia, 1900