European Aesthetics and People

Emma Hart in a Straw Hat (circa 1787) by George Romney

Springtime (1873) by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀 The European Aesthetics and People channel would like to recognize the greatest of all Irish philosophers, Bishop Berkeley, whom is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era of Western philosophy. Esse est percipi “To be is to be perceived.” His most famous question has become popular throughout the centuries… “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley

“Only the countryside is a nourishing social estate, all other social estates are consumers.” — Otto von Bismarck

Dolomites, Italy

π [Portrait of William Jones (1740) by William Hogarth] William Jones was the first to realize pi was an irrational, non-repeating number, and while it could be continually refined and expressed as a decimal, it was infinite and would never have an ultimate conclusion. He later became the editor and publisher of many of Newton's manuscripts, and built up an extraordinary library that was one of the greatest collections of books on science and mathematics ever known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)

“Cause out on the ocean of life my love, there’s so many storms we must rise above. It’s calling you back to face the music, and the song that is coming through.” — Justin Hayward

The Sirens by John Longstaff, 1892

Titania Sleeping in the Moonlight Protected by Her Fairies by John Simmons (1823 – 1876)