But if the wind suddenly lifted the bird and it sailed through the skies, effortlessly, beautifully — well, that's like flight into the realm where, in prayer, «so great a sweetness flows in the breast that we must laugh and we must sing, we are blest by everything, everything we look upon is blest,» as William Butler Yeats says in another context. (religion-online.org)
Includes Old Master paintings (14th century - present), as well as a wide collection of works by Irish artists James Barry, Augustus Nicholas Burke, Gerard Dillon, Paul Henry, Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Mainie Jellett, Sean Keating, Louis le Brocquy, William John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Roderic O'Conor, Sarah Purser and Jack B. Yeats, as well as many other Irish painters and sculptors. (visual-arts-cork.com)
This weekend sees the 150th anniversary of W.B. Yeats» birth; visit the homes of five influential British bards to get your own rhyming couplets flowing. (artfund.org)