golden

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria

French

early 15th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

 John Donne

Klimt

Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907.

Nue Galerie

 

 

 

 

The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. 
The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. 
The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills...  
Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay...
  Charlotte Brontë  

Янтарная комната Yantarnaya komnata 

Екатерининский дворец  Ца́рское Село

1701-1709

 

 

 

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafty

 tongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.

 It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.       Nathaniel Hawthorne

JASON WU 

gold leaf duchesse satin

fall 2010

 

 

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Madonna & Child

Russian Icon

19th century

 

 

 

 

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 

John Burroughs  

 

Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha 

c. 563 BCE - 623 BCE 

Wat Pho

I, a light canoe will build me... that shall float upon the river,

like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily!

 Hiawatha

 

 

 

 

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