Tuesday 5 May 2020

Il dolce far niente - The sweet pleasure of doing nothing.


Ripe was the drowsy hour;
The blissful cloud of summer-indolence 
Benumbed my eyes....
(John Keats)


Dolce Far Niente (Sweet Idleness)
or a Pompeian Fishpont (1904)
by John William Godward 

Celebrating 'Il dolce far niente', the sweet, delicious pleasure of indolence. 




Dolce Far Niente  (1877)
by Auguste Toulmouche