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Concept

Solitude

Images

  • An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A man sits in solitude on the ledge of an open window with his head leaning on his arm with a clock to the right and the word 'SIDA' below; an advertisement about AIDS discrimination by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The handbook of solitude : psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone / edited by Robert J. Coplan and Julie C. Bowker.

    | Date: 2014
    • Books

    Positive solitude : a practical program for mastering loneliness and achieving self-fulfillment / Rae André.

    André, Rae | Date: 2000
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

    | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 32373i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man sits in solitude on the ledge of an open window with his head leaning on his arm with a clock to the right and the word 'SIDA' below; an advertisement about AIDS discrimination by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 676118i
    • Books
    • Online

    Solitude considered with respect to its influence upon the mind and the heart : written originally in German / by M. Zimmermann ... translated from the French of J.B. Mercier.

    Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 1728-1795. | Date: 1794
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