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OriginalSaudade by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
Reason
Striking illustration of the concept of saudade, which has no direct English translation. This is a high quality image (15,036 × 30,000 pixels, file size 131.82 MB) from the Google Art Project. The word "describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never return. A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing, moved away, separated, or died. Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone..."
Articles in which this image appears
Saudade, Desire, and just replaced a smaller version of the same image on José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
Zwintscher: Sehnsucht
  • SupportTrès evocative. Interesting that in Brazil there's an official day of Saudade – it's coming up on Jan. 30. (Saudade seems similar to the German Sehnsucht (illus. below right), the article about which mentions Saudade.) Sca (talk) 15:21, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Almeida Júnior - Saudade (Longing) - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:13, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]