The Speed God (1907) by J.C. Leyendecker Size:50x70 cm / 20x28″ and full of love

and full of love

including creating derivative works or variations

Celebrate love in all its vibrant forms with this bold

where poetry and watercolour team up to make intimacy feel elegant

there is this: freedom

The Speed God (1907) by J.C. Leyendecker Size:50x70 cm / 20x28″ and full of loveJ. C. Leyendeckers The Speed God (1907) turns Mercury, Roman god of speed, into a flash of modern desire. Created as the January 19, 1907 Colliers cover, the oil painting places a near nude, wing sandalled figure on a roaring machine, pointing forward like progress itself. The sitter is not securely identified. Its power lies in the alibi: mythology let a mainstream magazine place male beauty, motion and muscle on the newsstand. Classical, futuristic