2 February

Born in 1866 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter.

Above: Marina veneciana, c.1889

Also, born in 1882, Irish writer James Joyce.

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities, and these alone give and sustain life.