For examples of indoor lighting in art and illustration see A History of Home Lighting. Below is a collection of art featuring outdoor lighting and hand-held lanterns. When I was looking for reference a while back it was hard to find, but I’ve since noticed lighting and lanterns everywhere.
I am out with lanterns Looking for myself
Emily Dickenson
MONET REFUSES THE OPERATION
a poem by Lisel Mueller (1924–2020)
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction.
Wincenty Trojanowski (Polish, 1859 – 1928) lightLuther Emerson Van Gorder – Japanese Lanterns (1861-1931)Charles Courtney Curran Lantern from 1904 magazine Blanco y negro by SanchaEugen OsswaldMaxfield Parrish, (1870 – 1966) The Lantern Bearers, 1908J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951) for a 1937 edition of The Saturday Evening PostAKIRA, KATSUHIRO ÔTOMO (1988)1968 Lemon Kelly E.W. Kelly back coverVirgil Finlay Louis Wain (English, 1860-1939)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: