Romeo and Juliet has no balcony. Shakespeare didn’t even know what a balcony was–so how did one end in his most famous scene? By Lois Leveen at The Atlantic (paywalled)
Thomas Creswick – Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint ca. 1843Maurice Lalau (1881 ~ 1961) 1915 illustration for Grandmother’s Fairy Tales by Charles Robert-DumasThe Rose, or the Artist’s Journey, by Austrian painter Moritz von Schwind (1846-47)Two Women On Veranda Overlooking The Sea by Marcel RiederJohn Lavery 1920, his wife Hazel on the balcony of the Eden-Grand Hotel at Cap d’AilJohn Maclauchlan Milne’s ‘Cottages in Provence’ (1924)Young woman reading or Lady with Balcony Henri Ottmann (French 1877-1927)Young Man at His Window (1875) by Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)Harald Slott-Møller (Danish Painter 1864 – 1937) Evening at Vejle Fjord, 1904Estella Canziani (1887-1964) Good Morning from ‘A Modern Man — The Average Guy Pin-Up Calendar’ Arts & Decoration Magazine Febuary 1929やまの ゆき みてたらね1937, advertising poster for the Italian village Abbazia by Walter MolinoKawase Hasui, Spring Snow at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, 19321951 BAŚNIE; J. Ch. Andersen, illustrated by J. M. Szancer – Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales in Polish‘El Puente del Cuervo’ (The Crow Bridge), “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine”, Aug. 1906 by American illustrator Walter Appleton ClarkFelix Vallotton balconyNobody’s Cat by Miska Miles, illustrated by John Schoenherr (1969)Joan Aiken’s ‘The Kingdom Under the Sea and Other Stories.’ Jan PieńkowskiArthur Percy (Swedish, 1886 – 1976) Window View
Header painting is by Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917) “Woman On The Balcony”
