The governor is starved by his doctor, then warned of an attack and assassins. The knight has a nocturnal visit from an old duenna which becomes uncomfortable for them both.
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Added to portraits to indicate the sagacity of the subject, owls were dear to the heart and brush of Hieronymus Bosch.
Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.
How many verbal stories or movies tell dozens of different stories? Here are paintings that are not only so rich in narrative, but tell all those stories at the same time.
A friend of Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner, he painted interiors, portraits, and landscapes, which were originally made in front of the motif.
Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.
Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.
Sancho’s first duties as governor include a series of disputes to settle, and he shows the wisdom of Solomon. His master doesn’t fare as well when he’s attacked by a cat.
Includes some of the 20 lithographs he made for a limited edition of August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel ‘Inferno’, published in 1920.
This blog started publishing on Saturday 17 January 2015, seven years ago. Here’s a look back through Mountain Lion security updates, paintings of oblivion, and more.
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