Turning harvested and threshed grain into food required it to be crushed into flour in mills, powered either by wind or water.
Category Archive: Life
Deathbed scenes of Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, General Wolfe, Marat, Géricault, Camille Monet, and a posthumous portrait that proved the death of Klimt.
Myths of the strange births of Venus, Bacchus, Helen and Adonis, the Nativity, and Ford Madox Brown’s son.
More than a dozen heroes are called to hunt a boar as big as an ox that is destroying crops and livestock. Their attempts are farcical until the young woman Atalanta impales the boar with her arrow.
Introduction and background, extensive references including English translations, and a complete illustrated table of contents of this series.
How a young man tricked a young woman into making a vow to marry. When attempts to marry her to another failed, they were finally united.
In the summer of 1912 she travelled north to paint First Nations peoples, and returned to exhibit 200 of her paintings in Vancouver in 1913.
Threshing cut cereal using flails, horses towing a roller, oxen trampling the corn, a sledge, a hand-cranked machine, and a large threshing machine. With Monet’s grainstacks.
King Candaules killed, Phryné acquitted of impiety, Musidora watched while bathing, a nude on a beach, and Bonnard’s partner Marthe.
Polyphemus watching the naked Acis, King David watching Bathsheba, two old elders watching Susanna bathing, each of them voyeurs.
The Eclectic Light Company 