Sancho bumps into an old neighbour, who asks him to help him recover buried treasure. He and his donkey then fall into a pit and have to be recovered.
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One of a group aiming to create a national Swedish art in the mid-19th century, he painted Norse myths in the period 1846-50.
A unique visual encyclopaedia featuring more than a hundred proverbs, followed by a similar compendium of children’s games.
In the previous episode, Sancho Panza made up for his lunchtime starvation by eating voraciously at dinner. It […]
Remember the water cycle from school? Here’s the grandfather of such explanatory diagrams, told in one of the first modern landscape paintings.
One of the world’s most famous paintings, a conversation piece for his noble friends, was commissioned by a Count with strange voyeuristic tastes.
Much happens when Governor Sancho Panza undertakes his rounds at night. The Duchess sends a page to Sancho’s wife, asking her to send acorns.
In 23 scenes from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his Resurrection, Memling tells what takes a Gospel six chapters in a single painting.
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.
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.
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