Friday, 22 January 2010

Further






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Friday, 23 October 2009

Further Works from The Bowes Museum: Cybele, Saturn and Jupiter (possibly)

  

"Cybele Beseeching Saturn to Spare her Child"

Artist Attributed to circle of Gossaert, Jan (Flemish painter, ca. 1478-1532)
Previously attributed to Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Italian painter, 1449-1494)
Previously attributed to Gossaert, Jan (Flemish painter, ca. 1478-1532)
1520-1530
The subject of this painting has been variously interpreted as Cybele rescuing the young Jupiter from his father Saturn, as Peleus removing the young Achilles from the care of Thetis, or as an atypical depiction of Mars, Cupid and Venus.


(source: vads.ac.uk)


Thursday, 22 October 2009

Further Works from The Bowes Museum: St Jerome



A Flemish painting of the fifteenth century.


Saturday, 17 October 2009

Further Works from The Bowes Museum: St Francis



The Levitation of St Francis
by Francisco de Zurbaran



photo: Bridgeman Art on Demand
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Further Elephant Sightings




Green elephants are frequently seen in Thailand



But these are in Brighton, UK, a popular venue for political party conferences... is the elephant movement going mainstream?



Note the typical
delegate's badge...obviously attending a forum of some sort...



but they still refuse to give interviews.

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Further Adventures of the Lewis Chessmen

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Some of them have been out and about...








The soldiers have been kept in the dark...




...as usual...










The Queen has been finding
modern life
very stressful...



























and as a final indignity the King has now been fenced in and had a kind of stone stump put next to him with Explanations....





...and the writer of this article claims they're not actually chess pieces at all, but pieces for a Viking game called, deliciously, Hnefatafl.
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