Further Pictures of Cimiez: The Monastery Gardens and View

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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)

Further Works from The Bowes Museum: St Jerome

A Flemish painting of the fifteenth century.

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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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.

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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Further Works by Sisley

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Moret-sur-Loing in the Morning Sun



On the Cliffs, Langland Bay, Wales

Banks of the Seine at Bougival


Wheat Field


Willows on the Banks of the Orvanne

images from http://www.alfredsisley.org/