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Agnolo di Cosimo (Il Bronzino), The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, 1569
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The Sacrifice of Isaac (1636), oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich | artwork by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Meer mit zwei Seeglern, Emil Nolde. German Expressionist Painter (1867 - 1956)
(via themetropolitanline)
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Secret Bookcase Room, Ireland
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Karl Heilmayer (1829-1908), Zenoburg, near Meran, in the Tyrol, 1900s. Oil on wood, 20.5 x 27 cm
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Table’s pedestal (Trapezophoros) with two griffins wolfing a deer. Polychrome marble carving (4th century Before Christ) belonging to a Dauni’s citizen high society grave. Recovered in Ascoli Satriano (Foggia, Italy), the work is considered as a masterpiece with no pre-existing equals. .
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Church of St Lubentius in Dietkirchen, Germany. From Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence by the photographer, Ludwig Ries
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Notes"Most of us pass through life in a state of semi-anesthesia, with life itself blotted out by the business of living. We shut out life itself in order to carry on and survive, and the function of the arts is to pierce that shield and make us suddenly reexperience something that we’ve always known but haven’t been experiencing anymore." -
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Notes"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."Northrop Frye, 1957
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Notes"A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicize such things."
