Five Namegivers

 Odd Nerdrum 1994

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Corn Eaters by Helen Flockhart

Oil on canvas

Jonkvrouw

by Jose van Kleef

Painting. Jahangir with a hawk with inscriptions. On paper.

India 1605-1627

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 (British Museum)

Sirens dancing, playing music, double recorder and harp.

English c. 1300 Bestiary. 

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Mermaids - sirens - monster fish

France c. 1450-70

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Camille Pissaro - Self Portrait

Dry point aquatint 1890

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Cards

Charles Emile Jacque

Etching 1850

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Firebird

A.Glazunov 

Lacquered Box 1929  Palekh

Illustrations by B Zabirokhin from White Swan - Russian Fairytales

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Erwartungen

(Expectations) 

Etching by Gaelle Lalonde

The Combat; Angel or Devil

Paul Nash

1910 

Pen, ink and wash

This drawing depicts a dramatic nightmare battle between an angel and a devil. The mysteries associated with the night fascinated the British artist Paul Nash (1889-1946). He explored the notion that sometimes only the trees witnessed events that took place after dark.

In an accompanying poem Nash describes this scene.

‘A place of gibbet-shapen trees and black abyss 
Where gaunt hills brooded dark and evil 
Girdled by dense wet woods and rushing streams 
A dread place seen only in dreams 
Of which there is no history but this 
That on yon’ stony tor 
An angel fought a devil.’

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Calligraphy by Sveta Dorosheva

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Vladyslav Yerko from The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho ~ via

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