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Shall the Meek? 2
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by Svetlana Rumak
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by Svetlana Rumak
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by Jiri Borsky
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Summering South by Cathie Joy Young
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Hunter on Horseback Attacked by a Mythical Beast
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Icon of St George slaying the dragon
‘Black George’
“On a recent visit to the British Museum I came across this beautiful icon.
It was found in 1959 in a small village in the district of Ilinsky on the Pinega river in Northern Russia by Maria Rozanova, wife of the prominent dissident author Andrei Sinyavsky. It was being used to shutter a barn window. When found all that was visible was an eighteenth century folk painting. Later in Moscow, under the hands of a professional restorer, various layers were stripped off to reveal this extraordinary image of St George slaying a dragon. Experts dated it to the end of the fourteenth century and attributed it to an artist from Pskov. St George sits astride a black rather than the usual white horse, hence Black George, cooly lancing a dragon in the mouth. The red cloak encircling and billowing behind his halo gives him flight.” -
Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, (possibly by)
Laughing Foolca. 1500
Oil on panel -
Jonkvrouw
by Jose van Kleef
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Painting. Jahangir with a hawk with inscriptions. On paper.
India 1605-1627
via theplumtree:heracliteanfire:
Posted on March 8, 2011 via A London Salmagundi with 213 notes
Source: britishmuseum.org
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Firebird
A.Glazunov
Lacquered Box 1929 Palekh -
Amadeo Modigliani
Portrait of Léopold Zborowski 1918
Oil on Canvas
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Painter, illustrator, maker of clocks & teller of tales, who travelled in a house on wheels to the edge of Dartmoor and now sits there amongst books and paint finding beauty in otherness..
This will be a sketchbook of ideas, visuals to inspire, and snippets from my own journey.
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com
