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The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure, stepping slowly, methodically sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seemingly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again ...
The principal group consists of two nymphs [b] and two fauns (emblem of the four seasons), dancing joyously in a ring. While thus performing their rounds, one of the former is squeezing the juice of grapes from her hand on two bacchanalian boys, who are struggling together to catch it; a third, overcome with its potent effects, lies asleep near them.
The Seasons or The Four Seasons is a set of four paintings produced in 1563, 1572 and 1573 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He offered the set to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1569, accompanying The Four Elements. Each shows a profile portrait made up of fruit, vegetables and plants relating to the relevant season.
Echo and Narcissus (1627), by Nicolas Poussin. Oil on canvas, 74 × 100 cm (29 × 39 in). Louvre, Paris Items portrayed in this file ...
cameronparkins/Flickr CelebratiJuly 14th is Bastille Day, the the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in Paris, which precipitated the French Revolution. Think Independence Day in America, but
Narcissus is an oil on canvas painting by French artist François Lemoyne, created in 1728, [1] from a series of three works on the myth of Narcissus. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon . The painter
The painting represents the mythological character of Narcissus who reflects in the water and falls in love with his own image. French Narcisse, Le Caravage, 1598-1599, huile sur toile, 113,3 × 94 cm, peinture baroque.
Bridgerton star Simone Ashley features in a moving short film from Bastille frontman Dan Smith for his new album, &( Ampersand), which accompanies the original song “Eve & Paradise Lost”.