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Legendary creatures from Europe, supernatural animal or paranormal entities, generally hybrids, sometimes part human (such as sirens), whose existence has not or cannot be proven. They are described in folklore (including myths and legends), but also may be featured in historical accounts before modernity
Many scientists have criticized the plausibility of cryptids due to lack of physical evidence, [7] likely misidentifications [8] and misinterpretation of stories from folklore. [9] While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Flight into Egypt: c. 1508 206 × 336 cm Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg) Christ and the Adulteress: c. 1508–1510: 139.3 × 181.7 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow) Portrait of a Man (A Man with a Quilted Sleeve) c. 1508–1510: 81.2 × 66.3 cm: National Gallery (London) Portrait of a Lady ...
The twelve interior panels. This open view measures 5.2 m × 3.75 m (17.1 ft × 12.3 ft). [1] Closed view, back panels. The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), [A] is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
The painting shows the Archduke as a collector with friends admiring a set of paintings. The artist himself is standing at a table inspecting engravings. The paintings are arranged in rows on rear walls, with more visible through a central doorway, and a set that are positioned in the foreground leaning against chairs for inspection.
Painter Work Date for work Link Niccolò dell'Abbate: Portrait of a youth with a book: 1545–1550 Francesco Albani: St. Elizabeth in glory: 1603–1604
Allegory of Wisdom and Strength (c. 1580) by Veronese, originally painted for Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, now in the Frick Collection, New York.. The paintings looted from Prague Castle had mostly been amassed by the obsessive collector Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), whose own bulk purchases had included the famous collection of Emperor Charles V's leading minister Cardinal ...