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Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
The Lazy Boy (1755) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Lazy Boy (French - Le Petit Paresseux) is a 1755 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. It depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.
Despite having many lost works and fewer than 25 attributed major works – including numerous unfinished works – he created some of the most influential paintings in the Western canon. [3] The Mona Lisa is his best known work and is the world's most famous individual painting.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1877. [4] Her parents were Emma (née Jones) Warrick, an accomplished wig maker and beautician for upperclass white women, [5] and William H. Warrick, a successful barber and caterer.
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
The paintings varied from large frescoes of Ajanta to the intricate Mughal miniature paintings to the metal embellished works from the Tanjore school. The paintings from the Gandhar–Taxila are influenced by the Persian works in the west. The eastern style of painting was mostly developed around the Nalanda school of art.
His father, Battista, was a dyer – tintore in Italian and tintor in Venetian; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy". [4] Tintoretto is known to have had at least one sibling, a brother named Domenico, although an unreliable 17th-century account says his siblings numbered 22. [ 5 ]
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions ...