The story of Dibutades who painted the outline of her boyfriend's shadow, leading to early struggles with the optics of cast shadows, their use as cues to depth and shape, and appearance in landscapes. Paintings of shadow play.
To enable Theseus to retrace his steps out of the Labyrinth, Ariadne gives him a ball of thread, in return for which he promises to marry her. Once the couple escape to the island of Naxos, Theseus abandons her and sails back to Athens.
A painting for England's King Charles I to encourage him to make peace with Spain, left by Rubens in 1630. Its figures make clear the meaning of war, as explained here.
The following extracts are taken from Eusebius’ Church History. All emphasis is mine.
Book III
Chapter 2. The First Successor to St. Peter in Rome.
- After the martyrdom of Paul and of Peter, Linus was the first to obtain the episcopate of the church at Rome. Paul mentions him, when writing to Timothy from Rome, in the salutation at the end of the epistle.
Chapter 3. The Epistles of the…
When you see the same face in a mirror that you presume that figure can also see, despite that being optically impossible. An exploration.
Masks as symbols of theatre and drama, in ancient times, from Noh theatre in Japonisme, in masked balls, and in carnivals.
Over two months after Winter Storm Fern swept through Mississippi, residents remain ineligible for individual assistance awarded by the federal government. Meanwhile, efforts to pass recovery bills through the State Legislature have been hampered by disagreements between lawmakers and the governor.
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St. Irenaeus mentions what the Apostle John exclaimed when he ran into the gnostic heretic Cerinthus. He also recalls what his Bishop St. Polycarp, the beloved and holy martyr and disciple of the holy Apostles, said to the heretic Marcion when he saw him in person. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 3 A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various churches, a perpetual…
Unusual self-portraits painted using mirrors by Courbet, Corinth, Bonnard, Gentileschi, Peeters, and Velázquez.
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