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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World (coloured version) The Lost Boy (1913)

A version of When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World that I coloured, after finding a picture of the original painting online at an American Antiques Roadshow page.

Keywords: colour, paintings, religion, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-16

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Ecce Ancilla Domini Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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The Boy was the Joy of the Journey The Lost Boy (1913)

“The Boy was the joy of the journey. His keen interest in all things seen and heard was like a refreshing spring of water to the older pilgrims, who had so often traveled the same road that they had f [...]

Keywords: children, paintings, people, bare feet, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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Page 67. Heaven and Earth. Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Heaven, Earth, and intermediate spheres (or layers) of the skies. The moon looks depressed.

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: religion, astrology, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-11

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Page 113. Four Footed Beasts. Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Cow and camel, Elk and Elephant (or is that a unicorn on the right?), lion and horse, rabbit and hound!

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: animals, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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Page 151. Birds of the Air. Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Eagle and duck, peacock and rooster, jackdaw and goose! (what else?)

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: birds, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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Strange and Fantastical Creatures Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

I cannot read the text (it’s in mediæval German), so these descriptions are arbitrary; I’d welcome better descriptions. Duck with head of dog Sea-lion? Winged two-legged horse strange clawed bull-like [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, paintings, colour, drolleries

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-02-13

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Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history. The mermaid has the trunk and head of a woman, the tail of a [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, paintings, colour, drolleries, drawings, sketches

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-02-14

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Page 395. Herodotus people Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

A fire in the background, with smoke; a woman in mediaeval dress drinks a cup of coffee froma styofoam cup; nine naked people wander around. These are the people described by the “historian” Herodotus [...]

Keywords: people, colour, nudity, bare feet, paintings

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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130.—Palazzo Sanudo Venice (1907)

A grand arch in a crumbling wall on the opposite side of a canal in Venice marks an entrance to the palace of Sanudo. If, before leaving the campo, we make a short journey on foot along the Salizzada [...]

Keywords: paintings, art, doorways, canals, water, doors, architecture, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-02

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1800.—Tric-trac, by Teniers. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Four men are playing at dice, a game called tric-trac. A discarded clay pipe on the floor, together with a wine-jug and an open tankard, hint at moral excesses. The men wear seventeenth-century costum [...]

Keywords: art, paintings, people, games, dice, beards, gaming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-02

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Poitiers. Cathedral Cities of France (1907)

Saint Pierre at Poitiers [...] certain characteristics it has which connect it with the Angevin style, but unlike most of the Angevin churches, it has aisles throughout. From the outside the appearan [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, paintings, art, cities, cathedrals, churches, roofs, sunsets, rivers, water, bridges, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Poitiers; Poitou-Charentes; France

Added: 2012-05-31

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