- Come and get your Chardzhou melons! Sweet as honey, smooth as a maiden! Step up, snap them up!
As you see, the first to swoop down was the Italian master of still life Antonio Tibaldi (1635-1675).
The painting is in the display «Flowers, Fruits and Musical Instruments in Italian Baroque Painting» at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
