This "Nemesis" is one of the first engravings with such realistic proportions of the human body. Dürer is believed to have worked on it with extraordinary care, using compasses and calculating instruments in order to depict the human body not as an ideal, but as it is in reality. His starting point was the foundation of human anatomy laid by the humanists of the Renaissance
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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
