And also for forcing oneself to believe that this picture of a basket of plums was painted in 1629 by the French artist Louise Moillon!
Louise Moillon won renown for her exact still lifes. In the course of her life she produced only some 40 canvases, but her talent was so highly prized that she enjoyed the personal patronage of Charles I, King of England
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
