Paris chooses which of three goddesses, Minerva, Venus or Juno, is to receive the golden apple

Paris chooses which of three goddesses, Minerva, Venus or Juno, is to receive the golden apple. The work of the brilliant Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known by the pseudonym Antico, c. 1460–1528. Bronze, silvered and gilded. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like many other works by Pier Jacopo Bonacolsi, this sculpture probably had an ancient marble prototype, about which, however, nothing is known. But mark it well: a splendid little belly is the youthful canon of antiquity

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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

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

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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

Paris chooses which of three goddesses, Minerva, Venus or Juno, is to receive the golden apple

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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

Frederic Leighton

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