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Good Friday (#Orthodox)
Descent from the Cross, depicted in three versions by Peter Paul #Rubens. #art #paintings
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille-- Left
Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp--Upper Right
Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg--Lower Right
#OTD 1512, Battle of #Ravenna, major part of the War of the League of Cambrai in the #Italian Wars, was won by Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston of Foix(†) against #Spanish-Papal troops of Fabrizio Colonna. #History
Death of Gaston of Foix,Ary Scheffer, c. 1824
Painting of Helios (as Personification of Midday,c. 1765), Greek God and personification of the Sun by Neoclassical German painter Anton Raphael Mengs. He was the son of the Titans Hyperion&Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the dawn).#FolkloreThursday
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, #Italian Mannerist painter known for his portraits made of fruits, vegetables, flowers.
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons (L)
Four Seasons in One Head, National Gallery of Art, USA (R)
#FolkloreThursday
In Romanian mythology the iele were similar to nymphs, spirits who would display wrath if interrupted by making intruders mute for life or hounding them to death through dancing. It was said that the silver thistle (Carlina acaulis) greatly reduced their powers #FolkloreThursday
In medieval Wallachia and Transylvania it was believed that every house had a guardian snake near the foundation and was said that killing it would bring the imminent death of a member of the household. #FolkloreThursday
Jan von Goyen (1633) Peasant Huts with a Sweep Well
@FolkloreThurs Witches' Sabbath (1798) by Spanish Painter Francisco Goya, with the devil incarnated as a crowned goat surrounded by a coven of witches, young and old, and being offered a child for either initiation or for feasting. #FolkloreThursday