Somebody know wit h is this? Perhaps I shouldn't say, but I feel compelled to state that this fellow has always reminded me of Baby Huey from the cartoon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Huey Also, it bears remembering: http://www.online-literature.com/poe/575/ There's my grand contribution for t...

Oh well, you know me Marcos, Huck, et al., not the greatest proponent of new theories, however I very much enjoyed the language in that snippet of Virgil. Isn't this gorgeous?: "...and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew" [/b] No wonder he ended up in Limbo instead of Hell....

hiero means sacred in Greek glyph is short for glyphein which means to carve in Greek A true hieroglyph is a sacred carving. Literally. The Chinese have used ideographs for centuries, but if you think about it, every single word in any language is a hieroglyph, or was at some point before paper beca...

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mikeh wrote: The conclusion is not that Pisanello did the cards, but that either he, or someone familiar with his work, or someone who copied the style of someone familiar with his work, did so.

That I agree with.

If he did not know who painted the cards, he appears to have made an assumption.Therefore why? Because he could. That's what so-called experts do in these matters. Doesn't make it true, but they do like to make these associative leaps. I'm a skeptic, there have to be a few around to bug the hell ou...

(1, alchemy.) One is suggested by a 16th century alchemical illustration, which seems to have been well enough known that William Blake used it in his depiction of the element Air in his "Book of Urizen," I'm dubious about that one. It's similar , but Blake excelled at twisting the human ...

Do you ever watch the Antiques Roadshow? Very often on that program, someone will bring in an item that has a history in the family, and they discover that the family had the wrong information, particularly about where something originated from. I don't think these things are deliberate hoaxes, but ...

If you search Gallenga, you will see the fabrics and clothing that does look like the fabrics of the Visconti cards. I don't particularly see the Pisanello tie-in. That's seems fairly biased/associative on your part for me, since there is no evidence and no one mentions him. Much like our day, desi...

Apart from my delight in the English bastardization "gleek," I find it rather sad that we don't often get together and play card games any more. I was up at someone's cottage recently, and there were three children in the family and all they did was watch DVDs or television. We used to pla...