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I have read somewhere that you can quote up to four lines, with mention of the author and the publisher (same for songs).

"Again, the print is not the reality for me. It shows peasants amid a rustic village, terraced hillsides, a lone tree jutting from the slope of the hill to the right, a snowcapped Fuji partly eclipsed by the base of the rise." ---from 24 Views Ame ni mo Mazeku not losing to the rain not...

So, these are bees, after all... Maybe there are cases in which, as Mad Tam says, the bees just fly away...

Hi, Seph! Very interesting.... More kites..... (non-traditional)

Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) Italian mannerist painter Sofonisba was one of the first women to gain a international reputation as a painter. Born in Cremona (Lombardy), she studied under Campi until he moved away and this established a precedent of encouraging male painters to take...

And this one.... floating Medusa

Kites, more kites

Josefa de Ayala, again... Jose e menino (Joseph and the Child)

Hi, ctg, It was a little difficult to concentrate on the text without being distracted by a few little problems, but I am intrigued and if I had begun reading this story "for real", I would definitely want to read more. There is a little confusion with the string of "he" (who is who) at...

Hi, ctg, I hope this helps. I've seen your post in Critiques (I'm going to read it right now). You could post other examples here (I don't think this is critique stuff either, it's more about rules and tools for writing). Edit: I didn't mean that your text in Critiques is not right for...

Darp! "Know" got eaten by the voracious sword...

Why "Show, don't tell"? This is SF writer Robert J. Sawyer's explanation: "First, what's the difference between the two? Well, "telling" is the reliance on simple exposition: Mary was an old woman. "Showing," on the other hand, is the use of evocative description: Mary moved slowly across...

Hi, Bloated, It works. It's sharp, effective, dramatic. Rubescant has tinkered with a few sentences (you how she is). Here's the thing.

Hey, Ben, the little green diode is on. Were you taken along with your browser? I very much like Josefa de Ayala (Josefa de Óbidos), Portuguese, but Spanish born baroque painter (already posted two paintings on the previous page). Well, I'll post another one (ah, look at the facial...

My comp is shutting down (upgrades are lurking in the background). Just the time to post a painting from a contemporary surrealist, Claude Cordier. Maybe Acoma will rescue Ben from the browser hijacking. Oh, and I'll be back (just rebooting the darped thing).

Black holes dancing in the dark, Novae, quarks, loops whirl and throb. I did tell my faithful lark, "Time has changed. Change your job!". But the herald of the day, As the dawn grew rosy cheeks, Cocked its head and said, "Nay. 'Tis from love I get my kicks."

Thank you, fellow Chrons. There are lots of exhibitions on female painters around the world as we write, so I thought our favourite forum should tune in. 1) Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) "Ritratto di una nobildonna" (Portrait of a Noblewoman) It is (probably) the portrait of a Bolognese...

Strong, very strong. Powerful! It's an anti-conformist's way of rendering a traditional area for female painters: the portrait.

Very beautiful! Thank you, Ben, for sharing. Josefa de Ayala (Josefa de Óbidos) (1630-1684): A Portuguese artist, Josefa de Ayala painted a wide variety of themes, from portraits and still life paintings to religion and mythology. Take a look at the expressions on the...

Thank you, Ben. These are splendid. I had never seen the one with the hedgehog. Did you know that "hedgehog" and the spiky coat around the chestnut (whassitcalled in AAAAnglish) are both called RICCIO in Italian (a little homonymy that Giovanna Garzoni represented here)?