Nicolas de Larmessin (1640-1725) was an enormously creative and productive artist, and in his way created a genre similar to the great and ancient Dance of Death/.Danse Macabre/Totentanz--though his was the Dance of Life. Or perhaps it was something less political and philosophical, simply showing itself as a Dance of Work, A Satire of Occupation. (In the earlier, 14 & 15th century printed version of the Dance of Death, which shows death coming to people of different professions, that the earliest meetings between death and its intended depict death done only in bones, and is relatively scary; later on, moving into the 17 and 18th centuries, death occasionally wears some elements of the profession of the person whom he seeks, giving the expedition a little share of irony or dark comedic relief. In general, though I find the Wolgement, Holbein, Durer varieties of death-hungry Death to be fairly well off-putting; those later on less so.)
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E ora che ho sparpagliato libri e riviste sul letto, posso passare il resto del pomeriggio a evitare di schiacciarli mentre pisolo
So what do you do if you're a recently crowned Head of State and you're already facing opposition—even from within your own family? One answer is optics. Make a big, public splash; throw a lavish party with A-list musical entertainment. That's just what happened in London – 300 years ago today.
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This year [lo scorso anno] marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the best-loved and most frequently illustrated books in the history of literature — Don Quixote. Rachel Schmidt explores how the varying approaches to illustrating the tale have reflected and impacted its reading through the centuries.
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George A Romero, director of horror classic Night of the Living Dead, has died. He was 77.
In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Romero’s producing partner Peter Grunwald said the director died in his sleep after a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer”.
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questo è un piccolo campione; poco prima c'era un uliveto con due alberi enormi spaccati dalle fiamme, e il resto mezzi seccati, e poi pescheti, vigneti, incolti, quello che capita
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no, questi non sanno neppure che cos'è, ed è lontano dal tracciato, è tradizione di ogni anno bruciare tutto quello che si può bruciare, e soprattutto quando c'è scirocco a 40 gradi
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