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Showing posts with label stratiote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stratiote. Show all posts
26 June 2011

The Duel between Manessi and Caragusa

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I was reading my favorite writer's -- Sir Thomas Brown e's --  Musaeum Clausum (1684+) in which he creates a museum of pictures a...
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06 August 2010

Blacks

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--> 15th C. Ag. Nikolaos Orphanos, Thessalonike Scene from the life of Ag. Gerasimos.    I have been saving images of blacks i...
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12 December 2009

The Singular Stratiote

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These marvellous striped stockings, much gimped, are all that remain of the figure of a stratiote in a Cretan fresco of military saints, ...
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