Month: October 2013
The Seventh Plague, hail and fire, 1823, oil on canvas by John Martin, 1789-1854, British Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
This painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA..
Detail of the gods Artemis, Pan and Apollon from a painting depicting the exposure of the infant Aigisthos, son of Thyestes. Artemis wears a quiver and holds in her hands a bow and arrows. The tiny figure of Pan, or Paniskos (little Pan), holds a conch-shell horn, and bow and quiver hanging from a club. Apollon is seated with a branch of laurel, swan and leopard.
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