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Ixion by Cornelis Bloemaert (1655-92)

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Yuri Klapouh (Ukrainian b.1963), Apple Tree, Oil on canvas

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me, flirting: you could probably catch me easily if you chased me through the forest

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L. Kate Deal, “Child-library Readers”, Book Four, 1924 Source

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Gustave Baumann, Spring Day, 1918

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Jean-François Rauzier — The Library of Babel (c-type print, mounted on aluminium, 2013)

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Dmitry Kochanovich (Russian, b. 1972)

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Gustave Doré - Deer in a Pine Forest (1865)

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Alois Kalvoda - Landscape with Birches (n.d.)

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The first problem anyone encounters when trying to understand [Hermes] is directly attributable to the very diversity of his activities. They are so varied that modern scholars have been unable to reach a consensus as to what quality or concept holds them all together, some even arguing that there is no such unifying feature to be found. The closest we can come to identifying any ‘core’ to Hermes, according to Parker, is to group his activities into a triad associated with ‘transition / communication / exchange’. It may well be the case, again as noted by Parker, that the diversity of Hermes’ activities arises ‘not on the basis of the internal logic of a central core’ but rather from what he terms ‘the principle ... of “one thing leads to another”’.

– Arlene Allan, Hermes (from Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World)

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Franz von Stuck The Kiss of the Sphinx 1890-1914 Charcoal, pastel and chalk on grey paper, 520 x 460 mm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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William Nicholson The black pansy 1910

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Marvels of the universe : a popular work on the marvels of the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal life, the mighty deep - 1913 - via Internet Archive

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Bat became the emblem on a sistrum, related to Hathor, which appears on the top of her columns of her main temple of Dendera. 

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Nubie. Temple d'Abou Simbel, dédié à Athor (Égypte) 1870s Félix Bonfils (French, 1831 - 1885)

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The Sun eclipsed by Earth, as it would appear on the Moon, illustrated by James Nasmyth, 1874.

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1926 Serge Lifar in "Romeo et Juliette", costumes designed by Joan Miro, photo by Man Ray. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.