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The history of this picture can be traced right back to the beginning. Vasari mentions it as being in the house of a Modenese doctor, Francesco Grillenzoni; in 1582 Cardinal Luigi d'Este bought it, and presented it to Catarina Nobili Sforza, Countess of Santa Fiora and grand-niece of Pope Julius III.
A longma (lower left corner) on a rubbing from the Wu Liang shrines' reliefs. Longma or "dragon horse" connects with other creatures in Chinese folklore.While longma sometimes applies to the Qilin, [13] the closest relative is the legendary tianma 天馬 "heavenly horse" or the "Chinese Pegasus", which was metaphorically identified with the hanxuema 汗血馬 "blood-sweating horse" or Ferghana ...
Paolo Veronese, Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1571, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a c.1575 oil-on-canvas painting by Paolo Veronese, produced as the high altarpiece for Santa Caterina church in Venice.
Horses are real creatures, of the family Equidae—quick-paced, hoofed quadrupeds, existing now and historically, in China, among other places. Many breeds have been used or developed for food, transportation, and for military power for thousands of years, in the area of China, and elsewhere, as well as sometimes being loved or cherished, as pets companions, or inspirations for art.
In Journey to the West, the Bai Longma is a dragon prince who is the third son of the Dragon King of the West Sea. He once accidentally set a fire that destroyed a pearl that was a gift from the Jade Emperor. He was about to be executed for committing this offense when Guanyin appeared and pleaded for his life.
Taylor has also spoken candidly about needing to retreat from the spotlight, telling TIME (re: backlash following Kim/Kanye drama), "I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house ...
Tu Er Shen: managed the love and sex between homosexual men; Wenchang Wang: god of culture and literature; Wong Tai Sin: possessed healing power; Wu Gang: endlessly cut down a self-healing bay laurel on the moon; Xi Wangmu: Queen Mother of the West; Xiang River goddesses (Xiangfei) É huáng (娥皇) Nǚ yīng (女英). Xihe, goddess of the sun
Because the nature of what is erotic is fluid, [5] early definitions of the term attempted to conceive eroticism as some form of sensual or romantic love or as the human sex drive ; for example, the Encyclopédie of 1755 states that the erotic "is an epithet which is applied to everything with a connection to the love of the sexes; one employs ...