Fable, c. 1600

Fable, c. 1600

The painting. El Greco's Fable is an enigmatic work of art whose meaning and date of origin have provoked much speculation among art historians. In the center of the painting, a young boy (or perhaps a girl?) is blowing at a fire held with the left hand, trying to revive the flame to light a small candle held in the right hand. To the left, behind the youth, a chained monkey with an intelligent...

Women, Violence and Urban Justice in Holland c. 1600-1838

Automated Reconstruction of Fragmented , 1600 B . C . Wall Paintings

In this paper a novel general methodology is introduced for the computer-aided reconstruction of the magnificent wall-paintings of the Greek island Thera, painted in the middle of the second millennium BC. These wall-paintings are excavated in fragments and, as a result, their reconstruction is a painstaking and a time-consuming process. Therefore, in order to facilitate and speed up this proce...

From Farm to Fable

had came to me while I was milking a cow.” Though spurious, his comment underscores how the memories of farm life from his youth provided substance and inspiration for much of his artwork, particularly his landscapes. Wood was in fact born on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa, in 1891, and he lived there until his father died in 1901. His family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, soon thereafter, when Wood w...

“ Fact , Fable , and Darwin ”

I write as neither a creationist nor a Darwinist, but as one who knows what is probably the most disreputable scientific secret of the past century: There is no plausible scientific theory of the origin of species! Darwin himself was not sure he had produced one, and for many decades every competent evolutionary biologist has known that he did not. Although the experts have kept quiet when true...