Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Monday, 27 September 2010
From the magazines of October, 1914. Belgian Soldiers Shoot a German Spy Caught at Termonde.
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From the magazines of October, 1914. Belgian Soldiers Shoot a German Spy Caught at Termonde. It was special the staff for the magazine and the spy was not present. This photo was popular in those days and at least was printed in two British magazines: "The War Budget" and "The War Illustrated"
Friday, 24 September 2010
John Payne - The Mirrour which Flatters not
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John Payne - The Mirrour which Flatters not. The Mirrour which Flatters not is an engraving, probably by the 17th century English artist John Payne, which appears in a 1639 translation of a book of the same title. The engraving depicts a skeleton dressed in the regalia of a king, seated on a throne of skulls, with its left foot atop a globe, a scepter in its right hand, and a mirror in its left hand, inscribed with the words "The Mirrour which Flatters not."
Epigraphs inscribed beneath the engraving read "O that they were Wise, that they understood This, that they would Consider their Latter End! Deut. 32:29" and "–Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula,—Iuvenal."
"Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is."