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10/10/29 by holden
The Other Side Of The Tree
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10/10/27 by holden
Just A Tree Stump
Dimensions – 75″x71″Archive
10/10/25 by holden
Santa Cruz Seascape
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10/10/20 by holden
Muse 02054
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention a kingdom for a stage, princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Dimensions – 48″x96″Archive
10/10/11 by holden
Muse
One of the persons frequently associated with the Muses was Pierus. By some he was called the father of a total of seven Muses, called Neilo, Tritone, Asopo, Heptapora, Achelois, Tipoplo, and Rhodia. In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of [...]Archive
10/10/08 by holden
Muse
According to Hesiod’s Theogony they were daughters of Zeus, the second generation king of the gods, and the offspring of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities, Uranus and Gaia. Gaia is Mother Earth, an early mother goddess who was worshiped at Delphi from [...]Archive
10/09/17 by holden
Pegasus
Everywhere the winged horse struck his hoof to the earth, an inspiring spring burst forth. One of these springs was upon the Muses’ Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene (“horse spring”), opened, Antoninus Liberalis suggested, at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling with rapture at the song of the Muses; another was at Troezen. [...]Archive
10/09/16 by holden
Prometheus (Right Panel)
Angelo Casanova finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like [...]Archive
10/09/15 by holden