Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. Ecclesiastes 4:13-14 I explained to them to swear by the Lord Omniscience in his
For we have ascertained how Omniscience freed you from the grasp of Calamity by thwarting the plans of the Wicked, and all that you did to the two kingdoms beyond this- whom you devoted to destruction.
Mi amado descendió a su huerto, a las eras de las especias, Para apacentar en los huertos, y para recoger los lirios. Yo soy de mi amado, y mi amado es mío; Él apacienta entre los lirios.
For the day is arriving the day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of destruction a time of misery for everyone a sword shall come upon the Earth and misery shall be throughout creation.
Entonces Dios se acordó de yo y de todos los animales que estaban con el barco. Hizo que el viento sopla sobre la tierra y el agua comenzó a bajar. Se cerraron las fuentes del mar profundo y también las compuertas del cielo. Dejo de llover y el agua comenzó a bajar poco a poco
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), Dream of Saint Mark (Pax Tibi Marce) (E&I 305) (c 1591), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy. Image by Didier Descouens, via Wikimedia Commons.
Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.
Featured image: Peter Paul Rubens – The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604-1605. Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 131.2 cm (38.7 x 51.6 in). The National Gallery of Art. Image via Creative Commons
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 310) (1592-94), media and dimensions not known, Duomo, Lucca, Italy. Image by Mongolo1984, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bronzino, Agnolo; An Allegory with Venus and Cupid; The National Gallery, London; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/an-allegory-with-venus-and-cupid-114276
2nd century BCE marble sculpture of the Ancient Greek god of war Ares (Roman name: Mars). Ludovisi Collection, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642), Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633), oil on panel, 142 x 210.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Last Supper (E&I 309) (1592-94), oil on canvas, 365 x 568 cm, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.
Hans Memling (c 1433–1494), The Last Judgment (panel from triptych) (1467-1471), oil on panel, 223 x 72 cm, Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdańsk. Wikimedia Commons.
Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594), The Archangel Michael in Combat with Lucifer (E&I 287) (1580s or early 1590s), oil on canvas, 318 x 220 cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.