A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s

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A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s

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Do we know how scientifically accurate that is? :wink:
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[quote=APoD]Clearly drawn is not only a total solar eclipse, but the solar corona and the diamond ring effect visible when sunlight flows only between mountains on the Moon.[/quote]
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Denny wrote:
APoD wrote:Clearly drawn is not only a total solar eclipse, but the solar corona and the diamond ring effect visible when sunlight flows only between mountains on the Moon.
Well, yes, I read that. But I was wondering about the cherubim and halo.
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The frame seems a bit excessive.
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kkrell wrote:The frame seems a bit excessive.
Wow, no kidding. Reminds me of the decorations in Versailles.
Good to know the Sun King didn't have the worst decorator...
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The columns on either side look like they were inspired from a large intestine!

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If the aesthetic nadir of WestCiv is a spectrum with, say, KISS or paintings on black velvet on one end, this would be on the other if not the thing itself. Yikes.
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Can you say Rococo?

I knew you could! :wink:
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Nanohedron wrote:If the aesthetic nadir of WestCiv is a spectrum with, say, KISS or paintings on black velvet on one end, this would be on the other if not the thing itself. Yikes.
Does that make this painting the ... the zenith ... or... I'm confused.
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kkrell wrote:The frame seems a bit excessive.
I wanna know where they got the nicotine-stained wiggly marble.
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Innocent Bystander wrote:Can you say Rococo?
Those gargoyles are neo-gothic, not rococo or even neo-rococo (a term which to my recollection has not yet been applied to graceland, but should).
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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Congratulations wrote: Well, yes, I read that. But I was wondering about the cherubim and halo.
No. That's a baby dropping a glow in the dark frisbee.
Bad baby. Bad.
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drugs have changed so much in the last couple hundred years....
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s1m0n wrote:
Innocent Bystander wrote:Can you say Rococo?
Those gargoyles are neo-gothic, not rococo or even neo-rococo (a term which to my recollection has not yet been applied to graceland, but should).
Agreed. But I thought you'd like something ornate that was on the same continent as you.
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