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She is lovely. No blurb unfortunately! Looks like it was auctioned off.

https://www.artnet.com/artists/jusepe-de-ribera/maria-maddalena-in-meditazione-3dbk0HO-xH3P6NBMsLwgwg2

Hawaii’s upland rivers provide a safe haven from predators for young gobies while also acting as a resource for food. To access these waters, gobies must face a treacherous climb, pulling themselves up an enormous waterfall using the suction from their mouths and fins. The journey can take days and around 99 percent of these tiny fish perish before they reach the top.

Courtesy of PBS

'Venus and Anchises' was inspired by a verse from a poem called the 'Epipsychidion', by Shelley.

'Athwart that wintry wilderness of thorns
Flashed from her motion splendour like the morn's, And from her presence life was radiated
Through the grey earth and branches bare and dead; So that her way was paved and roofed above
With flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love; '

Richmond shows us the meeting at night, of Venus and her earthly lover, the Trojan shepherd Anchises, on Mount Ida. Venus, clothed in glowing pink and gold walks towards Anchises, who awaits her holding a lyre. Anchises, clad in a red shirt, appears to cower in the shadow of a tree. The usual penalty for mortals such as he for looking at a god or goddess was to be turned into stone.

The picture is not a simple illustration of a mythical event, but demonstrates the transforming power of love. Night has turned into day. In the bottom right of the picture there are the dead leaves of autumn, but wherever Venus walks she becomes surrounded by spring flowers and apple blossom. She is accompanied by lions and a flight of doves which disperse a group of sparrows. Although the event depicted is rooted in ancient Greek mythology, Richmond chooses to show the dramatic awakening of a northern landscape in an English spring. The offspring of the union between Venus and Anchises was Aeneas, the legendary ancestor of the Romans.

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/venus-and-anchises

It’s the dog throwing up for me😳