Argh to the “author” (or regurgitator?) – definitely at ERB, who has had a good excuse since 1950 — but even though this painting may be public domain, doesn’t mean they can’t attribute it to the actual artist?!?
My art history fails me, and so did “Search for the image on Google” – but if it’s not Michaelangelo then I apologize!
If ERB could have traveled back to the 16th century, I’d think that said artist would have had a different idea of a God of Mars!! Of course, Mars wasn’t discovered & named until 1610 by Galileo, so good luck ERB on convincing 16th century or earlier artists!!
Or, in short: If someone asks if you’re a God of Mars, YOU…SAY…YES!!!
Thanks. I thought I’d lost my damn mind. May I ask how you found it, if you didn’t immediately recognize it? I did a reverse image search, using both Goog and Tineye and came up with bupkus. ?
AH-hah. Got it. Good thinking. I simply used the image and tried to find the center portion with the God, lightning bolts and the other female character. I was surprised when it wasn’t found, even after I cropped off the title and byline!
Has there been a sudden discovery that ERB is PD, and a sudden rush to post bad optical character scannings of the texts, without copy editing? After the flurries of releases of unedited badly formatted public domain texts of EAP and HPL … you would hope not.
The good news, such as it is, is that I don’t seek public-domain atrocities out. But when one stumbles into my field of vision, and I start exploring the other clueless and careless ebook editions…
Smoppet
3 years ago
Couldn’t use that Frank Frazetta, huh? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Argh to the “author” (or regurgitator?) – definitely at ERB, who has had a good excuse since 1950 — but even though this painting may be public domain, doesn’t mean they can’t attribute it to the actual artist?!?
My art history fails me, and so did “Search for the image on Google” – but if it’s not Michaelangelo then I apologize!
If ERB could have traveled back to the 16th century, I’d think that said artist would have had a different idea of a God of Mars!! Of course, Mars wasn’t discovered & named until 1610 by Galileo, so good luck ERB on convincing 16th century or earlier artists!!
Or, in short: If someone asks if you’re a God of Mars, YOU…SAY…YES!!!
Are you sure that’s Michaelangelo????
?
Mars was known and named long before Galileo.
Interesting – the search I did said it was discovered and named by Galileo – I guess I didn’t research enough, my bad!
It’s actually “Sala dei Giganti” or “The Fall of the Giants” by Giulio Romano (1532)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Giants_(Romano)
Thanks. I thought I’d lost my damn mind. May I ask how you found it, if you didn’t immediately recognize it? I did a reverse image search, using both Goog and Tineye and came up with bupkus. ?
Reverse image search using the additional term “Zeus”. I just assumed the dude with the lightning bolts was him.
AH-hah. Got it. Good thinking. I simply used the image and tried to find the center portion with the God, lightning bolts and the other female character. I was surprised when it wasn’t found, even after I cropped off the title and byline!
I thought that was Hi Festus, Thor’s Greek cousin.
Last I heard, he was hanging out with Doc and Kitty, in Dodge City in the 1870’s, amirite?
Awesome, thank you!
Has there been a sudden discovery that ERB is PD, and a sudden rush to post bad optical character scannings of the texts, without copy editing? After the flurries of releases of unedited badly formatted public domain texts of EAP and HPL … you would hope not.
But it’s here. Who’s next? REH?
The good news, such as it is, is that I don’t seek public-domain atrocities out. But when one stumbles into my field of vision, and I start exploring the other clueless and careless ebook editions…
Couldn’t use that Frank Frazetta, huh? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)