John Gray, "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals", 2002:
"...The qualities we say we value above all others cannot withstand ordinary life. Happily, we do not value them as much as we say we do..."
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, January 12 2024:
"...Ancient mythology meets cheeky realism in this fresco from an Italian villa. The man staring back at you at the right, who stands outside the painted story, has a face etched with character, sadness and experience. His eyes disrupt the calm landscape where the god Apollo is slaying a one-eyed giant. Apollo was a figure of reason and harmony, who in another story has the satyr (one of a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods.) Marsyas flayed alive for beating him in a musical contest. Is the man who intrudes on the scene a modern Marsyas? At his feet a cat kills a bird and apples are depicted with perfect accuracy. Humble facts mock heroic fantasies."
Apollo Killing the Cyclops by Domenichino, c 1616-18
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