Tag: Diogenes
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10 Works, Today, June 13th. is Jan Victors’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #161
After curing Tobit’s blindness, returning the family’s wealth, and making it possible for Tobit’s son Tobias to marry his beloved Sarah, the Archangel Raphael has dropped his disguise and revealed himself as an angel, saying, “I was not acting on my own will, but by the will of God.” Such a scene of miraculous intervention…
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John William Waterhouse, Diogenes 01 Paintings, Athenian philosophers, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 32
John William Waterhouse, (1849–1917) Diogenes, c. 1882 Oil on canvas 208,3 × 134,6 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC…
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