Tag: Jeremy Mann
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jeremy Mann’s The Death Angel, with footnotes
In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. “The destroyer” kills the first-born of the Egyptians, and the “destroying angel” rages among the people in Jerusalem. The “angel of the Lord” is seen by David standing “between the earth and the heaven,…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 24
Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz Chrysanthemums/ Madame Butterfly, ca. 1900 Oil on canvas 81 x 55 cm Propiedad de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Málaga Madame Butterfly: In 1904, a U.S. naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. Her real name is Ciocio-san. She is…