January 12, 2013

balsiek:

Ligier Richier - Transi de René de Châlon, 1547

(Source: blue-voids, via fishstickmonkey)

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Filed under: sculpture memento mori 16th Century France death tomb 
June 13, 2012
According to the fanciful vision of Carlos Fuentes in Terra Nostra, Philip II of Spain - who ordered the Spanish Armada - cloistered himself in the sprawling palace-tomb complex at El Escorial, which Lorca once described as “the sad place from which all the cold rains in the Earth come.” (Philip II Holding a Rosary by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1573)

According to the fanciful vision of Carlos Fuentes in Terra Nostra, Philip II of Spain - who ordered the Spanish Armada - cloistered himself in the sprawling palace-tomb complex at El Escorial, which Lorca once described as “the sad place from which all the cold rains in the Earth come.”

(Philip II Holding a Rosary by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1573)

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Filed under: 1588 Carlos Fuentes El Escorial Lorca Philip II Spain armada history painting tomb art