Images Dated 15th November 2005

The Painter and his Pug , 1745. Artist: William Hogarth

The Painter and his Pug, 1745. The portrait deliberately projects a guide to the way Hogarth wanted others to think of him. The artist's painting in informal dress rests on a pile of books labelled (in the finished engraving) Shakespeare, Milton and Swift. William Shakespeare and John Milton were generally acknowledged to be the greatest modern English authors and Jonathan Swift was a vigorous modern satirist. The palette and graver represent Hogarth's twin roles as painter and engraver and the Line of Beauty alludes to his favourite art theory. The only living object in the painting is Hogarth's pet pug, Trump. Hogarth announces himself as essentially English. He despised the slavish following of foreign models, and believed that art should be based on the imitation of nature, like the work of the great English authors

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Marines and sailors fast-rope from a CH-53E Super Stallion

Aboard the USS Essex, November 15, 2006 - Marines and sailors fast-rope from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter onto the flight deck during for fast-rope training

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Judgement of Paris (1645-1646). Artist: Claude Lorrain

Judgement of Paris (1645-1646). Paris of Troy is called on to judge the most beautiful of three godesses. Minerva offers him victory in battle, Juno offers a great empire, Venus with her son Cupid proposes the most desirable woman as his reward and later helps him to abduct Helen of Troy, starting the Trojan war

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