Following Pegasus ...
The Baron von Münchhausen reaches and boards the Galleon of the Flying Dutchman. By following Pegasus they are about to start together a journey towards the Moon.
Baron von Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels". The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797).
After hearing some of Münchhausen's stories, Raspe adapted them anonymously into literary form, first in German as ephemeral magazine pieces and then in English as the book, which was first published in Oxford.. The book was soon translated into other European languages, including a German version.
The fictional Baron's exploits, narrated in the first person, focus on his impossible achievements as a sportsman, soldier, and traveller, for instance riding on a cannonball, fighting a forty-foot crocodile, and travelling to the Moon. Intentionally comedic, the stories play on the absurdity and inconsistency of Munchausen's claims, and contain an undercurrent of social satire.
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the Dutch East India Company. The oldest extant version has been dated to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.
Pegasus (Greek: Πήγασος, Latin: Pegasus, Pegasos) is a famous pterippus, a mythical winged divine stallion who is one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology. Pegasus is usually depicted as pure white in color. Pegasus is a child of the Olympian god Poseidon. He sprang from the blood issuing from the Gorgon Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus.
Since the Middle Ages the mythical winged horse has inspired many works of fantasy to poets and artists.
Galleon : Sarel Theron
Texture and background : my own
Pegasus : photomanipulated from an old print.
Created for : MIXMASTER CHALLENGE #30 Chef : studiodobs www.flickr.com/groups/artisticmanipulation/discuss/721577...
Artistic Manipulation Group : www.flickr.com/groups/1000750@N24/
Following Pegasus ...
The Baron von Münchhausen reaches and boards the Galleon of the Flying Dutchman. By following Pegasus they are about to start together a journey towards the Moon.
Baron von Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels". The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797).
After hearing some of Münchhausen's stories, Raspe adapted them anonymously into literary form, first in German as ephemeral magazine pieces and then in English as the book, which was first published in Oxford.. The book was soon translated into other European languages, including a German version.
The fictional Baron's exploits, narrated in the first person, focus on his impossible achievements as a sportsman, soldier, and traveller, for instance riding on a cannonball, fighting a forty-foot crocodile, and travelling to the Moon. Intentionally comedic, the stories play on the absurdity and inconsistency of Munchausen's claims, and contain an undercurrent of social satire.
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the Dutch East India Company. The oldest extant version has been dated to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.
Pegasus (Greek: Πήγασος, Latin: Pegasus, Pegasos) is a famous pterippus, a mythical winged divine stallion who is one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology. Pegasus is usually depicted as pure white in color. Pegasus is a child of the Olympian god Poseidon. He sprang from the blood issuing from the Gorgon Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus.
Since the Middle Ages the mythical winged horse has inspired many works of fantasy to poets and artists.
Galleon : Sarel Theron
Texture and background : my own
Pegasus : photomanipulated from an old print.
Created for : MIXMASTER CHALLENGE #30 Chef : studiodobs www.flickr.com/groups/artisticmanipulation/discuss/721577...
Artistic Manipulation Group : www.flickr.com/groups/1000750@N24/