THE THREE GRACES ... why have i failed to make a scrapbook of the three ladies who inspired so much art ? ... better start right away with a painting by latecomer, LOVIS CORINTH ... and maybe then we can hark back to the origins ...

FIRST  ... painters need only the slightest of pretexts to rejoice in the female form and to IDEALIZE it ...

SECOND ... our THREE GRACES almost certainly originated in Ancient Greek mythology as THE THREE CHARITIES ... 

Before we go further ... THEOI.COM is your go-to source for all things greek-classical ...

THIRD ... As is typical of all mythologies, none of which are evidence-based, the content and meaning of every story evolves and alters with every telling ... it isn't really possible to define any myth as "the original" ... so perhaps "the earliest know version" is a better label

https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Kharites.html

ANTONIO CANOVA ...

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/38262

AUGUSTE MAILLOL

collateral damage in america to one of the graces sculpted by auguste maillol 

https://www.leviathanencyclopedia.com/article/Nymph_(Central_Figure_for_%22The_Three_Graces%22)

LUCAS CRANACH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Graces_(Cranach)

SANDRO BOTTICELLI

a section from the large painting, LA PRIMAVERA

HANS BALDUNG

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/harmony-the-three-graces/e909e7a1-1591-4bc1-a357-119c9b9d8eaa

RAPHAEL

RUBENS

AN UNKNOWN ARTIST AT POMPEII

TINTORETTO

RAPHAEL, again ...

RUBENS, again ...

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-three-graces/145eadd9-0b54-4b2d-affe-09af370b6932

RAPHAEL, again ...

PICASSO toyed with the theme ... here is a monochrome of THREE GRACES from 1923 ... and then came his THREE DANCERS of 1925 ...

FRANCOIS BOUCHER

WILLIAM ETTY

EDWARD BURNE-JONES ... two studies ...

https://www.eb-j.org/browse-artwork-detail/MjA0MDM=

LORD LEIGHTON

in bronze ... JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX

... TO BE CONTINUED ...

mixing your metaphors ... ship of state ... ship of fools ... you can't be sure which metaphor is the oldest ... but each remains relevant to the way we see our leaders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_State

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools

The Cheshire Cat ... and Schrodinger's Old Tom Cat ... A question follows ...

I have been photographing Schrodinger's Old Tom Cat since 2008 but it never crossed my mind until this afternoon that I might juxtapose him with The Cheshire Cat ...  

... and whilst I was prepping the Cheshire Cat on the screen, i noticed what seemd to be a scribbled word upon his forehead ...

i should be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me if it is a word, and how it got there ... ???

JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU MIGHT HOPE TO KNOW ABOUT THE CHESHIRE CAT IS COLLECTED IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ...

https://everything.explained.today/Cheshire_Cat/

THE PANTHEON OF FINE WIMMIN ... Part 99, Henrietta Swan Leavitt ... she calibrated the first CEPHEID VARIABLES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt

Forgive me for describing this YouTube fillum as a LUCID presentation ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcChCeX2VrY

What we know about Cepheid Variables so far, more than a century later ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable

a scrapbook introduction to the topic of SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ... the principles and the applications & benefits ... one of the aims of philosophers is TO KNOW THE WORLD ... this necessarily involves developing an understanding of different viewpoints and perspectives ... the well of knowledge is bottomless, so don't stress !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCJZtJVTWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUIUpFHgVx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fp3eHE-keQ&t=149s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xemo2ZpduHA&t=20s

... to be continued ... as & when ...