Salamanders, real and imagined ...

 Salamander - Wikipedia

11 Surprising Facts About Salamanders (treehugger.com)

Japanese Giant Salamanders Are Devoted Dads | WIRED

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Human-Sized Salamander That Smells Like Pepper | WIRED

Giant salamander - Wikipedia

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

The gallant "Salamander" : Barnard, D'Auvergne : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436410?ao=on&ft=Salamander&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=37

... to be continued ...

the story of jesus and the woman who was "taken in adultery" ... and why william blake's illustration might be the right one ...

saint john, chapter 8, verse 9 ...

"And they that heard it, being convicted by their owne conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst."

Blake might possibly be the only artist to show the conscience-stricken mob leaving the temple ... 

The Woman Taken in Adultery: An Essay on Blake’s “Style of Designing” | Christopher Heppner | Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 2 (blakearchive.org)

On Blake’s Painting of Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery | Warren Stevenson | Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly | Volume 19, Issue 4 (blakearchive.org)

mister goro sakamoto ... dealer, collector, donor ... of the finest antiquities

Sakamoto Gorō: The Legacy | Chinese Works of Art | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

The life of Goro Sakamoto part IV (theartnewspaper.com)

Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Goro Song Ceramics - N09189 (sothebys.com)

Sakamoto Goro | British Museum

A generation collector Sakamoto Goro, 92 years old and 80 years of collecting experience, has repeatedly set records of hundreds of millions of Song porcelain - iNEWS (inf.news)

 

Defining Moments: Nicolas Chow | Sotheby's (sothebys.com)

Goro Sakamoto, the giant crocodile in the antique circle, bet all his belongings only to buy a collection, and his collection relies on courage - iNEWS (inf.news)

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/chinese-art-through-the-eye-of-sakamoto-goro-hk0490/lot.120.html

Kehinde Wiley

 

Kehinde Wiley - Wikipedia

Kehinde Wiley Studio | Brooklyn, NY

Kehinde Wiley: the artist exploring Black vulnerability through monumental works | Art | The Guardian

an improbable but felicitous conversation ...

(741) Contemporary Conversations: Artist Kehinde Wiley and The Duke of Devonshire - YouTube

... to be continued ...