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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9426236, member: 5833"]Your Lamant is as weird as mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434125[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The primary figure on yours appears to be Urania, Muse of Astronomy, or so she's always called, but her usual attributes relate to the study of geometry, literally earth-measuring, hence the globe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434126[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't see Cupid; a billowing cloak is giving the impression of wings. Looks more like a mother bringing her young child for instruction. The winged male figure with a ledger under his arm, attention caught by something off to his left...? Maybe just an allegorical figure for learning/knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both yours & mine seem like scenes Lamant created with his own imagination. I have never otherwise seen either of these tableaux.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9426236, member: 5833"]Your Lamant is as weird as mine: [ATTACH=full]434125[/ATTACH] The primary figure on yours appears to be Urania, Muse of Astronomy, or so she's always called, but her usual attributes relate to the study of geometry, literally earth-measuring, hence the globe. [ATTACH=full]434126[/ATTACH] I don't see Cupid; a billowing cloak is giving the impression of wings. Looks more like a mother bringing her young child for instruction. The winged male figure with a ledger under his arm, attention caught by something off to his left...? Maybe just an allegorical figure for learning/knowledge. Both yours & mine seem like scenes Lamant created with his own imagination. I have never otherwise seen either of these tableaux.[/QUOTE]
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