van Leyden's Pyramus and Thisbe

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Sydney has stopped at the engraving Pyramus and Thisbe by Lucas van Leyden for today’s episode. The artwork shows two young people, one dying or dead and the other one about to be so. Before you click away, if you have the mental space for hearing about fictional suicide Sydney would be grateful.
Listen as Sydney describes the scene, tells a story that features a lioness and love gone wrong, and fate.
Show Notes
The sources used for the information on van Leyden are
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/leyden-lucas-van#:~:text=Lucas%E2%80%99%20surviving%20paintings%20are%20relatively%20few%20in%20number%2C,the%20Blind%20Man%20of%20Jericho%20%28Hermitage%2C%20St.%20Petersburg%29
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucas-van-Leyden
Smith, Elise Lawton (1992) The Paintings of Lucas Van Leyden: A New Appraisal, with Catalogue Raisonné University of Missouri Press ISBN 978-0-8262-0824-8
"Lucas van Leyden | Dutch artist" Encyclopedia Britannica
Friedländer, Max (1924). Lucas van Leyden.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1484.html#works
Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting (trans., 5 vols., 1967-1969).
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/leyden-lucas-van
The source used for the information on Pyramus and Thisbe is
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pyramus

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Music:

Intro and outro music- soda pop
Transitional music between segments- Atlantis
Underlying music for speaking- Mountain Breeze
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History: 00:51
Story: 5:00
Description of art: 6:32
Thoughts: 12:50
Challenge: 16:49

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