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[scottobear]

homey-home.

got a lovely wooden table and three chairs today. Rearranging the apartment took about an hour of fiddling. I think I have a layout that's to my liking, now.

factoid o' de day

I found a painting by Hieronymus Bosch that features trepanation.

The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness), c. 1480

"Removing "stones" from the head was a fairly common medieval operation; however, Bosch has painted a flower as the object being removed. The flower is a tulip which, in the Netherlands is a metaphor for being mad. It is common for someone in a mad (crazy) state to be called a "tulip head."

Comments

thats odd........

[spiderstomper.livejournal.com]

the term tulip head.......at the time this painting was done.......tulips were one of the most valueable things on earth.....one single tulip bulb would suffice in place of an entire dowery of land, household items, jewelry,farm animals or anything else....

i painted tulips for a few years and it was just fitting that i learned a bit about them......

nonetheless an interesting painting