Friday, May 29, 2009
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
DISTILLATION- p 261-266
DISTRIBUTION- p 267-290 animals thru time. fossil shit. oy.
DIVINATION- term used to mean the obtaining of knowledge of secrets or future things by revelation from oracles or omens. some pencil marks.
DIVING- deep diving. contraptions illus. diving bell. suit. 294-300
DIVORCE- P 300-305
DOBSON, WILLIAM- 1610-1646. english portait + historical painter. b. london. father master of the alienation office, but had imprudently reduced the family's for time. w apprenticed to stationer + picture dealer + while there, copied pictures of titian + vandyck, who influenced his work. also did live portraits under francis alizn(?), german artist. vandyck happened to pass the shop w/ had one of Ds pictures in the window + v searched him out + presented him to charles I, + ch I retained him. replaced V with D when V died. after ch I's fall, D reduced to poverty + fell into bad habits. (ah, this may be why i had a hard time finding his stuff. destroyed?)
