Sometimes this blog will just be pictures of Saint Jerome and his Tiny Lion.

 Because much of Friday was spent finally knuckling down to updating the blog. 

And because cats really furnish a study.

 

 from the workshop Jan Van Eyk, 1442

 

Stefan Lochner, 1435-ish

 

 

Colantio, 1445-5

 

 

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1525

Albrecht Dürer, 1514 

 

Vincenzo Catena, 1510-ish

 

 

Henry V. Steinweck, 1630, (according to pinterest)

Atonella de Messina, 1475-ish
 

 (Most of these lions actually are sitting more like dogs; the king of the animals completely tamed. The Victorian sculptor Edwin Landseer had a dog called "Lion", which it's possible he used as a model of the back two-thirds of the lions at the base of Nelson's Column after the one he'd obtained from London Zoo got too smelly - the danger there of working to a dead lion! That's another Time Tour joke.)

 

"Lion" by Edward Landseer.