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Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Picture Set Of The Month - Romanesque Sea Beasts

One of over a hundred painted panels
on the ceiling of a Romanesque church at Zillich

But the panels that I have selected here
are merely the sequence of sea beasts. 

In the time these beasts were painted
the earth was thought to be flat.

The land was thought to be surrounded 
by mysterious and unexplored oceans.
 

Protected by these beasts whose shape and size
could only be guessed. Some of us would be happy
for the world to return to a state something like that. 

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