{"id":979,"date":"2011-07-22T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T01:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=979"},"modified":"2011-07-22T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T01:25:42","slug":"lion-in-the-artists-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"lion in the artist&#8217;s den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/lion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-980\" title=\"lion\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/lion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/lion.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/lion-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/lion-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Day two hundred and three: <\/strong>My sketch today is based on an artwork that was based on an artwork. Confused? Abraham Blootling made four engraved prints of lions around 1665 for a series titled <em>Variae Leonum Icones<\/em>. Each sheet pictures two lions originally designed by Peter Paul Rubens. I&#8217;ve found six of them so far &#8212; including the one I sketched here &#8212; in Ruben&#8217;s painting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/fcgi-bin\/timage_f?object=50298&amp;image=11145&amp;c=gg45\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daniel in the Lion&#8217;s Den<\/em><\/a> on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. If you click the link to find the lion&#8217;s face, you&#8217;ll notice that Blooteling&#8217;s engraving reverses the image, an effect inherent in the printing process unless the artist purposefully flips the design on the copper plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and three: My sketch today is based on an artwork that was based on an artwork. Confused? Abraham Blootling made four engraved prints of lions around 1665 for a series titled Variae Leonum Icones. Each sheet pictures two lions originally designed by Peter Paul Rubens. I&#8217;ve found six of them so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[69,12,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}