Word: pommel
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...until just a few decades ago, a truly humane education included gymnastics. (Don't worry, those of you with pictures of balance beams and pommel horses dancing through your mind: gymnastics was broadly understood as physical training...
...favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with the open mouth of his page. But the most enduring product of the relation between Titian and Giorgione was the pastoral...