{"id":11353,"date":"2012-05-05T02:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2012-05-05T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T03:01:17","slug":"swords-against-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/05\/swords-against-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Swords against death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bibliodyssey\/2708281255\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/huell.jpg\" alt=\"huell.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Mr BibliOdyssey posted a link on Twitter to a blog entry of his from 2008, a collection of prints by Dutch artist <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk\/2008\/07\/collectie-ver-huell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Ver Huell<\/a> (1822\u20131897). If I&#8217;d seen his post originally I didn&#8217;t recall it so this swordfight gives me an opportunity to draw attention to Ver Huell&#8217;s macabre and diabolical work. This unwinnable duel brings to mind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ebob1AYJiqk#t=7m20s\" target=\"_blank\">battle with the band of skeletons<\/a> from Ray Harryhausen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057197\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jason and the Argonauts<\/em><\/a> (1963), one of my favourite things in the whole world when I was 10. Given how many of the pictures in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-men-with-swords-archive\/\">Men with swords archive<\/a> have a quasi-classical theme it&#8217;s perhaps appropriate to list Jason and co. among them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ruc-cEp4sE0\/ToXqip1L7UI\/AAAAAAAAF1s\/2TnHJREutTU\/s1600\/jason-and-the-argonauts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jason.jpg\" alt=\"jason.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Mr BibliOdyssey posted a link on Twitter to a blog entry of his from 2008, a collection of prints by Dutch artist Alexander Ver Huell (1822\u20131897). If I&#8217;d seen his post originally I didn&#8217;t recall it so this swordfight gives me an opportunity to draw attention to Ver Huell&#8217;s macabre and diabolical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/05\/swords-against-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swords against death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,2,21,7,48],"tags":[3662,1042,262,63],"class_list":["post-11353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-fantasy","category-film","category-illustrators","tag-alexander-ver-huell","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-ray-harryhausen","tag-swords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2X7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}