Un génie familier, démon familier ou tout simplement familier est, dans bon nombre de croyances d'Europe occidentale, une entité, animal ou esprit, parfois imaginaire et invisible, à laquelle les hommes s'adressent pour demander des conseils ou obtenir des services, en particulier liés à la sorcellerie.Les familiers peuvent servir leurs propriétaires comme domestiques, ouvriers ...

Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, …

オランダ黄金時代の絵画（オランダおうごんじだいのかいが）は、オランダが世界的な影響力を持っていた時期、すなわちネーデルラント諸州の独立戦争である八十年戦争（1568年から1648年）の終わりから17世紀（オランダ黄金時代） を中心として、オランダ人画家たち、あるいはオラ …

An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, …

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl /, also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl /; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] (); c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of ...

Piers Plowman (written c. 1370–86; possibly c. 1377) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for "step").Like the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman is considered …

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.. The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led European trade, science, and art. The northern Netherlandish provinces that …

Etymology. The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. It may derive from the German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle (literally "nightcap"). It is the origin of the early eighteenth-century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of".The modern meaning emerged as a term for a politician who was doing …

El sexo anal es una práctica sexual que consiste en la introducción del pene (o de un juguete sexual en el caso de la masturbación anal) en el ano o el recto de la pareja. Otros términos sinónimos son «sodomía», «coito anal» y «pedicación». Además de en los seres humanos, se conoce la existencia de esta práctica entre primates y otros mamíferos.

Dans ces spectacles appelés « drolleries », reviennent régulièrement des personnages typiques caricaturés, tels que Simpleton le forgeron, John Swabber le marin, Clause le mendiant, Bottom le tisserand, issu du Songe d'une nuit d'été, ainsi que Falstaff, accompagné parfois d'une hôtesse, mais sans l'obésité extravagante qu'il affiche dans les pièces de Shakespeare [62], [63].