Aaron challenged me to find 1000 works of art, each better than that scene in Ferris Bueller where Cameron looks at the Seurat painting. So here they are, one by one, till what's done is done. © Jon Azose 2010-2012
Saturday, July 13, 2013
931. The French Republican Calendar
This one is super hard to classify. During the French Revolution, the revolutionaries introduced a new calendar to get rid of the old royalist and ecumenical influences inherent in the standard calendar. The result is a sequence of twelve thirty-day months, with each day associated with an animal, a tool, a plant, or a mineral. July 13th would roughly be the guinea fowl (pictured).
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