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Lesson 1: For kids- Bored angel and twin
- Snake-haired monster
- Blue gangster demon
- Ferocious but cute sea monster
- Pair of chests, attributed to Antonio Maffei
- "A Hare in the Forest," Hans Hoffmann
- "An Allegory of Passion," Hans Holbein the Younger
- "The Adoration of the Magi with Saint Anthony Abbott," Franco-Flemish master
- Sad angels
- Mighty mover angel
- Tongue-tied baby dragon
- St. Michael the archangel, sassy devil and crew
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Tongue-tied baby dragon
Michelle and Michael talk about Bernini's Boy with a Dragon, 1614-20. This is from an imaginative tour at the Getty Center: The Supernatural in Art. Created by Getty Museum.
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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Michelle. What you're looking at
is a statue of Hercules. He is holding a little
dragon and he seems to be defeating the dragon
because he's so strong. Hercules looks like he's smiling. He's not really looking at it and he doesn't really know what it is. Like he's just playing around
with it 'cause he's a baby. - [Voiceover] Hey, you
think I asked for this? I'm a dragon, a monster. - [Voiceover] Hello, my name is Michael. The artist, I think, did
the sculpture the way it is to show the strength of Hercules and that this is just the beginning. He's in a battle with the lion. He had to shoot down three
harpies, I think it was. And then he had to fight two Minotaurs. - [Dragon] So, got my
tongue back for a second. Hercules goes on to fight a
lot of bad, bad creatures. But I'm telling ya', I'm not evil. Hercules' dad, the god
Zeus, his wife got all mad 'cause Hercules isn't her kid, ya' see? And she sent me to kill him. She shoulda sent my older cousin. - [Michael] He's really
squeezing that jaw hard but it looks like he did
it without any effort, sitting on the dragon like
it was a stuffed animal. - [Michelle] The baby
dragon probably doesn't have all it's powers like breathing fire. - [Michael] It's very violent. It's still a great sculpture but it's more on the sad
side to me, than happy. The dragon might've been a good dragon and I just kinda feel sad for it because it had to die, by a baby.