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There is a lot going on in Peter Paul Reubens’ The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt, painted circa 1615. The painting was commissioned by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, of The House of Wittelsbach, for Schleißheim Palace.
Looted during the Napoleonic wars, the massive 98 in × 126 in work was returned to Munich, where The Wittelsbach collection formed the nucleus of the Alte Pinakothek, one of the world’s oldest art galleries.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.
