5 de Maio

"The phoenix hope, can wing her

way through the desert skies,

and still defying fortune's spite;

revive from ashes and rise"

Miguel de Cervantes

John the Baptist in the Desert, 1504-05

Hieronymus Bosch

Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid

21 de Fevereiro

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune,

and idleness, its opposite, never led

to good intention's goal"

Miguel de Cervantes

The Battle of Carnival and Lent, 1559

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna