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The Paradise Paradox

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Connections linking probability theories to improbable variables turn out to be the way of the world, from the slaughter of sheep on islands in the North Atlantic, to the animal’s reincarnation in the van Eyck brothers’ Ghent Altarpiece, to another favorite son of Ghent, Leo Baekeland, whose research into terpenes and synthetic resins would contribute to the proliferation of plastic pollution throughout the world, but also help the very conservators working to restore the van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece.

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  • Ghent Altarpiece
  • Jan van Eyck
  • Faroes
  • St. Kilda
  • Bakelite

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    From the Cassell & Company, Limited edition, Edited, With Notes And A Life Of Milton by Robert Vaughan, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1890, p. 329.

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    Exodus 12.1-4.

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    John 1:29 – See Preacher’s Institute, “About the Paschal Lamb,” by Fr. John A. Peck, May 7, 2013, https://preachersinstitute.com/2013/05/07/about-the-paschal-lamb/. Accessed March 1, 2019.

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    See WebMuseum, Paris, “Gothic Innovation in the North,” https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/, © 19 Sep 2002, Nicolas Pioch.

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    See “Ghent Altarpiece: latest phase of restoration unmasks the humanized face of the Lamb of God,” by Hannah McGivern, 18th December 2019, The Art Newspaper, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/facelift-for-the-mystic-lamb, Accessed January 24, 2020. See also, “Unsettled by the Dead Animals in Your Paint? Welcome to the World of Vegan Art Supplies,” by Dylan Kerr, August 8, 2017, Art World, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vegan-art-supplies-1039508#:~:text=(Ox%20gall%2C%20the%20dried%20extract,of%20things%20to%20forget%20about. See also, “The Bad Vegetarian Artist: Animal Products In Watercolour Supplies,” by Lee Angold, November 24, 2017, https://leeangold.com/2017/11/24/the-bad-vegetarian-artist-animal-products-in-watercolour-supplies/; and, “Kaia Natural Watercolor – Animal derived ingredients in paint and art supplies,” September 14, 2019. Taken collectively, animal deaths involved in the overall painter’s arsenal may include: Cochenille lice, animal bones, cuttlefish, chicken eggs, Murex snails, human remains (at least during the Renaissance), cow livers, ox gall, animal glycerin, animal fats, animal collagen, rabbit skin glue, mink, camel and sable hairs. See https://www.naturalwatercolor.com/en_GB/a-57397538/blog/animal-derived-ingredients-in-paint-and-art-supplies/#description, Accessed July 8, 2020.

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Tobias, M.C., Morrison, J.G. (2021). The Paradise Paradox. In: On the Nature of Ecological Paradox. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_12

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