Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners

Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood.

For scholars such as Macdonald, among others discussed in this chapter, contemporary culture is a petroculture, where fossil fuels have shaped the character and form of the modern (Buell 2012; LeMenager 2012; Wilson and Pendakis 2012; Barrett and Worden 2014; Szeman and Boyer 2017).

My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.