The Old French word bertolais translates as "Bertilak" in the Arthurian tale Merlin from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle of Arthurian legend.
The drama that Ms. Kumar requested, however, is from a cycle of indigenous Javanese legends about a mythical king named Panji, from the pre-Muslim era.
Ulster cycle, Irish Ulaid Cycle, in ancient Irish literature, a group of legends and tales dealing with the heroic age of the Ulaids, a people of northeast Ireland from whom the modern name Ulster derives.
After 15 years of arduous, costly and high-tech restoration, the scaffolding has come down in the Church of San Francesco, providing a dramatic new look at one of the art world's splendors, the fresco cycle "Legend of the True Cross" by the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, called simply Piero by his many fans hereabouts.
From this point on, under Gothic influence, Sassetta's style assumes an increasingly decorative character, manifest initially in a polyptych in San Domenico at Cortona (probably 1437) and reaching its climax in a cycle of scenes from the legend of St. Anthony the Abbot.
The fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross (1452 66) and the diptych portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, and his consort (1465) are among his best-known works.
The narrative cycle The Legend of the True Cross was completed by 1466.
So, hunter of legends I am not, but I like the sense of completing the cycle that hunting brings, there's intimacy to it.
Varnish is the stuff of legends.
