{"product_id":"the-sun-devourer-framed-winter-solstice-print","title":"The Sun Devourer — Born of the Longest Night Framed Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lion closes its jaws around the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen gathers in the mane like the deep color of a forest at dusk. The sun keeps its human face. Around them, snow lies on the rock and the winter pines stand still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe green lion devouring the sun is one of alchemy’s best-known images. Here we give it a winter setting and our own reading: light passing into the body of the beast, carried beneath the dark surface of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat appears to vanish may be entering another form. For those doing the hidden work: the season within the season, the fire beneath the green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eRosarium philosophorum\u003c\/em\u003e (Rosary of the Philosophers) was printed in Frankfurt in 1550 with twenty woodcuts. It became one of the most-quoted texts of European alchemy. One of its images shows a lion devouring the sun. The green lion swallowing the sun is now counted among the classic emblems of the art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlchemists rarely explained their pictures plainly, and the image has many readings. A common one is that the sun stands for gold, dissolved in a powerful solvent (the green lion) so that its seed can be freed and the work begun again. Rome hailed the midwinter sun as \u003cem\u003eInvictus\u003c\/em\u003e, unconquered. The alchemists imagined a sun that has to be swallowed before it can be renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the one who knows that what seems lost is often only changing form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSizes: 12 × 16 in \/ 16 × 20 in (vertical)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack solid-pine frame, matte finish; clear plexiglass front\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte paper print; no mat. The art sits on a deep black field. About ¼ in at each edge sits beneath the frame lip, and the composition is set back to allow for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives fully assembled and ready to hang, with hangers fitted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted and framed to order in the US or Canada. Ships to US addresses only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtwork by Shawn Neville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade with AI assistance, following human aesthetic, mythic and historical direction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"12\" x 16\" (Vertical) \/ Matte \/ Black Frame","offer_id":67750728532056,"sku":"68233713864045608702","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16\" x 20\" (Vertical) \/ Matte \/ Black Frame","offer_id":67750728564824,"sku":"28761023234555438112","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/5698\/4920\/files\/1715059400218596705_2048.jpg?v=1792254817","url":"https:\/\/oldheavenapparel.com\/products\/the-sun-devourer-framed-winter-solstice-print","provider":"Old Heaven Apparel ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}