Noticing xlvii - rainbows

This afternoon, after a full day of rainy gloominess, the light irrupted in splendor! Of course, everyone loves a rainbow—and all the better if it's a double one. We were treated to a beautiful bright bit of one on our afternoon walk (please ignore the dog):

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours;
let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
—Khalil Gibran

That got me to wondering about rainbows in mythology (which I decided not to pursue here) and about rainbows in art—which is what you get today. Enjoy! (As always, click on the images to see them large on black.)

Illustration of a rainbow in a 13th-century Persian manuscript
by Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazwini

Folio 2 (Genesis), Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch
(Augsburg Book of Miracles) (1550)

Adriaen van de Venne, De Zielenvisserij (Fishing for Souls) (1614)

Et apprehendit Draconem, page 34 of the alchemical treatise
Thesaurus Thesaurorum et Secretum (1725)

Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, "Untersuchung
des Regenbogen," Physica Sacra (1731)

William Blake, "A Pindaric Ode," in
Illustrations for Thomas Gray's Poems (1797)

Meteorology: A Double Rainbow over the Fields
in the Country, an engraving by Royce (1805)

John Constable, Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836)

Frederic Edwin Church, Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866)

Alexey Savrasov, Landscape with Rainbow (1881)

Georges Seurat, The Rainbow (study for Bathers at Asnières) (1883)

Frederick McCubbin, Rainbow over Burnley (1910)

Wassily Kandinsky, Cossacks (1910/11)

Moriz Jung, Hindernis Regenbogen (Rainbow Obstacle) (1911)

Paul Klee, With the Rainbow (1917)

Marc Chagall, Noah and the Rainbow (1966)