Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt. It depicts a scene from William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". The top left and right portions of the frame include excerpts from act V, scene IV of the play. From left to right, the characters are Julia, disguised as a page, Sylvia, Valentine, and Proteus, who is in love with Julia. Sylvia's father, the Duke of Milain, and a group of followers are present in the background. The painting was on display at the Royal Academy in 1851, then
Amoeba proteus amoeboid protozoa various names: Carl Linnaeus termed Rösel's organism "Chaos protheus" in 1758. Otto Friedrich Müller referred to it as "Proteus diffluens" in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name "Amoeba proteus" to describe Rösel's "Proteus", "Proteus diffluens", and another described amoeba "Amoeba princeps". Amoeba proteus Amoeba proteus (core of Amoeba), alternatively Chaos diffluens, is an amoeba closely related to the giant amoebae and a species commonly bought at science supply stores. This small protozoan uses tentacular protuberances called pseudopodia to move and phagocytose smaller unicellular organisms,(which may be greater in size than of amoeba), which are enveloped