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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #AfricanPenguinAwarenessDay 🐧

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 13

Today is also #AfricanPenguinAwarenessDay!
🚨 The African #Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is an #EndangeredSpecies.
Plate by Joseph Smit (1836–1929) from “Report on the birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76” (1881).
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sp...

digitized scan of a color book plate in portrait orientation, natural history art / scientific illustration: portrait of a standing African Penguin on the shore with colony in background

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · May 12

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay :
Rie Muñoz (American, 1921-2015)
Migration, c.1977
Seriograph, 22.25" x 27.25"
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Migr...

#WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

color print, illustration of a flock of 15 birds (Canada Geese) in flight on white background, elements of Pacific NW Coast art style

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · May 12

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay:
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978)
Crane migration, before March 1937 oil on jute, 120×100 cm
imkinsky.com/en/auction-r...
🆔 Red-Crowned Crane (Grus japonensis)
#WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

oil painting depicting a closeup of a migrating flock of birds (Red-Crowned Cranes) flying over a seascape village, elements of Japonisme art style

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 13

For autumn #WorldMigratoryBirdDay:
Charley Harper (USA, 1922-2007)
Birds of a Feather [Red-Winged Blackbirds], 1974
Serigraph, 31 x 24 in.
www.charleyharperartstudio.com/birds-of-a-f...
#BirdsInArt

digital image of the serigraph, from an original painting: migrating flock of male red-winged blackbirds with autumn leaves blowing through, in Harper’s signature “minimal realism” style

“Flocking together as summer wanes, a brigade of bachelor red-winged blackbirds swings into the southbound lane, where traffic is backed up to the Arctic Circle. But where are the brownish females? Flocking apart. Red-winged congregations are strictly his or hers, except in spring when they sing, “I’m ok-a-lee, you’re ok-a-lee”, and consort among the cattails long enough to make sure there will always be red-winged blackbirds. Then it’s back to separate dorms—flocking together apart.”
–Charley Harper

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · May 11

Happy #WorldMigratoryBirdDay!
Norman Lewis (American, 1909-79)
Migrating #Birds, 1954
oil on canvas This entry won the Popular Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition in 1955, making Lewis the first African-American artist to receive the award.
www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/norm...

"In 1955, Norman Lewis became the first African-American artist to receive the Carnegie International Award for this celebrated painting. The critic for the New York Herald-Tribune proclaimed Lewis's work "one of the most significant events of the 1955 art year." This work demonstrates Lewis's continued commitment to the natural world, using representation as the starting point for abstraction. Within the golden yellows which cover the canvas completely, Lewis creates a mass of movement and energy with his application of sharp, white strokes of paint which conjures up images of birds in flight. Lewis's sense of duality, the abstract and the representational, are in complete balance in this prized painting. The sensation is that of multitudes of birds taking flight in the blazing sun and sky."
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/lewis-norman/
image credit: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York. © Estate of Norman W. Lewis [educational use]

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

Resharing for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · May 10

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay :
Andre Minaux (France, 1923-1986)
Migration, 1960s
Editions Braun et Cie., Paris (15/200)
Tapestry wallhanging printed on linen
49 x 64 in. (124.5 x 162.6 cm)
www.abell.com/auction-lot/...
#BirdsInArt

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

The battle of Cat and Mouse

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.72r

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

The famous five: cat, mouse, weasel, mole, hedgehog

BL Harley MS 3244; Theological miscellany; 1236-c 1250 CE; England; f.49v

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 17h

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): 🦑
Bakufu Ohno (Japan, 1888-1976)
#Cuttlefish (Mongo-ika), 1940
From Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui hanga-in)
Oban, 40.3 x 28.4 cm
ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/...
#JapaneseArt #CephalopodWeek

vintage Japanese color woodblock print in landscape orientation, illustration of an inking cuttlefish (light brown & light blue body, black ink), with seals and signatures on lower left

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 17h

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): “cool shades” #squid in an ancient Roman sea bed mosaic, 2nd c. BCE. Archaeological Museum of Populonia, Piombino, Italy. 😎
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...
#CephalopodAwarenessDays

Cool squid in an ancient Roman sea bed mosaic - looks like it has sunglasses on its head LOL! (not covering the eyes, which are visible - like if you had your sunglasses resting on top of your head)

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 17h

Resharing for #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!)
#CephalopodAwarenessDays

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Apr 23

#MonochromeMonday :
Billy Missi (Torres Strait Islander, 1970-2012)
#Seahorses & #Squid, 1999
stone lithograph, 32 x 22 cm
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Seah...

square black and white lithograph, illustration of a single squid surrounded by small seahorses

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 1d

😸 Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle: .
Paris: Chez les editeurs MM. Renard, Martinet et cie, rue et Hotel Mignon, 2 (quartier de l'École-de-Médecine) ; et chez Langlois et Leclercq, rue de la Harpe, 81 ; Victor Masson, Place de l'Ecole-de-Médecin1847-1849.

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Illustration from the mid-19th century depicting two platypuses in a natural wetland setting. The larger platypus stands on land with brown fur, a duck-like bill, webbed feet, and a flat tail, while the smaller platypus is partially submerged in water with only its head and upper body visible. Surrounding them are detailed plants, including reeds and water lilies, emphasizing their aquatic habitat. The image combines detailed linework and naturalistic coloring, characteristic of historical zoological engravings.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 18h

Ojime in the form of a spider on a chestnut, Japan, 1871–1900. Sentoku, 1.7 x 1.6 x 1 cm. EA1956.3754 © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 18h

Gold-glass fragment with a lion, set in modern finger-ring, Roman, 201–400 CE. AN2007.15 © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 18h

Tetradrachm coin with a bee, Turkey, silver, HCR5273 © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 18h

Jan van Kessel, the Elder (1626–1679), Flowers and Insects. Oil on copper, 28.7 x 22 cm. WA1940.2.44 © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

@wittspat.bsky.social 🦔👀

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

I love its expression.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Jacob de Gheyn (II), ca. 1575 - ca. 1625 (Rijksmuseum)

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

Title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

Date: ca. 1615–1868

Culture: Japanese

Medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

Credit Line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

It's #NautilusNight!⁣ The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

*immediately adds to shopping list*

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English.

@hanavideen.bsky.social's The Deorhord is now available in #paperback in the United States and Canada! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#English #OldEnglish #Language

Paperback cover of The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary by Hana Videen

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · Aug 28

mere-fisc, m.n: sea-fish. (MEH-ruh-FISH / ˈmɛ-rə-ˌfɪʃ)
Image: Fish depicted in a 13th-century grammar text; @worcestercathedral.bsky.social F99, f. 71v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript illustration of two fish facing away from each other, their bodies mostly vertical but with their tails inclined closer together; a triangle-shaped block of text separates them.

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · Sep 8

wull, f.n: wool. (WULL / ˈwʌl)
Image: Sheep in a bestiary; England, c. 1225-1250; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodley 764, f. 34r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a wooly white sheep standing among some plants with a placid expression on its face.

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 6d

grymettan, wk.v: to roar, bellow; to cry out, howl. (GRUE-met-tahn / ˈgry-mɛt-tan)
Image: Marginal lion in the Rothschild Canticles; Flanders, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404 (always hard to find), f. 115v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a dark grey lion with a long tail and an enormous mouth; it is roaring at a person with their hands over their head looking terrified.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

For #NautilusNight
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
Tiffany Studios (NYC, USA)
#Nautilus Table Lamp, c.1905
nautilus shell, gilt bronze, mother of pearl
H 13⅜ in. (34 cm)
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
#ArtNouveau

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