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#Caturday 🐱:

Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan 1847-1915)

Cats, c.1879-81

Color woodblock print, Oban size “From a set of at least 9 oban prints published by Matsuki c. 1879 – 81. These prints mimic imported lithographs and etchings and are exceptionally rare.”

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the frog and the serpent

illustration from a german translation of the fables of bidpai, swabia, c. 1480

source: Chantilly, Bibliothèque et archives du château, Ms. 680 (olim 1389), fol. 218r

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christ bearing the cross

full-page miniature from the spinola hours, flanders, c. 1510-20

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 8v

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Egon Schiele

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Close up of the Virgin Mary

Panel from the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck 1426-1419

I haven't posted in a while. A lot of changes have been happening in my life, but I'm finally starting to settle down again. This panel in particular stuck out to me in my Northern Renaissance class. :)

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For #Caturday :

Kitten Appliqué Quilt

Possibly Kentucky, USA, 1941-50

Cotton, including muslin feed sacks, with cotton embroidery; 83 × 67"

American Folk Art Museum 1987.8.1

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Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal 🦭

Sea Lion Pup Vessel

Moche culture, Peru, 200–850 CE

Ceramic & slip, 19.7 x 15.5 x 16 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

The Cleveland Museum of Art 2014.375

“Sea lions commonly appear in Moche art as effigy vessels, like this appealing pup, or in complex scenes that often show them as the targets of human hunters. They may have been prized in part for the beach pebbles found in their stomachs; modern Peruvian folk healers consider such pebbles to have powerful medicinal qualities. Also, colonial-period natives believed that sea lions carried the dead to off-shore islands, an idea that could date to Moche times.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

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Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

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Ohara Koson,1930′s

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Anatomy of a horse, from a 1400s CE Egyptian manuscript.

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William James Webbe - The White Owl: "Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits" (1856)

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The Nightmare

John Henry Fuseli, 1781

The inspiration of Hammer’s work

The Nightmare

Emil Eduard Hammer

Munich, Germany

Life-sized wax woman and monkey (inspired my Fuseli’s painting of the same name)

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The Nightmare

Emil Eduard Hammer

Munich, Germany

Life-sized wax woman and monkey (inspired my Fuseli’s painting of the same name)

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For #Caturday:

Cat Jug, c. 1670 - 1710 Lead-glazed earthenware, H 14.2 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge C.234-1928

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stabbing a pregnant woman

illustration from a manuscript copy of laurent de premierfait's french translation of giovanni boccaccio's "de casibus virorum illustrium", france, 15th c.

source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174, fol. 3r

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Selected pages from the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300.

The canticles live in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and are fully digitized. :)

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st. odile of alsace

in an illuminated prayer book, bavaria, c. 1480

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 7251, fol. 187r