Art History Animalia

photo of the fireman’s coat (design: brown hawk flying over blue wave) hanging on display at museum

photo of the gallery label: “Unidentified Artists) Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with Hawk and Waves early to mid-20th century Japan Cotton, plant dyes This handmade firefighter's coat, made of layers of cotton stitched securely together, is displayed inside-out to reveal a hawk soaring above turbulent waves. Worn during a fire with its undecorated exterior facing out, the coat was saturated with water to protect the firefighter from flames and debris. Rather than using water to put out fires, late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese firefighters demolished structures near a fire to prevent it from spreading. After extinguishing a fire, the heroic men turned their coats to display the decorated insides. The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision. Anonymous Gift, BMA 2024.374”

#TextileTuesday:
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at BMA (2024.374)
“The firefighter who chose this design…valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

photo of the pottery piece on display at museum double chambered & single spouted (upside down Y shape) vessel; left half as a light brown strombus shell with spout half red-brown and right half as a dark brown spondylus shell with spout half light brown; molded and incised details

photo of the gallery label: “Unidentified Moche Artist Double Chambered Bottle Representing a Spondylus Shell and Strombus Shell lst-7th century North coast, Peru Earthenware, slip Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation, Upper Nyack, New York, BMA 2005.31”

#TwoForTuesday :
Double Chambered Bottle
Representing a Spondylus #Shell and Strombus Shell
Moche culture, North coast Peru, 1st-7th c.
Earthenware, slip
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (2005.31)
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #Mollusks

vintage hand-colored zoological plate in landscape orientation, illustration of 8 different sea urchin specimens

Echinus, Pl. 136 in Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature, T.2 (Paris, 1797). Hand-colored plate.
#SeaUrchins #Echinoderms #Invertebrates #SciArt
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Illustration of a black tusked boar with Chinese text above “signed HUANG YONGYU, dated jia xu, 1994, the twelfth lunar month, inscribed, with a dedication to Shen Weichuang, and five seals of the artist”

#MonochromeMonday :
Huang Yongyu 黄永玉 (Tujia; China, 1924-2023)
Black Swine, 1994
Ink on paper, hanging scroll
#ChineseArt
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full view of the fresco panel with the artist’s self-portrait inserted into scene https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stories_of_Saint_Benedict_in_Monte_Oliveto_Maggiore_by_Sodoma

Detail of the artist’s self portrait with his two pet badgers at his feet (one in front wearing a red collar)

closeup of the two badgers, one in front in side profile with red collar and with a bird biting the tip of its tail, one behind looking up at its owner

#NationalBadgerDay:
#ItalianRenaissance artist Il Sodoma (b. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, 1477-1549) stuck a self portrait with his pet #badgers into his Stories of St. Benedict fresco cycle! 😂
Scene 3: Benedict Repairs a Broken Colander Through Prayer (Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany, 1505-8)

painting in portrait orientation, illustration of a standing American Badger, brown / orange color palette, modern Woodlands School style

For #NationalBadgerDay :
Lloyd Kakepetum (Keewaywin First Nation, b.1958)
#Badger, 1979
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
#FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #WoodlandsArt

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Resharing for #NationalBadgerDay

Resharing for #NationalBadgerDay

fol. 43r digitized page from an illuminated manuscript, text box surrounded by illustrations of various mammals (15 total) against gold background

fol. 208r digitized page from an illuminated manuscript, text box surrounded by illustrations of various birds (19 total) with 4 flies and 2 butterflies scattered in between against gold background

For #ManuscriptMonday:
#Mammals & #birds (plus some bonus #insects), fols. 43r & 208r from Horae (Cambrai) [Heures de Boussu], France, 1490-95
Gallican BnF / Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal Ms-1185 réserve
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official photo of the Antelope Clip, front view in pale green background bejeweled clip in the form of a recumbent antelope

digitized image of the original design for the Antelope Clip, color drawing centered on off-white paper

1. #Antelope Clip, 1972
Yellow gold, platinum, sapphire, enamel, diamonds
Van Cleef & Arpels Collection
2. Drawing of Antelope Clip, c.1972
Van Cleef & Arpels Archives
On display at “An Ode to Nature by Van Cleef & Arpels" show, Galerie du Patrimoine, Paris
www.vancleefarpels.com/en/the-maiso...

Every Year This Wisconsin Museum Hosts the Best Modern Bird Art in the World The annual “Birds in Art” show at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the biggest, most impressive exhibition yet. Take a behind-the-scenes tour...

“Every Year This Wisconsin Museum Hosts the Best Modern Bird Art in the World”
The annual “Birds in Art” show at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the biggest, most impressive exhibition yet:
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Drawing depicting six pairs of red snails and green leaves arranged in two rows of three, with an orange butterfly and the words "so slow" at the top

#Snails for a slow Sunday 🐌…
Andy Warhol (USA, 1928-1987)
So Slow, 1950s
Watercolor & ink drawing on paper
The Warhol Museum
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(© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)

book plate in portrait orientation, illustration of a colony of Bryozoans with grey vase-shaped bodies and yellow tentacle crowns against black background, with caption: “ANIMAL MOSS (Flustra cormata)”

Plate IX Animal Moss (Flustra cormata)
from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (The World of the Sea), 1866 (English ed. 1869)
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47911#p...
[Yes, they’re animals! Phylum Bryozoa]

official museum photo of the object, front view on white background red brooch in the form of a poodle, with plastic body and coral pieces used for the fur

Brooch, USA, early 1940s
Designed by Marion Weeber Welsh (USA, 1905–2000)
Plastic, #coral, thread, metal; 8h x 6.5w x 2.2d cm (3 1/8 x 2 9/16 x 7/8 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 2006-2-8
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1869...
#Poodle #DogsInArt #WomenArtists

Medieval manuscript illustration of two turtledoves standing on some branches facing one other.

fǣle, adj: faithful, true, dear, good. (FAE-luh / ˈfæː-lə)
Image: The turtledove always remains faithful to its mate; Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 32r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a grey cat curiously gazing down its nose, giving it a cross-eyed appearance.

a-sēon, str.v: to look at or upon, set eyes on (something). (ah-SAY-on / a-ˈseːɔn)
Image: Peterborough Bestiary; England (Peterborough), c. 1300-1310; @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social MS 53, f. 197v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Montage showing nature printed butterflies in a 1920s notebook: a Peacock, Red admiral and Small tortoiseshell.

Interesting to find some nature printed butterflies @theul.bsky.social yesterday (‘lepidochromes’). The butterflies were pressed on prepared paper, which was folded, allowing the scales to transfer to create mirror images of both sides of the insects’ wings. 1/2 #enthist @camglamresearch.bsky.social

White & black swans amongst the reeds & rushes of the lake.

"Swans on Lake Annecy" - 1890

Designer - Albert Besnard
Master glassmaker - Henri Carot

From the vestibule of the mansion of Henry Lerolle (painter), 20 avenue Duquesne, Paris.

Now @museeorsay.bsky.social #Paris

#StainedGlassSunday

painting depicting a pair of tabby / calico cats, one in back orange standing in side profile and one in front grey looking towards the other, both with white undersides, with tips of curled tails entwined, on grey background

#Caturday 🐱:
Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917-2017)
Encounter, 1967
Oil on canvas, 23 1/2" x 19 1/2"
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#CatsInArt #WomenArtists

official auction photo, front view on white background Vase, cameo glass translucent browns and yellows, with a trio of flying bats in dark brown silhouette

For the first #Baturday of #BatAppreciationMonth 🦇:
Cameo Glass #Bat Vase by Daum Frères, France, c.1910
H 9¾ in. (24.8 cm)
www.christies.com/lot/a-daum-f...
#ArtNouveau

A charcoal drawing of three cats sleeping together in one big ball of cats.

The Cats: Tsching, Batzar and Blanc-Blanc.
Drawing by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923). National Gallery of Art. #Caturday #SciArt #Art

The netsuke is a toggle. Japanese men used netsuke to suspend various pouches and containers from their sashes by a silk cord. Netsuke had to be small and not too heavy, yet bulky enough to do the job. They needed to be compact with no sharp protruding edges, yet also strong and hard-wearing. Above all, they had to have the means for attaching a cord. Netsuke were made in a variety of forms, the most widely appreciated being the <i>katabori</i> (shape carving), a three-dimensional carving, such as this one in the form of a cat dozing on an oval disc, with its tail curled over the back part of its body. Cats were introduced into Japan in the late 9th century, and quickly became a favorite part of their culture, right into the modern era with pop culture phenomena like Hello Kitty and cat cafés. Japan, ca. 1800-1850, carved and stained ivory. V&A Museum (A.65-1915)

On this lovely weekend day, with my spine having given out (off to emergency care, I think - bleh), I want to be like this netsuke cat from Japan, without a care in the world. So here he is for #caturday.

ca. 1800-1850. #V&A
📸 me

What a week!

Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.89r @camdiglib.bsky.social

photo of both scrolls hanging together on display

photo of the 100 animals hanging scroll on display

photo of the 100 birds hanging scroll on display

gallery sign: “181 SUZUKI KITSU 1796 - 1858 One Hundred Birds and One Hundred Animals Edo period, 1843 pair of hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold pigment on silk Catherine and Thomas H. Edson Collection Native birds and animals appear alongside an elephant, a camel, and other exotic species. A mythical phoenix perches on the mountain in the scroll at right, while a kirin flies through clouds in the one at left. A sacred animal with the horns of a dragon and the legs of a deer, the kirin is said to materialize when saints or benevolent rulers appear. With real and fantastic creatures coexisting in harmony amid blossoming plants from all four seasons, these scrolls suggest a Buddhist paradise.”

Happy #WorldAnimalDay!
Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858)
One Hundred Birds and One Hundred Animals
Japan, Edo period, 1843
pair of hanging scrolls; ink, color, & gold pigment on silk
From “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art” exhibition at National Gallery of Art DC (2019)
#JapaneseArt #AnimalsInArt

official museum photo of the sarong laid flat open on light grey background

closeup of the animal design

Happy #WorldAnimalDay! How many different animals can you spot in this fabric menagerie?
Sarong (Kain Lepas), mid-late 19th c.
Javanese (Indonesia, Java, Pekalongan)
Cotton, paint
44 x 84 in. (111.76 x 213.36 cm)
The Met 30.88.2:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#SEAsianArt #AnimalsInArt

Animal: Exploring the Zoological World: Editors, Phaidon, Hanken, James, Aloi, Giovanni: 9780714876818: Amazon.com: Books Buy Animal: Exploring the Zoological World on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

#BookRecommendation for #WorldAnimalDay :
Animal: Exploring the Zoological World (2018)
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The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art: Sleigh, Charlotte: 9780226447124: Amazon.com: Books Buy The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

#BookRecommendation for #WorldAnimalDay:
The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of #Animals in Art (2017)
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More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas's 'Wild World' Map Taking three years from start to finish, Anton Thomas’s meticulously detailed map takes us on a zoological journey around the globe. “I’ve imagined ‘Wild World’ since childhood,” he says. “I remember ...

For #WorldAnimalDay :
More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild World’ Map
www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/anto... via @thisiscolossal.com

What is your favourite animal? 🐶🐮🦁🐱

Our collection is full of animals in the most unexpected forms. These objects show just how much humans have always been inspired by our furry, feathered, and armoured friends.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

linocut printed in two colors, blue striped tabby cat with green eyes loafed on a tray with checked pattern surrounded by houseplants, all printed in green signed and numbered '12/85' in pencil to the margin

#Caturday 🐱:
Richard Bawden (UK, 1936-2024)
Blue #Cat, n.d.
Linocut, 38.5 x 43cm
www.lskauctioncentre.co.uk/auction/lot/...
#CatsInArt