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Xarifa: the Zegri lady rose not, etc. by Francis John Wyburd, 1863

Wyburd was a painter of genre, literary and historical subjects. His orientalist #art drew some inspiration from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh: an Oriental Romance.

#painting

Fool's Head World Map by unknown artist, after 1570

Based on an earlier map by Jean de Gourmant, this #artwork is a bit of a mystery. It appears to be based on Abraham Ortelius's atlas of the world. Its meaning has been a centuryblong debate. Some believe it is a
#WyrdWednesday

Celtic Landscape by Hendrik Lek
#painting #art

The Stairs by James Jebusa Shannon, 1899

Sir James Jebusa Shannon was an Anglo-American artist.

#art #painting

Dawn by Frank Bernard Dicksee, 1897

Dicksee was a British painter, the best-known member of a family of artists. He specialized in romantic historical scenes (often from his own imagination rather than based on a particular event or literary source).

#art #painting

India: Ajanta – Fragment from the Hamsa Jataka by Christiana Jane Herringham, 1909-11

In 1906, the Herringhams made a trip to India. She travelled to India again in 1911, and copied Buddhist cave #painting at Ajanta near Hyderabad, which had deteriorated.

#WomensArt #art

A Putto Pours a Phial into a Dragon's Mouth, Pumping a Bellows with His Other Hand; Representing the Fixing of Volatile Matter in the Alchemical Process by Salomon Trismosin (after)

#FairyTaleTuesday

Mermaid and Sea by Robert Anning Bell, 1919

This #painting depicts a #mermaid praying for a soul, which is based on the depiction in Hans Christian Anderson’s #fairytale ‘The Little Mermaid’, wherein mermaids do not have a soul and cannot go to heaven.

#mermaidmonday #art

Carretero y capatáz by Claudio Gay, 1854

Hats have acted as indicators of social status. In this #painting a foreman (with horse) wears a hat of greater height than the accompanying inquilino (19th-century Chilean labourer).
#FolkloreSunday

Mermaid by Maurice Greiffenhagen

This #painting was inspired by Goethe's poem about a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death.

#mermaidmonday