Sarah Blickさんのイラストまとめ

I've read a lot about magnificence and how it was expected of the nobility. Fine houses, dress, food, etc. not only distinguished their role in society, it provided employment for others. Their charity was expected to be just as extravagant.

Nicolas Nemiri, Cat Falling in Snow/Cat Falling 4 Poses Woodblock, France
Very silly

Early #Caterday
Dreamy kitties in many ways. Ikenaga Yasunari (b. 1965) Japan.
https://t.co/u1wY22577F

#MedievalManuscripts St Jerome seeming to pet his lion,Bible Zikmunda z Domažlic Stephanus LangtonVIII.A.8, 1r
Národní knihovna České republiky; Praha; Česko; Source: Image repository of the National Library of the Czech Republic
https://t.co/KMmVBpuT8w

#Caterday Well not cats, but tigers...
(L) Tiger on Rocky Outcropping, ink on paper, hanging scroll, 20th century, Japan (artist?)
(R) Haruki Nanko (1759-1839), Tiger, ink on paper hanging scroll, Edo Period, Japan

#Caterday Tomoo Inagaki (1902-1980) 稲垣知雄,
Four Cats, woodblock.

I don't know why, but the strange Mannerist prints of Jacques Bellange (1575-1616) have always intrigued me. The pudgy balloon bodies with the attenuated limbs (fingers esp), the naked yet clothed w lots of drapery, and the shimmering light makes for a strange world.

@antiquariananon Nice watercolor from when the pigment was a bit fresher (or the artist more inventive?)
https://t.co/GBjzqWJx4l
Again, thank you for sharing such great pictures!

Rinpa School, Japan. The Ogata Korin goes further & implies the bridge, poetically recreating w irises folding in & out on the screens. This link translates the original poem and lays out the "Iris" structure. 3/4
https://t.co/DtHElwUlSl

Works by the Rinpa School, Japan were purchased by wealthy merchants, eager to prove their cultural knowledge. Here Ogata Korin references a poem from the Tales of Ise based on an 8-plank bridge over irises, a man missing his wife, uses syllables of "iris" to create the poem.2/4