Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

Martin Schongauer’s studies of peonies are among the earliest surviving northern European botanical studies drawn from life (1473). He makes use of them in his ‘Madonna of the Rose Garden’ in the Dominican Church in Colmar, France

Here’s Wilhelm Kettler, 17th century Duke of Courland in Latvia. Clearly, he is descended from Obelix. Equally clearly, his successor will have very big pants to fill (Joachim Zivert, 1615)

Take a moment to discover the multiple visual paradoxes in the Magritte-inspired Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves’ The Phenomenon of Floating ~ is that the sky or is it the Earth? At lower right, is it the dark of the trees or the starry night?

Eager actresses accompany scandal-prone Lord Byron as he sails from England, waving ‘bye to shadowy wife Annabella & one-month child on shore (Cruikshank, 1816). Who’d guess that this child (Ada Lovelace) would later be a pioneer in computer programming?
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Adam Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt (1609), painted just a few months before his premature death, was the first naturalistic depiction of the night sky in Renaissance art, & influenced Rembrandt’s own Flight into Egypt (at R), done 30 years later

Birds and animals ~ including, oddly, a pig and deer with satyr faces ~ make their escape from exploding trees in forest fire depicted by Florence artist Piero de Cosimo in 1505 https://t.co/TUQ9owWqUj

19/20C biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel, coiner of the term “ecology”, created these vivid depictions of sea anemones, jellyfish and hummingbirds (1904, from his book ‘Art Forms in Nature’)

Multi-talented May Morris, daughter of the more-famous William, specialised in decorative needlework (Autumn & Winter at L; Spring & Summer, top R), designed jewellery & wallpaper (Honeysuckle, far R) and wrote, edited, & helped run family business https://t.co/VWHbBpK9S6

Self-taught Joris Hoefnagel was a leading 16C Flemish illuminator and pioneer of still lifes. Here’s some of his many superb nature studies ~ tulip, ichneumon fly, kidney & runner beans ■ pomegranate, worm, peach ■ dragonfly, carnation, pear, carnation
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The famous “third foot” of man carrying tray in Bruegel the Elder’s Peasant Wedding Feast is often treated as joke or error, which later copyists tried to “correct” (top R). But it’s just the extended left foot of the man who’s twisting to pass the bowls
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