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...manakin is a native of Surinam.
Johanna moved with her husband to Surinam in 1711 where she died sometime after 1723.
Three Mice Nibbling Fruit
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Grape Vine w/Gaudy Sphinx Moth 1702-03, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Merian wrote of the grapes which grew wild in Surinam: ‘It is regrettable that one can find nobody interested in cultivating them; it would not be necessary to bring wine to Surinam; ...
The Battle of Anghiari
Fresco, Leonardo da Vinci, 1505
Copy by Peter Paul Rubens
The Battle of Anghiari (1505) is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, known as "The Lost Leonardo", believed hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the...
🎨🦟🐜🦗🌿Schizodactylus monstrosus, a large cricket found in Asia. "The Naturalist's Miscellany" by George Shaw (1789-1813), V.18.
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🎨🍃🎋💐🎨 It is not surprising that the muguet symbolizes the return of happiness, blooming at the beginning of the sweetest month. The gracious bells and sweet smell attract the nightingale out of his nest to drive him to his mate.
Lillies of the Valley, Albert Durer Lucas
🎨🍃🎋💐🎨Butterfly Violet, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940. Butterfly Violet (Viola papilionacea), 1923, watercolor on paper. In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, ...
This influence is clear in the Disney version of Pinocchio, with Monstro the Whale.
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🐋📖🎨From Carlo Collodi's "Le Avventure di Pinocchio", 1942, Beppe Porcheddu, 1898-1947.
Porcheddu's masterpiece is the illustration of Collodi's "Pinocchio" ( 1942 ).
He used only three colors, brick red, sugar blue and white white, adding black for definition.
🐦🌳🌲🎨Turkestan Sparrow, from The Birds of Asia, by John Gould 1804-1881. Considered the father of bird study, Gould's identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.