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🎨⏳🕯 Laurent de La Hyre's 'Allegory of Grammar', grammar is personified as a woman. The essence of this art is explained in the inscription, which may be translated as, 'A meaningful and literate word spoken in a correct manner'.
Laurent de La Hyre 1606-1656.

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2020-10-05

Carle Vernet exhibited this drawing and its pendant, The Return from the Race,at the Salon of 1800, where they received wide acclaim. So popular were the scenes that another artist then produced engravings after them, which were exhibited at the Salon of 1808.

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2020-09-09

🎨🗻🕯🕰 Butterfly Violet, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940, 1923, watercolor on paper.

In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, accompanied by brief descriptions, in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers.

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2020-08-26

Her earliest work from 1625, a calligraphy book, designed with capital letters illuminated with fruits, flowers, birds, and insects. These subjects were to become her specialty, and tempera on vellum was her preferred medium. Garzoni's refined interpretation of plants and ...

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2020-08-17

Circe and the Companions of Ulysses, Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola or Parmigianino, 1527, Uffizi Gallery.

In this episode from the Odyssey, Circe offers Odysseus's men a magic potion that will turn them into beasts, yet leave them helplessly aware of their changed state.

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2020-08-05

The blue and white china bowl is typical of a Dutch still life of this period, while the blue-backed manakin is a native of Surinam.

Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them (more)...

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2020-06-10

it would not be necessary to bring wine to Surinam; rather it would be possible to bring wine from there back to Holland, for the grapes can be harvested more than once a year’.

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2020-06-09

🎨🦟🐜🦗🌿Schizodactylus monstrosus, a large cricket found in Asia. "The Naturalist's Miscellany" by George Shaw (1789-1813), V.18.

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2020-05-22

🎨📖🖌 A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts,1880-81, Jean Béraud, 1849-1935.
He painted many scenes of Parisian daily life during the Belle Époque, and received the Légion d'honneur in 1894. Béraud's paintings often included truth-based humor and mockery of (more)..

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2020-05-19