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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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2022-06-09

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

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2022-05-06

...work creating an archive of preparatory drawings for the lithographs before her death was not adequately recognized.

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2022-04-05

...an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.

The Titan's Goblet (1833), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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2022-03-04

🖌🎨🐛🦋🌺Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717)
Parrot Tulip, Auriculas, and Red Currants, with a Magpie Moth, its Caterpillar and Pupa

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2022-02-25

🎨⏳📖🖌 Giorgio Vasari, Allegory of Patience. 1552.
Vasari has painted a monumental depiction of the personification of Patience clutching her naked upper torso to ward off the cold while watching the slow erosion of a stone underfoot due to the dripping ...

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2022-02-02

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, A Girl at a Window, after 1799, Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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2022-01-28

🎨📖🍁🍂 Tiles from nonsense-genius Lewis Carroll's fireplace, very much in his spirit, commissioned from artist William de Morgan.

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2021-09-29

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

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2021-05-14

🎨📜⏳🏰Martin Schongauer 1448 1491, Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer. Schongauer is the first German painter to be a significant engraver, with a family background in goldsmithing.

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2021-05-12

🎨🍃 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.

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2021-05-06

Grandville's ability for political provocation made his work much in demand.
Scenes from the private/public life of animals, 1840-42.

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2021-04-23

🎨⏳📖👐 Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli, c. 1480 (Rijksmuseum) What wonderful hands.

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2021-04-20