Art History Animalia

Zoologist turned zooiconologist! AKA Deniz (she/they), Art History PhD student @ UDel. https://linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia Current projects: parrots, opossums, coatis, animal alphabets…

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Intaglio: Two cicadas fighting as gladiators

Roman Republic, 1st c. BCE

Carnelian, 17 x 21 x 3.5 mm

“Rare subject referable to the late republican repertoire of insects that perform human actions.”

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For #WorldGoatDay 🐐:

Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, Kasamatsu Shirō: Japan, 1898-1991) Sleeping Goats — Nemuru koyagi, 1958 Color woodblock print, 42.3x28.2cm

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Otis Dozier (USA, 1904-1987) Goat in the Garden, 1948 Oil on Masonite; Framed 39 3/16 × 35 1/4 × 1 3/16 in. (99.54 × 89.54 × 3.02 cm) Dallas Museum of Art 1990.11

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For #ManuscriptMonday:

Illustration of the goat Heiðrún from Icelandic Manuscript SÁM 66, 1765-6, housed at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

"Heiðrún or Heidrun is a nanny goat in Norse Mythology, that consumes the foliage of the tree Læraðr and produces mead from her udders for the einherjar. She is described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda."

Heiðrún - Wikipedia

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For #WorldOrangutanDay 🦧:

Fritz Rudolf Hug (Swiss, 1921-1989)

Orang-Utan mit Baby, n.d. Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm

Orang-Utan-Baby, 1971 Color lithograph, 49 x 33 cm

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Happy #WorldOrangutanDay! 🦧

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) "Orangutan" From the Endangered Species series, 1983 (signed & numbered edtion of 150) Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 38x38 in [Artwork & image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. - educational use]

Warhol selected the orangutan as one of 10 animals for his 1983 Endangered Species series. At the time, there was only one living species recognized. There are now 3 recognized in the genus Pongo, all of which are unfortunately critically endangered: the Bornean Orangutan (P. pygmaeus, w/3 subspecies), the Sumatran Orangutan (P. abelii), and the Tapanuli Orangutan (P tapanuliensis).

Orangutan - Wikipedia

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For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece:

Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977)

Black Cat on Pink, 1952

Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

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#Caturday 🐱:

Carl Kahler (Austrian, 1856-1906)

Three Black Cats, n.d.

Oil on canvas, 60 ¼ x 44 ¼ in (153 x 112.4 cm)

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#Caturday 🐈‍⬛:

“A Black Cat Holiday”

From: The Black Cat Book. Rhymes by W. Copeland. Cats by Charles Robinson.

London : Blackie & Son, 1905.

British Library A80111-39

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For #InternationalCatDay 😻

Richard H. Recchia (American, 1885 – 1983) Persian Cat, 1931 Bronze, black patina, lost wax cast 49.53 x 26.03 x 30.48 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1984.746

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#TwoForTuesday:

Lizard ear ornaments

Moche: Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru, 1-800 CE

Gold, conch shell, turquoise

H 78 x L 84 x W 78 mm; 53 g

“This is a pair of ear ornaments representing lizards. Lizards were considered animals that connect the beach and the dry forests.

Ear ornaments have been one of the most significant ornaments to distinguish elite personages in the Andes.“

Museo Larco ML100784,85

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Resharing for a belated #WorldLizardDay 🦎

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Lin Onus (Australia, 1948-1996)

Ngakaydjil (Lizards), c.1993

gouache on illustration board

49.0 x 37.0 cm

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For #WorldLizardDay 🦎:

Meyle & Meyer Art Nouveau Lizard Brooches, Germany, c.1900 Silver & enamel, W 9.30 x L 2.40 cm

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For #WorldLizardDay 🦎:

Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869 – 1942) “Lézard" Plate 25 in L’animal dans la décoration (Paris, 1897) NYPL collection

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For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:

Beehive with Blackberry Branches (Cheese Stand)

Minton & Co., design registered 1862

glazed earthenware (majolica)

(Photographed at the Majolica Mania exhibition the Walters Art Museum in 2022.)

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For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

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Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝

#DYK only 8 of the world’s ~20,000 species of bees are honeybees (Apis genus)?

Victoria Fuller (American, b. 1953) Spelling Bee, 2014 craft fur, epoxy clay, acrylic, resin, mylar, chloroplast from the Project: Nature exhbition at Susquehanna Art Museum

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