#buffon

[francepittoresque]

IL Y A 238 ANS | Mort du naturaliste et philosophe Buffon ➽ http://bit.ly/Georges-Louis-Buffon Le 16 avril 1788, cette figure majeure de l’histoire naturelle rend son dernier souffle. Naturaliste d’envergure, observateur d’une grande précision, il fut un théoricien parfois contesté. Intendant du Jardin royal des Plantes, il y consolida et ordonna les collections tout en poursuivant une œuvre de classification et de description du vivant ayant durablement structuré l’imaginaire savant et la culture scientifique française

[aichi-n-crew]

You absolute buffoon, you have left me no choice. I have destroyed god. I've now reached enlightenment idiot, so now you can't avoid me any longer. You must procure my Bambi 2 at all costs or all of time and space will be lost to you.

[kyuud3n]

🃏🐇Buffon't

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[jorgeburgos8]

Although this Pokémon has a heart of ice, it doesn't hesitate to share joy and fun with any traveler it meets along the way.

[welele]

No sé si será el único, quizá CR también ha estado en todas.

También vemos el salto generacional. De PS4 a PS5 hay tanto que hasta el de PS4 parece mejor.

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of a Buffon

Artist: Juan van der Hamen y Leon (Spanish, 1596-1631)

Date: circa 1626

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

A sumptuously dressed and armed dwarf holds a ruler´s staff, an attribute of power that cannot have corresponded to his status. He was probably one of the court buffoons, who were showered with presents and dressed in ostentatious luxury. Since the sixteenth century, portraits of these figures were quite customary, although it was Velázquez who explored this genre with singular mastery. The date generally attributed to this extraordinary portrait indicates that the model might be Bartolillo, a dwarf whose presence in the Palace is documented between 1621 and 1626. Juan van der Hamen was best known for his excellent still lifes, although he also made religious paintings and portraits of high quality, like the present one. Notable here, besides the marked detail and tenebrist lighting, is the expressive strength of the protagonist, who is portrayed with enormous dignity and an expression that is practically defiant.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) Le Vautour (The #Vulture) plate from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle) 1936, published 1942, ed. of 226 Aquatint and sugar lift etching with drypoint on copper in black on off-white laid paper Image: 31.5 × 20.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 37.2 × 28.3 cm (14 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.) The Art Institute of Chicago 1946.439.14

[soulchild-ai3]