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Franz Marc Blue Horse / Yellow Cow / Fox. 1911. Oil on canvas.

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For #Caturday :

Kitten Appliqué Quilt

Possibly Kentucky, USA, 1941-50

Cotton, including muslin feed sacks, with cotton embroidery; 83 × 67"

American Folk Art Museum 1987.8.1

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Sea Lion Pup Vessel

Moche culture, Peru, 200–850 CE

Ceramic & slip, 19.7 x 15.5 x 16 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

The Cleveland Museum of Art 2014.375

“Sea lions commonly appear in Moche art as effigy vessels, like this appealing pup, or in complex scenes that often show them as the targets of human hunters. They may have been prized in part for the beach pebbles found in their stomachs; modern Peruvian folk healers consider such pebbles to have powerful medicinal qualities. Also, colonial-period natives believed that sea lions carried the dead to off-shore islands, an idea that could date to Moche times.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

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Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

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Ohara Koson,1930′s

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Anatomy of a horse, from a 1400s CE Egyptian manuscript.

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William James Webbe - The White Owl: "Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits" (1856)

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The Nightmare

John Henry Fuseli, 1781

The inspiration of Hammer’s work

The Nightmare

Emil Eduard Hammer

Munich, Germany

Life-sized wax woman and monkey (inspired my Fuseli’s painting of the same name)

#art history #art #history #european art #modern art

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The Nightmare

Emil Eduard Hammer

Munich, Germany

Life-sized wax woman and monkey (inspired my Fuseli’s painting of the same name)

#art history #art #history #european art #animals #modern art #photography #1800s art #1800s #henry fuseli #nightmare #creepy art #occult #photography history

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For #Caturday:

Cat Jug, c. 1670 - 1710 Lead-glazed earthenware, H 14.2 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge C.234-1928

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stabbing a pregnant woman

illustration from a manuscript copy of laurent de premierfait's french translation of giovanni boccaccio's "de casibus virorum illustrium", france, 15th c.

source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174, fol. 3r

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Selected pages from the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300.

The canticles live in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and are fully digitized. :)

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st. odile of alsace

in an illuminated prayer book, bavaria, c. 1480

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 7251, fol. 187r

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The Empyrean Talon Abraxas

Gustave Doré, Rosa Celeste (Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven, The Empyrean) The Divine Comedy, Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri

“Above the Celestial Fire there is an Incorruptible Flame, ever sparkling, Source of Life, Fountain of all Beings, and Principle of all Things. This Flame produces all, and nothing perishes save that which it consumes. It reveals itself by virtue of itself. This Fire cannot be contained in any place; it is without form and without substance, it girdles the Heavens and from it there proceeds a tiny spark which makes the whole fire of the Sun, Moon and Stars. This is what I know of God. Seek not to know more, for this passes thy comprehension howsoever wise thou mayest be. Nevertheless, know that the unjust and wicked man cannot hide himself from God, nor can craft nor excuse disguise aught from His piercing eyes. All is full of God, God is everywhere.”

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The Unicorns

Gustave Moreau

1885, oil on canvas

#art history #art #history #european art #modern art #neoclassicism #neoclassical #unicorn art #unicorns #french art #france #symbolism #symbolism art

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Wild Goats, Horns Interlocked

Detail from “The Ashmole Bestiary”

1511 (Bodleian Library)

#art history #art #history #european art #medieval #medieval art #middle ages #animals #catholic art #illuminated manuscript #illustrated manuscript #early medieval #medieval manuscripts #medieval history #goats

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Memento Mori

Gold pendant,

1500s, France

#art history #art #history #european art #medieval #medieval art #middle ages #memento mori #black plague #dark ages #skeleton