EXHIBITION:
Fantastic Creatures of the Venetian Lagoon: Glass 1875-1915
On View at Chrysler Museum
February 23, 2024 — August 18, 2024
chrysler.org/exhibition/fan…
“At the turn of the twentieth century, Venetian glassmakers adorned blown glass vessels with fabulous beasts sculpted

Maud Earl (British-American, 1863–1943)
Ch. Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen, 1935
oil on board
breed: #Poodle
on display at AKC Museum of the Dog
#WomenArtists #DogsInArt

Gustav Muss-Arnolt (German-American, 1858-1927)
Wan Lung, c. 1920
oil on canvas
Breed: #ChowChow
on display at AKC Museum of the Dog
#DogsInArt

So this is what #pugs looked like in the late 18th / early 19th century…
Richard Ramsay Reinagle (English, 1775-1862)
Pug, n.d.
oil on canvas
AKC Museum of the Dog collection
#DogsInArt

Amazing news for #MonotremeMonday :
Australian scientists identify ‘Age of Monotremes’
australian.museum/about/organisa… via Australian Museum

Hey Dr Pat Witts look what I found! 🦔👀
Seven #hedgehog appliqués
Iran, c. 5th century BC
Gold, 5/16 × 1 × 1/2 inches (0.8 × 2.5 × 1.3 cm) each
Johnson Museum of Art 2014.024.007 a-g: museum.cornell.edu/collections/se…

Jan Tschichold, Redrawings of the Penguin logos, 1947. Scanned from Pioneers of German Graphic Design, Callisto Publishers GmbH, 2017. Find more inspiration at designreviewed.com #jantschichold #penguinbooks #penguinbookcovers

#MosaicMonday

The Villa of the Birds mosaic is something to behold. There are 33 individual birds represented, each with their own frame. Just stunning!

📸 Frédéric Lecut

A nasty frog in the throat......🐸🐸🐸

BnF Latin 8878; Beatus a Liebana , Commentarius in Apocalypsin; f.184v Gallica BnF

A Limier Briquet Hound wikiart.org/en/rosa-bonheu…

This little castor ware beaker features two hounds chasing a rabbit. It's made by covering a thin white base of pottery with a black slip.

This example (left) is from St Albans Museums and is similar to one found at Trimontium (right), now in the care of National Museums Scotland

As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s 17th-century painting of his name in caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best. More on the unique work here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/ja…

For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday :
Richard de Fournival
Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of Love), in Old French
N. Italy, c.1290
The Morgan MS M.459, fols. 7v-8r

A DANGEROUS MELODY
The Bestiary of Love is a plea from a lover to his unsympathetic lady. The text refashions

Saw this piece on display at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts!
Vase, 1898
Hard-paste porcelain, enamel, bronze, gilding
“AN ART NOUVEAU COLLABORATION
The vase in this case is an exceptional example of the collaboration between numerous artists during the late 19th century. The ceramic was made by

Flemish artists of the 16th and 17th centuries embraced the challenge of drawing animals from life. This is a particularly energetic example by Joannes Fijt, one of Antwerp’s most talented animal painters, currently on display in Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings.

Dogs

These little cast bronze amulets are over two thousand years old. They come from Lumajang in Indonesia, and date back to around 200 BCE. They were likely used to protect their possessors against danger, evil and disease.

The water buffalo is on display in Gallery 32 on Level 1.