Ogata Korin
Sinovenator changii was a little troodontid theropod from the Early Cretaceous of China. This very owly painting of it is totally not copied from this 1856 painting by William James Webbe.
Did you need some nightmare fuel tonight? I hope you did.
Nightmare fuel… or adorable duck owl dinosaur? Results are out.
It’s swans that are the scary ones, but cranes will do.
Gosh wow every single post on this person’s blog is amazing wow I’m in artlove
I FREAKING KNOW, RIGHT??
Turkey cock by Mansur, Mughal India, c. 1612.
“The painting of a North American turkey cock done for the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) records its arrival at the court in 1612. Jahangir had asked his friend Muqarrab Khan to procure rarities of any kind at the port of Cambay, on the western coast, and in 1612 a consignment of exotic birds and animals caused a sensation. Jahangir wrote: ‘as these animals appeared to me to be very strange, I both described them and ordered that painters should draw them in the Jahangir-nama [“Book of Jahangir”, the emperor’s memoirs, so that the amazement that arose from hearing of them might be increased. One of these animals in body is larger than a peahen and smaller than a peacock. When it is in heat and displays itself, it spreads out its feathers like the peacock and dances about. Its beak and legs are like those of a cock. Its head and neck and the part under the throat are every minute of a different colour. When it is in heat it is quite red - one might say it had adorned itself with red coral - and after a while it becomes white in the same places and looks like cotton. It sometimes looks of a turquoise colour. Like a chameleon it constantly changes colour.’”
An exotic bird, described in comparison to the ordinary peacock.
Painting by the Mughal artist Ustad Mansur from c 1625, which may be one of the most accurate depictions of a live dodo. Two live specimens were brought to India in the 1600s according to Peter Mundy, and the specimen depicted might have been one of these. Other birds depicted are Loriculus galgulus (upper left) Tragopan melanocephalus (upper right), Anser indicus (lower left) Pterocles indicus (lower right).
Hermitage, St. Petersburg. http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf
Text and image - Wikimedia.
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Wow, I absolutely love the technique on this.
oh NO so jauntybaby peacock (asain peafowl) by thomas motyka on Flickr.
It’s a peachick!
OH NO LOOK AT ITS FEET
AVENGE ME HAMLET
FOR I WAS KILLED BY YOUR UNCLE, AND MY BROTHERA MOST FOWL AND UNNATURAL MURDER
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