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#BookRecommendation for #NationalPeacockDay 🦚:
Strut: The #Peacock and Beauty in Art
https://amzn.to/3KcNqLj
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Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art: Hudson River Museum, Bland, Bartholomew F., Vookles, Laura L.: 9780943651453: Amazon.com: Books

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Art History Animalia 2d ago

Today is both #NationalPeacockDay & #WorldStorkDay …
Adriaen Collaert (Flemish, c.1560-1618)
Twee vogels in een landschap: Pavo (pauw) en Ciconia (ooievaar) [#Peacock & #Stork ], 1598-1602
engraving, w 187mm × h 128mm
Rijksmuseum RP-P-1892-A-17421
#BirdsInArt

Art History Animalia 2d ago

For #NationalPeacockDay 🦚 on #WatercolorWednesday :
#Peacock and Peacock #Butterfly, 1917, by Scottish wildlife artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).
H 87.5 cm (34.4 in) x W 111.5 cm (43.8 in)
🆔 Species are the Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) and European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archibald_Thorburn,_Peacock_and_Peacock_Butterfly,_At_87.5_x_111.5cm._Bonhams..jpg
#BirdsInArt

Art History Animalia 2d ago

For #NationalPeacockDay 🦚:
Petro Kholodnyi (Петро Холодний, Ukrainian, 1876-1930)
A Tale of a Girl and a #Peacock, 1916
Tempera on wood, H85 x W 114 cm
National Art Museum of Ukraine via Google Arts & Culture
#BirdsInArt
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/a-tale-of-a-girl-and-a-peacock-petro-kholodnyi/fgG8CLRHYCdquA

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Art History Animalia Mar 26, 2025

#NationalPeacockDay 🦚:
Mahamayuri on #peacock
China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and period (1426-35)
Gilt copper alloy
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Now on display at “Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900” @ The Met
#BirdsInArt

Art History Animalia Mar 26, 2025

For #NationalPeacockDay 🦚:
Sewing Box in the Form of a #Peacock
German (probably Berlin), c. 1830
Mahogany, coniferous wood (pine?), oak; birch, boxwood, ebonized wood; inlay of sycamore, green stained holly, mahogany; bone, silver-gilt, blued steel, brass
On display at The Met (2023.25a, b)
#BirdsInArt