crows and ravens and jackdaws and magpies in art

andrea kowch




























peter de seve

bruegel the elder

william heath robinson

c. f. tunnicliffe

arthur rackham

audubon

rudi hurzlmeier

david inshaw

alexander calder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/calder-sears-bankruptcy-1441741

titian ... the offerings to venus, c.1518 ... compare and contrast ... rubens, 1636 etc

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-worship-to-venus/42b30ed4-0e79-4f2b-aa62-091a27f895b3



rubens' copy of the titian  ...

rubens' re-invention of the titian ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feast_of_Venus_(Rubens)





the preliminary sketch that fra bartolomeo had made of the subject, his commission and the sketch being passed on to titian after his death

footnote ... fra bartolomeo, a lovely painter, largely ignored since his achievements were overshadowed by the giants of the italian renaissance ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolomeo

full translation of philostratus of lemnos here ...

https://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusElder1A.html#6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostratus_of_Lemnos

deep in the dungeons of the bibliotheque nationale de france ...

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525006749/f1.item.r=edmond%20malassis.zoom?fbclid=IwAR0QvrZG_j3dwf24UEZd5Izfjdr02tAtIPfWRyZZp0FY_hyr_fdHJlMvpI4

playfully serious and seriously painterly ... the amazing margaret bowland ... who was caught in the unseemly scramble for the moral high ground by a bunch of people with knee-jerk intellects, sandpaper tongues and cloth ears

https://indyweek.com/topics/margaret-bowland/



http://camraleigh.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MargaretBowland-GalleryGuide.pdf

mary emma jones by frederick sandys

i am dazed and confused because the picture above was NOT by frederick sandys but by his sister emma !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sandys

https://historiarumblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/frederick-sandys-his-sitters-and-his-works-in-relation-to-the-pre-raphaelites-in-depth/

reference material on sandys career as a magazine illustrator ...

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/sandys/cooke.html

mermaids