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noelcollection:

It’s Feathursday! This fire-backed sunbird comes from the Western Africa volume of The Naturalist’s Library published in 1843.

Images from: Sir William Jardine’s The Naturalist’s Library. Edinburgh : W. H. Lizars … ; London : S. Highley … ; Dublin : W. Curry, Jun. and Co., 1843.

Call Number: QL3 .J37 1843 Vol. 23

Catalog record: https://bit.ly/2D2vlwI

surrealismart:

Concentric Rinds 1953

M.C. Escher

artist-davinci:

Head of a girl, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: metalpoint,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/head-of-a-girl

artist-delacroix:

Tiger, Eugene Delacroix

Medium: pencil,watercolor

https://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-delacroix/tiger-1830

(via artist-goya)

artist-holbein:

The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger

Medium: oil,panel

https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-holbein-the-younger/the-ambassadors-1533

(via artist-davinci)

artist-angelico:

Madonna of Mercy with Kneeling Friars, Fra Angelico

Medium: parchment,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/madonna-of-mercy-with-kneeling-friars

(via artist-davinci)

thefugitivesaint:

J. M. Rogier, ‘William Gladstone as Dr. Faust making a pact with the Devil’, Dec. 12, 1885

Source

(via centuriespast)

artist-michelangelo:

Study for a risen Christ, Michelangelo Buonarroti

Medium: chalk,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/michelangelo/study-for-a-risen-christ-1533

artist-goya:

Colossus, Francisco Goya

https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/colossus

artist-davinci:

Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by the Biceps, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: ink,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/studies-of-the-arm-showing-the-movements-made-by-the-biceps