#17th Century Art

[arthistoryanimalia]

#PenguinAwarenessDay 🐧:

Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on 17th c. Dutch maps of Strait of Magellan:

1602 Olivier Van Noort (I think this is the earliest depiction of one on a map?)

1635 Jodocus Hondius

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Ewer and Tray.

Date: 4th quarter of the 16th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (around 1585 - 1615)

Place of origin: Gujarat, India

Medium: Mother-of-pearl, shell.

[frostedmagnolias]

Portrait of a Lady in allegorical guise, holding a dish of pearls (detail)

Pierre Mignard (French, 1612-1695)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749), "Landscape with Shepherds" (details). São Paulo Museum of Art.

[dogzcats]

pomegranates in still life (details)

[weirdlookindog]

Pedro de Camprobín (1605–1674) - Death and the Gentleman, 1670 [detail]

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: A Young Woman Holding a Distaff Before a Lit Candle Artist: Adam de Coster (Flemish, ca. 1586-1643) Date: unknown Genre: portraiture Period: Baroque Movement: Antwerp Caravaggisti; Tenebrism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 134 cm (52.7 in) high x 94.9 cm (37.3 in) wide Location: private collection

[oncanvas]

Saint Casilda, Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1630-35

Oil on canvas 171 x 107 cm (67.32 x 42.13 in.) Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

[interventionlullabies]

Jan Asselijn, The Threatened Swan, c. 1650

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldCrocDay + #ManuscriptMonday :

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) having its teeth cleaned by the "Crocodile Bird" (Trochilus), from a 1615 copy of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The Book of Animals) by al-Jāḥiẓ (c. 776–868/869 CE). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D140inf.

[random-brushstrokes]

Charles Mellin (attr.) - Portrait of a Gentleman (ca. 1630)

[sjbattleangel]

Trixie the cat from the portrait of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. 1603. Attributed to John de Critz. Source

@catsofyore

[love-for-carnation]

Tile. The pattern consists of a vase in the centre decorated with arabesque ornament and containing sprays of carnations, tulips and irises. Turkey, about 1600

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Toilette of Venus by Benedetto Gennari II (1674-84)

[weirdlookindog]

Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) - Scenes of Witchcraft: Night, c. 1649 [detail]

[viidsch]

The Penitent Magdalene (1640) by Georges de La Tour