EditorialA White Bird Telling Venus of Cupid's Illness. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x...
EditorialA White Bird Telling Venus of Cupid's Illness. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x...
EditorialCiconia boyciana, Print, The Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana) is a large, white bird with black wing feathers in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is closely related to and resembles the European white stork (C. ciconia), of which it was formerly often ...
EditorialPelecanus conspicillatus, Print, The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagran...
EditorialHalcyon macleayi, Print, The forest kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii), also known as the Macleay's or blue kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Halcyoninae, also known as tree kingfishers. It is a predominantly blue and white bird. ...
EditorialPelecanus conspicillatus, Print, The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagran...
EditorialBlack and White Bird Perched on a Shrub, 1651-1652. Shafi' Abbasi (Iranian). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 16.1 x 25 cm (6 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.); image: 7.7 x 13.4 cm (3 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.).
EditorialA White Bird Telling Venus of Cupid's Illness. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x...
EditorialIllustration of the Fourth Treatise: a white bird with three crowned heads in a glass vessel; borders decorated with flowers; outside the niche, a battle scene and captured cattle. Splendor Solis. Germany, 1582. (Whole folio) Illustration of the Fourth...
EditorialPica, a black and white bird with long tail. Elongated neck and long beak. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. 2nd quarter of the ...
EditorialPlate 16: A white bird tells Psyche of Cupid's illness, as she rides dolphins on the sea accompanied by tritons and nereids, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius.