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De soie et de plume, les oiseaux de paradis dans la décoration murale impériale

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles
A study of imperial wall decoration reveals the recurring presence of the exotic-bird motif. Presented in the exhibition Soieries impériales pour Versailles: collection du Mobilier national, the wall hangings in the Empress’s Versailles study and in the ...
Noémie Wansart
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Birds of Paradise

, 2023
Introduction The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. The family has 45 species in 17 genera. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of the species, the majority of ...
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Red Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana), Papua New Guinea, 1917 [picture] /

, 1917
Watercolour signed by artist.; Ellis Rowan Papuan Collection 275/236.; Condition: Good.; Also called: "Count Raggi's bird of paradise".; "The common bird-of-paradise of southern and southeast Papua New Guinea.
Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922.
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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Roy Bird to Uncle Ernest, December 12, 1920

, 2018
This postcard, postmarked from Swannanoa December 20, 1932, was written by Roy Bird (1916-2009) to Mr. W. E. Bird in Cullowhee and shows a decorated Christmas tree in a living room and is part of the William E. Bird Collection.
Bird, Roy, 1916-2009;
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The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Birds-of-Paradise and their Plumage [PDF]

Emu, 1919
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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DKH01-015_kanggam - Kaŋgam ‘Bird of paradise’

This string figure is sometimes called kaŋgam ‘Lesser Bird of Paradise’ (Paradisaea minor) and sometimes kaŋganam, most likely ‘Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise’ (Seleucidis melanoleuca) whose female is called oloŋ. They are the most common bird-of-paradise

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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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