Four #cicada brooches, Eastern Germanic, c. 380-500 CE
silver, copper alloy, iron
Morgan Library display
“#Cicadas symbolized immortality in the ancient world, perhaps because of their seemingly miraculous regeneration after long periods of dormancy. Cicada brooches were worn by women living along the Danube and on the northern shores of the Black Sea. The Goths converted to Christianity in the period after AD 350, and these brooches may have had connotations of spiritual renewal and rebirth.”
#Arachnid appreciation post:
Marble cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jamdat Nasr Period, c. 3500-2900 BCE:
(7) Three #Spiders
(8) #Scorpion with a Plant
on display at The Morgan Library & Museum NYC
Happy to be otw to NYC to see both these exhibitions at The Morgan Library & Museum !
“Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio” + “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/current
@art_history_animalia That's not a bee. The front legs, thin hind legs, short wings and face look like a cicada nymph. (It's a good carving of a cicada though, all the details are accurate)
#Baturday :
Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869–1942)
Chauves-souris et pavots, tenture (#Bats and poppies, hanging)
From Plate 33 of L'animal dans la Décoration, 1897 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chauves_souris_et_pavots_tenture_papillons_et_campanules_papier_peint_-_L%27animal_dans_la_decoration_(1897)_by_M._P._Verneuil_(New_York_Public_Library,_enhanced_by_Rawpixel)_506%27790171_o.jpg #ArtNouveau