Staff at the National Museum of Natural History helped us identify the animals and insects in our collection.
Yellow-headed Amazon parrot at Cougar Mountain Zoological Park.
Barbara, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry.
Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking while clutching a dove—a creature sacred to Venus.
Widener, Elkins Park, after purchased 1925 by funds of the Estate; gift 1942 to NGA
Eight cows quietly chew their cud on the bank of a river while on the dike above two herdsmen talk to a passing rider, their distant forms accented by shafts of late afternoon light breaking through the billowing clouds. To the seventeenth-century Dutch, the well-fed cow symbolized the nation’s prosperity.
Anne, 4th marchioness of Ely [1856-1917, née Caroline Anne Caithness], Eversley Park
Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian’s Later Paintings (University Park
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
had included Crouching Woman, Thought, Latin Thought, and Statue for a Peaceful Park
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
University Park, PA, 1988: 219; 233, fig. 9-16; 234, fig. 9-17, UV-photo; 235, fig
stands before a flowering rosebush at what appears to be the edge of a garden or park
Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th marquess of Londonderry [b. 1937], Wynyard Park
a favorite local outdoor place: an athletic field at the school, a neighborhood park
