28 August 2013

Hummingbird

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Our female Anna's hummingbird in the snow last winter.  She lives in the shrubbery next door and we have never been able to find ...
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21 August 2013

Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Eight

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La vostra sorella Cleofe Palaologhina  deo gratia Vasilisa della Morea # 5, to Paola. 28.6 x 21.5 cm. Brigitte Eckert rece...
14 August 2013

On Vacation: Turkish Tulips

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Needle tulip, ca. 1730. Dwarf's Purple, ca. 1725.   18th C. Anhegger Coll., Istanbul. Tulip by Ali  ...
07 August 2013

On Vacation: The Scribe

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Gouache and pen with ink on paper, 18.2 x 14 cm. 1479-1480? Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
31 July 2013

Negroponte in 1395

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How di Martoni would probably have appeared. Western merchants, fresco detail ca. 1400, Ag. Paraskevi, Halkis/Negroponte A rece...
24 July 2013

The Cats of St. Nicholas

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From the travelogue of Krištof Harant, 1608. Ben Arbel sent me his article, "Cypriot Wildlife in Renaissance Writings,...
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17 July 2013

Endpapers

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Images from ASVe Senato Mar b. 12. The drawings here are from the front and back pages of volume 12 of the Venetian Stato Mar re...
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10 July 2013

Crow Summer

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The weather and the crows have been splendid this summer. Two pairs -- one for the third summer -- have brought their fledglings to ...
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03 July 2013

O Palaiologos

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  Ὁ Παλαιολόγος   + ·· Partial signature of John VIII Palaiologos, 1439 In mid-June I had a letter from Daniel Moss, a London ...
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