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Read about Bird and Wildlife Art created by the greatest naturalists from the gold age of exploration.
The 17th through 19th centuries were a time of rapid scientific and artistic progress. It was a time of discovery. New species were documented by the great naturalists of the time such as Mark Catesby, John Gould, and Daniel Giraud Elliot. Each of whom devoted their lives to expanding our knowledge of birds and animals and to appreciating their beauty.
Learn more in our featured articles such as The Interconnection between Rationality and Nonsense in Edward Lear’s Artwork, the The Mystery of the Extinct Great Auk, and Was Alexander Wilson’s Art Precursive of the Modern Field Guide?.
Though the idea of ornamenting oneself with a bird carcass may be a bit deterring [...]
The Introduction of Birds-of-Paradise to the Western Imagination [...]
Exposing the unsavory tendencies of the Common Cuckoo and Great Grey Shrike in Gould’s Birds [...]
A beautiful selection of original watercolor paintings by renowned artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes has recently [...]
When browsing the contents of John Gould’s compendious Birds of Europe, the majority of the [...]
An examination of the stylistic qualities of Wilson’s art in relation to modern standards of [...]
An investigation of the thematic confluences between Surrealist art and Catesby’s prints [...]
The confluence of creative mechanisms behind Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon’s depictions of the [...]
An Exploration of the Historical and Artistic Remanence of the Only Flightless Bird of the [...]
An exploration of the creative confluences and stylistic continuities between the artwork of Selby and [...]
Sensorial engagement and the challenging of object-viewer relations in Audubon's prints [...]
Picturing Oddity and Abundance in British Colonial America. [...]
The twofold nature of Audubon’s prints as both artistic and scientific is exemplified in his [...]
A consideration of the creative techniques and viewer-object relations in Fuertes's watercolors [...]
An overview of the structural blueprint underlying Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology [...]
A consideration of the relationship between Lear's scientific illustrations and Nonsense-verse caricatures. [...]