The Complete Language of Birds

The Complete Language of Birds
Author: Randi Minetor
Publisher: Wellfleet
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 157715374X

The Complete Language of Birds offers stunningly illustrated profiles of nearly 400 bird species, covering both their physical and mystical qualities.

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings
Author:
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501766724

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Birds & Nature Magazine

Birds & Nature Magazine
Author: Charles C. Marble
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1902
Genre: Birds
ISBN:

Vol. 6 includes "40 Three-Color Half tone illustrations from photographs of stuffed birds, minerals and some landscapes. Chicago Colortype Co., Chic. & New York, identified on some plates."--Page 132.

Birds

Birds
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1897
Genre: Birds
ISBN: