Spring Gallery

Spring - Summer Wind by Herta Zuckermann

Girl with her arms filled with Spring flowers - painting by child artist Herta Zuckermann, student at the Vienna School for Arts and Crafts (Professor Cizek's course). Frantz Cizek was an artist teacher and reformer of art education-he opened his Juvenile Art Class in Vienna in 1897 and encouraged his students aged 5-14 years old to express themselves freely in an unencumbered atmosphere -some of the results are outstanding this being one of the works by pupil 14 year old Herta Zuckermann of a young girl gathering spring flowers Date: 1920

Catalan Atlas, 14th century

Catalan Atlas, 14th century. The 6-page Catalan Atlas (1375) was produced on vellum by the Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques. It was commissioned by the rulers of the Kingdom of Aragon (north-eastern Spain). Two pages are on cosmography, and four on geography. This page shows the five known planets (plus the Moon and Sun) orbiting the Earth, the zodiac, moon phases, calendars, and the four seasons. The text is in Catalan. This version is a facsimile (exact reproduction) produced in 1959 by the Spanish scholars Joan Vernet and David Romano. The facsimile pages have been illuminated by hand in colour and gold leaf

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RES-1063-C Brown Hares - two boxing

RES-1063-C
Brown Hares - two boxing
Oxfordshire, UK, February 2010
Lepus capensis
George Reszeter
Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

© George Reszeter/ardea.com

Action, Aggression, Aggressive, Behaviour, Boxing, Confrontation, Courtship, Dominance, Europe, European, Field, Fields, Fighting, Hare, Hares, In Field, M Ammals, Mammal, Movement, Seasons, Spring, United Kingdom, Wild Life