Fishies

[lollardfish]

This painting is housed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and I just mentioned it in a footnote (about representations of Venice as "Neptune's City." What's cool about it, to me, is that the fish are accurate and consistent with the Adriatic fish one sees in the fishmarket today. I can identify nearly all of them in the picture, and that makes me a) happy b) miss Venice a lot.

Link to painting.

Comments

Re: Totally pithy comment, but-

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It's one of those do it yourself southpark icons. Like this one.

Re: Totally pithy comment, but-

[bodi-kat.livejournal.com]

Kewl. Did a google search and found a site to make 'em on.

Thanks to you, i now have my own little southpark icon (or two!)

Re: Totally pithy comment, but-

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It's a fun game everyone can play.