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

[creidylad.livejournal.com]

lollardfish. venicefish.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

You should play the dissertation length guessing game (a few posts back)!

Totally pithy comment, but-

[bodi-kat.livejournal.com]

Dude, there's a guy wearing a Santa hat in that picture!!

(and slightly-less pithy) i love the clouds around the Chariot ...

Re: Totally pithy comment, but-

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

What wrong with Santa hats?

Re: Totally pithy comment, but-

[bodi-kat.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all, it just seems so out of place!

Say, is that Stan in your icon?

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.