Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Longhi's Clara



  1. Interesting, Nige and, judging by it's reasonable accuracy, Longhi must have seen the animal. Unlike Albrecht Durer, who made his rhinoceros woodcut from a description and a fag packet sketch, the poor beast seems to have the feet of a dodo and a smile on it's face. Durer, surprisingly, considering his output, couldn't really do horses either, the apocalypse foursome have strange bendy legs.

  2. Yes, odd that - even great artists can have weak points, e.g. Turner and the human figure...
    I was going to add one more nugget of information - the lady in the back row has not been blacked out by a printing fault. She's wearing a kind of Venetian mask known as the Moretta or Servetta Muta. This was held in place by the wearer biting on a button or bit, meaning she couldn't speak while wearing it. Not surprisingly it fell out of fashion soon after the Rhino was painted.


    شركة نقل عفش بجدة
    شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة
    شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض
    شركة نقل عفش بالدمام
    شركة نقل عفش بالطائف
    شركة نقل عفش بمكة
    شركة نقل عفش بينبع