Download or read book Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World written by Christine Elisabeth Jackson and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some artists painted large canvases filled with birds for an imaginary earthly paradise, while others made detailed studies of a single species. Many great masters painted a bird, and the specialist bird painters knew not only how to paint feathers, but also understood the birds' anatomical structure. These artists were given commissions to record newly-discovered species.
Download or read book Dictionary of Bird Painters written by Antique Collectors' Club and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of British Bird Painters written by Frank Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Bird and Wildlife Painters written by Harry Van Rompaey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Bird and Wildlife Painters written by Harry Van Rompaey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dictionary of Bird and Wildlife Painters written by Harry van Rompaey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Birds written by Bo Beolens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating dictionary, an ebook to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
Download or read book Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names written by James A. Jobling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Download or read book A General Dictionary Of Painters written by Matthew Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters written by Frederick Peter Seguier and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Painters written by Matthew Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Dictionary of Painters written by Matthew Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Birds written by Alfred Newton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Bird Paintings of the World The eighteenth century written by Christine Elisabeth Jackson and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of a five-part series Christine Jackson illustrates works by major artists of the period, including Pieter Casteels, Marmaduke Cradock, Willem Frederick van Royen, Tobias Stranover, Jakob Bogdani and Abraham Bisschop. She not only discusses the artists and their frequent use of symbolism in the paintings, but also gives us many fascinating glimpses into bird behaviour. The combination of the author's scholarly research and ornithological knowledge has cast new light on this subject and the result is a book which will appeal to everyone interested in art and ornithology.
Download or read book The Art of the Bird written by Roger J. Lederer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.
Download or read book Painters and Their Works written by Ralph N. James and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
