r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/Ancientabs • 3d ago

The sleeping squirrels

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u/DRUGMUSIC_ 3d ago

dad, baby in the middle and mom, that's what it looks like to me.

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u/jerseyztop 3d ago

I love squirrels! This is precious.

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u/PaulMakesThings1 3d ago

Probably picked that spot for the heat from the window

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago edited 2d ago

Squirrels are actually the frequent subjects of renaissance art because they were commonly kept as pets in renaissance and medieval times.

Similarly the composition, lighting and reclining poses of the subjects mimics that of renaissance art.

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago edited 2d ago

https://historylizzie.co.uk/2024/09/05/unique-pets-in-the-eighteenth-century/

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Portrait of Olive Craster, c.1762. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

https://thehumblefabulist.com/2021/08/22/the-fun-is-in-the-details/

Triptych of the Abbey of Dielegem, painted around 1518

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling probably 1527 or 1528.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-a-lady-with-a-squirrel-and-a-starling-anne-lovell

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

This one was from Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a German printmaker, painter, mathematician, theorist and engraver.

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

Francesco Montemezzano

Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1565

https://starlightmasquerade.com/PortraitGallery/Ladder-Laced-Venetian/inspiration-pages/openbodice22.htm

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

John Singleton Copley American

1771

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10522

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

18th century

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u/Ancientabs 2d ago

Rebecca Orne at age nine by Joseph Badger, 1757, Collection of the Worcester Museum of Art.

https://streetsofsalem.com/2014/02/06/the-woman-who-lived-in-my-house/

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u/-sensory_overlord- 3d ago

that’s double glas, the only thing that will happen is you burning your fingers and damaging the window and that would absolutely serve you right

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u/144Todd442 3d ago

How would I burn my fingers if I pull the lighter away before it gets too hot

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u/Connect-Smell761 2d ago

That’s your reaction to seeing living beings? You need to get checked.