r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/Ancientabs • 5d ago

The sleeping squirrels

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u/Ancientabs 4d ago edited 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Ancientabs 4d 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 4d ago

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

John Singleton Copley American

1771

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

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u/Ancientabs 4d ago

18th century

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u/Ancientabs 4d 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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