Welcome to corvusfugit.com!
Corvus fugit means "the crow flies."Recent Top Posts
- 2.2 mya: Matsya and the Asura Hayagriva
- 15th Century: The Ideal City
- 1965: The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys
- 11th Century: Map of the World
- 1883: Educate! Agitate! Organize!
- 1899: Rocky Surf
- 1989: Inferno Joe
- 12th Century: The Unknown Language
- 1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird
- 1495: Weighing Souls
Blogroll
Tags
- 1860's
- 1870's
- 1880's
- 1890's
- 1900's
- 1910's
- 1920's
- 1930's
- 1940's
- 1950's
- 1960's
- 1970's
- 2000's
- 2010's
- Africa
- African-Americans
- Animals
- Art
- Belgium
- Birds
- Books
- Children
- Christianity
- Drawing
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Italy
- Labor
- Landscapes
- LGBTQ
- Mammals
- Miniatures
- Netherlands
- New York City
- Painting
- Photography
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Printmaking
- Religion
- Science Fiction
- Sculpture
- Seascapes
- Ships & Sailing
- The Sky
- Trees
- Unions
- USA
- Women
Tag Archives: Painting
2020: Ingathering
Joyce Brienza + Deborah Sukenic: Ingathering (2020); from an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2020's, 21st Century, Art, Deborah Sukenic, Detroit, Joyce Brienza, Mixed Media, Museums, Painting, USA, Women
Leave a comment
1912: Butterflies
Odilon Redon: Evocation of Butterflies (ca. between 1910 and 1912)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Butterflies, France, Insects, Odilon Redon, Painting
Leave a comment
1909: Seascape
Léon Spilliaert: Seascape Seen from Mariakerke (1909)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Belgium, Léon Spilliaert, Painting, Seascapes
Leave a comment
1778: Great Indian Fruit Bat
Indian flying foxes are found throughout India. Like others of their species, they are gregarious and tend to form large social groups. With a wingspan of four to five feet, Indian flying foxes are very conspicuous in their open roosts … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Art, Bats, Bhawani Das, India, Mammals, Painting, Religion
Leave a comment
2016: Big Storm Light
April Gornik: Big Storm Light (2016)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, April Gornik, Art, Landscapes, Painting, The Sky, USA, Women
Leave a comment
2015: Grid
Victor Hugo Zayas: Grid Series 16 (2015)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Art, Cityscapes, Latino/as/x, Los Angeles, Painting, USA, Victor Hugo Zayas
Leave a comment
1390: And the Books Were Opened
Jacobello Alberegno’s polyptych of the Apocalypse was originally part of a much larger set of artworks in the church of the Benedictine convent of San Giovanni Evangelista on the Venetian island of Torcello; it is now on display in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 14th Century, Angels, Art, Books, Christianity, Cryptids, Hell, Italy, Jacobello Alberegno, Painting, Religion
Leave a comment
1889: Artist-in-Residence
The celebrated 19th century French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur was known for wearing men’s pants, shirts, and ties, as well as participating in traditionally masculine activities such as hunting and smoking. She lived with her lifelong partner, Nathalie Micas … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, France, Horses, LGBTQ, Mammals, Nathalie Micas, Native Americans, Painting, Photography, Portraits, Printmaking, Rosa Bonheur, Sheep, USA, Women
Leave a comment
1808: Portrait of a Horse’s Ass
Henry Raeburn: Portrait of George Harley Drummond (ca. 1808–9); “It is curious…that the animal’s hindquarters should be so prominently displayed” says the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 19th Century, Animals, Art, George Harley Drummnd, Great Britain, Henry Raeburn, Horses, Mammals, Painting, Portraits, Scotland
Leave a comment
1750: First Sleep, Second Sleep
That dreaming is a less sound species of sleep, appears from the familiar fact, which has probably been observed by every individual; viz. that the first sleep is much freer from it than the second. We retire to rest, fatigued … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, A. Roger Ekirch, Abraham Rees, Africa, Art, Dreams, France, Homer, Painting, Sleep, Virgil
Leave a comment
