{"id":2418,"date":"2019-03-19T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:54:01","slug":"birds-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/birds-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds in Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Newark Museum has celebrated its treasures of Asian Art<\/a> in many exhibits.\u00a0 From March 13, 2019 until February 23, 2020, \u201cBirding in Asian Art\u201d<\/a> continues this impressive tradition.<\/p>\n

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Detail of a miniature of an owl (Bubo) being attacked by three smaller birds. Image taken from f. 47 of Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. Written in Latin.<\/p><\/div>\n

This exhibit reminds us of the long history in the Mediterranean world of drawing moral and spiritual lessons from the wonders of nature. In Greek the Physiologos<\/em>, a \u201cdiscourse on nature\u201d of approximately the third century A.D., gathered earlier traditions into a synthesis that became popular in the Latin bestiaries<\/em> of the eleventh century and later.<\/p>\n

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Detail of a miniature of a crocodile. Image taken from f. 24 of Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149). Written in Latin and French.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Book of God\u2019s Word and the Book of Nature offered insights into the meaning of life for many generations of people who looked for ways to teach guiding principles in regard to faith and morality. The developments in East and West complement each other and may still have lessons for people of the modern world.<\/p>\n

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Detail of a miniature of Adam naming the animals, with a stag, a lion, a donkey, a rabbit and a man riding a camel. Image taken from f. 34v of Bestiary (ff. 3-141), Lapidary (ff. 141v-149). Written in Latin and French.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Newark Museum has celebrated its treasures of Asian Art in many exhibits.\u00a0 From March 13, 2019 until February 23, 2020, \u201cBirding in Asian Art\u201d continues this impressive tradition. This exhibit reminds us of the long history in the Mediterranean … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}