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Picasso's images of the dove became a phenomenon around the world. Between 1949 and the artist's death, he created numerous works, including posters, prints and drawings, which depicted the Dove of Peace. Variations of the image were used for Peace Congresses in Wroclaw, Stockholm, Sheffield, Vienna, Rome and Moscow.
The bird has been written about (including in poems, songs, [A] and fiction) and illustrated by many notable writers and artists, and is depicted in art to this day, for example in Walton Ford's 2002 painting Falling Bough, and National Medal of Arts winner John A. Ruthven's 2014 mural in Cincinnati, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of ...
Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.It is the only family in the order Columbiformes.These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres.
Child with a Dove (French: L'enfant au pigeon), also described as Child Holding a Dove, Child with a Pigeon is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1901 at the start of his Blue Period. The painting is a depiction of a young girl in a white dress holding a white dove, and represents an important ...
List of wildlife works of art by Frank Weston Benson; Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger) Bouquet près de la fenêtre; The ...
The white-crowned pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) is a fruit and seed-eating species of bird in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. It is found primarily in the Caribbean . John James Audubon painted these pigeons, including the watercolour painting in his work, Birds of America , published in the early 19th century.
The kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), also known as kūkupa (Northern Māori dialects), New Zealand pigeon or wood pigeon is a species of pigeon native to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin described the bird in 1789 as a large, conspicuous pigeon up to 50 cm (20 in) in length and 550–850 g (19–30 oz) in weight, with a white breast and ...
Rodrigues solitaire Temporal range: Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ 1708 drawing by François Leguat, the only known illustration of this species by someone who observed it alive Conservation status Extinct (mid-18th century) (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Subfamily ...