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  2. The Goldfinch (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The painting shows a life-size European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) on top of a feeder—a blue container with a lid, enclosed by two wooden half-rings fixed to the wall. The bird is perched on the upper ring, to which its leg is attached by a fine chain. [7] [8] The painting is signed and dated "C fabritivs 1654" at the bottom. [1]

  3. Palekh miniature - Wikipedia

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    Palekh miniature (Russian: Палехская миниатюра) is a Russian folk handicraft of a miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mâché (including the creation of small boxes, cigarette cases, and powder cases).

  4. Russian lacquer art - Wikipedia

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    A Palekh jewelry box depicting a scene from the fairy tale Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf. Russian lacquer art developed from the art of icon painting, which came to an end with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The icon painters, who previously had been employed by supplying not only churches but people's homes, needed a way ...

  5. Still Life of Fruit and Dead Fowl - Wikipedia

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    Still Life of Fruit and Dead Fowl or A Stoneware jug, Fruit, and Dead Game Birds is a c. 1650 oil-on-panel still-life painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Harmen Steenwijck. It features dead birds which are meant to represent mortality and fruits which are meant to convey wealth.

  6. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious ...

  7. Fedoskino miniature - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary Fedoskino painting preserves the typical features of Russian folk art. The use of oil paint, typically applied in many layers, is a distinctive feature of a Fedoskino miniature, as well as the use of mother-of-pearl, pure gold or silver leaf under segments of the background to create the effect of a shimmering glow or silvery ...

  8. Singing bird box - Wikipedia

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    An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.

  9. Melchior d'Hondecoeter - Wikipedia

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    Birds, Butterflies and Frog with Plants and Fungi (1668), oil on canvas, 68.3 x 56.8 cm., National Gallery Backyard Birds (1660s), oil on canvas, 105 x 182 cm., Musée Condé Animals and Plants of the Forest (ca. 1670-80), oil on canvas, 81.2 x 64.7 cm., Yale University Art Gallery

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