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  2. Category:Snakes in art - Wikipedia

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    The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) Snakes (M. C. Escher) The Soul Breaking the Links Holding it to the Earth; T. Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent; Triumph of the Name of ...

  3. Serpents in Aztec art - Wikipedia

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    Coiled Serpent, unknown Aztec artist, 15th–early 16th century CE, Stone, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States [1] The use of serpents in Aztec art ranges greatly from being an inclusion in the iconography of important religious figures such as Quetzalcoatl and Cōātlīcue, [2] to being used as symbols on Aztec ritual objects, [3] and decorative stand-alone representations ...

  4. Dendera light - Wikipedia

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    (Above the snake): Words spoken by Harsomtus, the great God, who dwells in Dendera, who rises out of the lotus flower as a living Ba, whose perfection the Qematiu-images of his Ka are raising, whose Seshemu-image is raised (?) by the crew of the Mandjet-day-barge, whose body is carried by the djed-pillar, underneath his Seshemu-image is the ...

  5. Serpent symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic serpent generally follows in the tradition of earlier Abrahamic myths as a symbol for the seductive draw of wisdom. [32] This symbolism is reflected in various stories and parables, such as the tale of the snake-catcher and the serpent from Rumi, which uses the serpent as a symbol for the sensual soul within human beings. [33]

  6. The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) - Wikipedia

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    The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.

  7. Botanical illustration - Wikipedia

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    These illustrations depicted a vast array of European and exotic plants, often accompanied by detailed annotations on plant anatomy, including flowers, leaves, seeds, and fruits at various stages of development. While a few drawings were done in black ink or pencil, most were finely enhanced with watercolor.

  8. Snakes in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Yanwei (延维) is a snake deity in Chinese mythology, depicted with a human head and a snake’s body, featuring two heads. Its body is purple, its heads are red, and it measures roughly the length of a cart's yoke. Yanwei is known to abhor thunder, becoming motionless whenever it occurs.

  9. Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe - Wikipedia

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    O'Keeffe experimented with depicting flowers in her high school art class. Her teacher explained how important it was to examine the flower before drawing it. So, O'Keeffe held it in different ways, capturing different perspectives of the flowers, and also created studies of only a portion of the flower.