Natural wonders
| 3 September, 2010 | Adie Chan |
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Natural history painting have always had a singular effect on me. I find them at once relaxing and exhilarating. There’s something special about viewing scenes rendered by people who may have been among the first to record them with life-like fidelity. Feels like a special privilege. As you gear up (or wind down) for the weekend ahead, feast your eyes on some of the beautiful painting and drawings held at London’s Natural History Museum. Below, a couple of my favorites.
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Love the peacock painting! The Harvard Museum of Natural History had a small exhibit a couple years ago of the painter Jacques Burkhardt’s paintings from Agassiz’s 19th c. Thayer expedition to Brazil. But for art mimicking nature, nothing compares to the beauty and scientific accuracy of the thousands of hand-crafted glass models of flowering plants and fruits created by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka in the Ware Collection of ‘Glass Flowers’ on permanent display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge. Some images here:
http://www.yourgardenshow.com/users/HarvardGlassFlowers/ware-collection-of-glass-flowers-at-the-harvard-museum-of-natural-history
Thanks for the link, Mary. I’ll have to compare with Chihuly.