"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Renaissance Saluki
An image from the 1500's, oldest western one I know of, by Federico Zuccaro, courtesy of Jess. Anyone have any info on the artist?
http://www.saluki.it/arte.htm
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ReplyDeleteI had some info squirreled away on that piece:
Studies of a Greyhound
1563-64
Red and black chalk on paper, 137 x 207 mm
Musйes Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels