The Sultan of the Crows conferring with his viziers, a page from the Arabic version of Kalila wa dimna, dated 1210 CE.
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Vincent Sheridan (Irish, b.1945), Murmurations, Anticipation and Cloudbursts
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'Bee-eater', miniature on the verso of a leaf from the Kevorkian album, early 19th century, India, Mughal dynasty
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André Kertész, Avenida de Julio, Buenos Aires, 1962
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Owl’s Nest, ca.1505-1516
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Albrecht Dürer ‘Wing of a European Roller’ (modified) 1512. Watercolor and gouache on vellum
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Relief plaque with face of an owl, made in Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, ca. 400-30 BCE
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Vincent van Gogh, The Wheat Field With a Lark, 1887.
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Birds and Flowers by Mohammad Yusuf, Miniature, Persia, 17th century CE
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Laura Levine, Songbirds of the Catskills, 2005, acrylic on vintage trading stamps and birch panel, 30" x 30"
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Giotto di Bondone - Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds, c. 1297-99
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Pigeon feeding near the Blue Mosque, Mazar i Sharif, Afghanistan by Steve McCurry
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The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-din Attar. Persian Manuscript, circa 1600 CE; Safavid Persia / Iran
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Jean Seberg in Romain Gary’s ‘Birds in Peru’ (1968)
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Amir Cohen, A Murmuration of Starlings over a field near Netivot, Israel, January 24, 2013.
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Constantin Brancusi. Bird in Space. 1928.
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Imari Sometsuke, Underglaze Blue Porcelain Ware. Large plate with crane design (Japan, 19th century)
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Apple Blossoms and Hummingbird - Martin Johnson Heade, 1871
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Joan Miro, Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird, 1941
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Sparrows on the Berlin Wall by Paul Schutzer. 1962
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Paul Klee, Landscape with Yellow Birds, watercolor, 1923
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Albrecht Dürer, Studies of a Tree Bullfinch, c.1500
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Olivier Messiaen - Notation of birdsong
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