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winterbadgerI was looking up some dates about the Ottoman Empire (just to make a comparative jibe about the book cover illustration of Weatherford) when I got to a page about Ottoman art, which had this image.
Miniature painting of Noah's Ark by a Twentieth-century Turkish miniaturist
That is *so* beautiful! The clouds and the sea enchant me, but I also love all the little animal heads sticking out the portholes, the ship itself, the gold disc of the Moon (?), the few mountains still poking above the water, the buildings crumbling off them, and the fish swimming about in this great new sea! What an amazingly lovely piece of work!
Miniature painting of Noah's Ark by a Twentieth-century Turkish miniaturist
That is *so* beautiful! The clouds and the sea enchant me, but I also love all the little animal heads sticking out the portholes, the ship itself, the gold disc of the Moon (?), the few mountains still poking above the water, the buildings crumbling off them, and the fish swimming about in this great new sea! What an amazingly lovely piece of work!
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Date: 2009-11-20 10:18 pm (UTC)One of the reasons I knew I would like the Globetrotter (who got back today--yay!) is that when we were out hiking through some lovely wet autumn woods it made her think of a favourite poem.
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