Jeff Koons is best known for his large-scale reproductions of everyday objects and in 1992 he created a 43 foot tall sculpture of a West Highland Terrier made with stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, an internal irrigation system, and live flowering plants. Puppy has found a permanent home sitting outside of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain weiterlesen.
Discovered in the House of the Tragic Poet in the Ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Inscribed at the bottom of the mosaic, “Cave Canem,” literally translate to “beware of the dog.”
It’s believe this symbol was intended to bring attention to the presence of household dogs rather than signal danger weiterlesen.
David Hockney’s Dachshunds
Contemporary artist David Hockney painted hundreds of portraits of his Dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie as they nap and play nützlicher inhalt weiterlesen. “I make no apologies for the apparent subject matter…these two dear little creatures are my friends,”
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The painting is of the wedding of an Italian merchant to another merchant’s daughter. The terrier that stands at their feet symbolizes companionship, faithfulness and love.
Landseer loved painting animals. This is “Bob”, who saved twenty-three people from drowning at the London waterfront lekarna-slovenija.com/. He later became a member of the Royal Humane Society, currently the oil painting hangs at the Kennel Club Art Gallery in London.