Chelonia - Turtles Size:70×100 cm Baroque portrait painting with oversized

Baroque portrait painting with oversized cocktail

Title: Old City

serape and sandals

Creator: Jaques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty

Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France

Chelonia - Turtles Size:70×100 cm Baroque portrait painting with oversizedAncient, patient and beautifully patterned, sea turtles glide across this Haeckel plate with their shells rendered in intricate mosaics of brown, amber and green. Ernst Haeckel composed the sheet so that each turtle shows off the geometry of its carapace, the scutes fitting together like inlaid tile a reminder of why these animals have fascinated naturalists for centuries. The print is drawn from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), the 100