26-08-2015, 09:35 PM | #1 |
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OK it's a bit boring but I saw this tortoise on holiday. It's a 16th century cast bronze job from Italy, currently in an art gallery in Rotterdam.
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27-08-2015, 07:46 AM | #2 |
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I am not sure what to say Jonathan......it isn't pretty is it, though I guess being 16th century it was a clever thing to make, and obviously a great study of a tortoise. In fact the more I am thinking of it the more I am liking it!! Though now I am thinking was a real life tortoise used to make the 'cast'........ Oh the emotions art brings out!!! X x x. Hugs x x x
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27-08-2015, 11:24 AM | #3 |
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that's what I was aiming for with my clay tortoises ! (different thread) no where near !!! I think it's fantastic. How lovely to have something so old and probably with huge history attached. It needs a name you know . CB
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It does look quite life like in some ways, and I do wonder if some poor 16th century tort was used to make a plaster cast from 😳
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we need a history. Has any one read Portrait of a Tortoise? Timmy, who was female - always understated - at Selborne ... wow brilliant - we need Little Italy's portrait and his name or we shall have to name him ! CB
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