Create your own bat colony: a downloadable art activity designed by curator and museum educator Alice Fennessy
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, Historical Art • Tags: animals in art, bat, educational, guest post
According to superstition, if you rub the blood of a bat on your face you’ll be able to see at night. But if you use this bat, you’ll also get more hand-some. Never too cool for a good pun. I love this quirky little bat with his many hands. It comes from The Art of Falconry (De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus), a Latin ornithology book originally published in 1241 by Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1196-1250. More than […]
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: bat, humor, medieval, superstition
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things