Tall Horse
A play about Zarafa, produced in 2004 by the Handspring Puppet Company in collaboration with the Sogolon Puppet Trou- pe of Mali. It is quite amazing, who all had been inspired by M. Allin’s historiographic Zarafa.
read more ...In the good old days…
when the gods gene- rously bestowed manna upon us.
The Gathering of Manna by Francesco Ubertini (alias Bac- chiacca, 1494-1557)
Amidst ugly monsters
a giraffe …
In: Ambroise Paré, Le livre des monstres et prodiges, Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1628.
Don’t loose your head
by André da Loba
read more ...Geared up to do battle
Niko Pirosmani’s “martial” giraffe
read more ...As proud as a peacock
A white giraffe in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500), symbolizing – now that the spots are gone – the purity of the soul.
read more ...Flame-resistant
burning since 1937:
Salvador Dalí’s giraffe on Inventions of the Monsters
The “Little” Folk’s Presents
Africans bringing tribute, grave chamber of Heje.
Ca. 1358-1350 B.C.
Comb your giraffe!
An ivory comb from Egypt, ca. 3900-3500 B.C. (Naqada I – early Naqada ll)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
La Ciraffe
Georges–Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, 1776
I can’t stop wondering about the regularity of those bristles …
What would she do without her ... fainting couch?
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