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 Muscidae? Calliphoridae?
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 09:57
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
For the calypterate lovers...and for other lovers perhaps as well, what is the ID of the fly? ;-)
rvanderweele attached the following image:  [188.78Kb] ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 17:23
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
I remember to have seen on several 17th and 18th century paintings Syrphidae. Maybe a good idea to start collecting copies of paintings showing flies. In the Mauritshuis I saw a painting with flowers and a Eristalis or Syrphus....years ago.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 19:44
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
In Antwerp, in the Musee de Beaux Arts years ago I put this Syrphidae on a photo. The painting is, I believe, end17th century.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 19:59
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
It is a normal jpg file, name syrp.jpg, about 150kb! Why can't i attach it?
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 21-10-2010 20:02
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Parental controls? |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 20:05
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
hahahahaha
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 21-10-2010 20:08
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
It is interesting to read about the painting of flies in the past centuries. A lot of symbolism, though on the painting with the charming lady, this symbolism is less obvious not to say completely absent....
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-10-2010 20:10
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Ruud's syrphid 
ChrisR attached the following image:  [81.84Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 21-10-2010 21:12
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
rvanderweele wrote: It is interesting to read about the painting of flies in the past centuries. A lot of symbolism, though on the painting with the charming lady, this symbolism is less obvious not to say completely absent.... Maybe it is Beelzebub (Lord of the Flies), and she is about to assert her resistance to temptation by swatting him. |
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