Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae? Calliphoridae?
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 09:57
#1
For the calypterate lovers...and for other lovers perhaps as well, what is the ID of the fly? ;-)
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 17:23
#2
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.
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 19:44
#3
In Antwerp, in the Musee de Beaux Arts years ago I put this Syrphidae on a photo. The painting is, I believe, end17th century.
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 19:59
#4
It is a normal jpg file, name syrp.jpg, about 150kb! Why can't i attach it?
Posted by Stephen R on 21-10-2010 20:02
#5
Parental controls?
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 20:05
#6
hahahahaha
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 20:08
#7
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....
Posted by ChrisR on 21-10-2010 20:10
#8
Ruud's syrphid :)
Posted by Stephen R on 21-10-2010 21:12
#9
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.