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Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Pages in category "Swans in art" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The Bird of Peace (also known as Bird of Peace, Mute Swans) is a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China during his 1972 diplomatic visit to the country. The production of the statue was led by Helen Boehm and E. M. Boehm Studios, [1] with design of the statue by head sculptor Maurice Eyeington.
Crested Swans crafted by John Scholl and currently residing at the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, New York. Crested Swans is a painted wooden sculpture crafted by Johannes (John) Scholl around 1910. The term “celebration” was coined in reference to Scholl’s larger-than-life sculptures by the Stony Point Folk Art Gallery. [1]
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces , children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra , children of her husband Tyndareus , the King of Sparta .
The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini . There are six living and many extinct species of swan; in addition, there is a species known as the coscoroba swan which is no longer considered one of the true swans.
The Threatened Swan (Dutch: De bedreigde zwaan) [1] is an oil painting of a mute swan made around 1650 by Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Asselijn. The work is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. [1] It is 144 centimetres (57 in) high and 171 centimetres (67 in) wide.
The swan was "cemented in the imagination as a creature of romance for a whole generation of impressionable working class suburban kids". The anthropomorphic projection may not have been entirely random; [2] swans are believed to take a mate for life, and the graceful white birds might symbolize monogamous felicity. [2]
Swans Reflecting Elephants is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, from 1937. It is held in a private collection. It is held in a private collection. History and description