See also this:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia_Lurati/publication/336944609_The_Merchant%27s_Eye_A_New_Perception_of_Exotic_Animals/links/5dbc0eda4585151435db7f1e/The-Merchants-Eye-A-New-Perception-of-Exotic-Animals.pdf
"While in Egypt, in 1436, Ciriaco [d'Anconna] saw a giraffe,
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_giraffe
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On 27 Jul 2020, at 1:43 am, Tristan von Neumann
wrote:
How did the illuminator (Mr. Vidal?) know how a Giraffe looks?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Capirola_lutebook.j
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Maybe he had seen Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel
in Florence?
"The Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Ghirlandaio, part of a cycle in
the Tornabuoni Chapel was painted just after the arrival of the Medici
giraffe and shows the animal descending a hill on the right-hand
Although exotic animals like monkeys were kept in aristocratic
menageries, giraffes were rarely seen in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_giraffe
"The Medici giraffe was a giraffe presented to Lorenzo de' Medici in
1487 possibly by al-Ashraf Qaitbay, the Burji Sultan of Egypt, in
Just preparinig to print my own facsimile of Capirola...
I was wondering: most animals look really realistic (yes I know, there's
Griffons and Unicorns too and those do not exist).
How did the illuminator (Mr. Vidal?) know how a Giraffe looks?
