Last one for #InternationalZebraDay: every known example of #zebras in #ancient #mosaics, all #Byzantine 5th-6th centuries (if anyone knows of any others please share!!)
1. Diakonikon-Baptistery, Mount Zebo, Jordan 530 CE
2. Villa of the Amazons, Edessa (Urfa), Turkey 5th-6th c.
3. Gaza Synagogue, Palestine 6th c.
4. Western portico of the Byzantine Agora, Bet She'an National Park, Israel 6th c.

plus one more - see next post!

Last one for #InternationalZebraDay: Andy Warhol, Grevy’s Zebra, screenprint (signed & numbered edition of 150), 1983. One of ten prints from his Endangered Animals series. Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) is still statused as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is the most threatened of the three zebra species; it's also the largest living wild equid.

Resharing my favorite Morris Hirshfield painting from the recent American Folk Art Museum exhibition for #InternationalZebraDay: Zebra Family, 1942, oil on canvas.

PS - reminder that Hirshfield was a self-taught artist who didn't start painting until age 65...and then made amazing art like this!

More for #InternationalZebraDay: Zebras by #African #TingaTinga artist Steven Mkumba (Makonde, b. 1965). Both oil/acrylic/ink on canvas, made in Tanzania in association with the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
1. Mkumba's Zebra, 2020 https://tingatingaart.com/products/mkumbas-zebra
2. Stripes and Pride, 2019 https://tingatingaart.com/products/stripes-and-pride
More about the TingaTinga school of art here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingatinga_(painting)

More for #InternationalZebraDay: Victor Vasarely (Hungarian, 1906-1997), #Zebras, 1937 and 1938 versions. Vasarely was a pioneer of modern #OpArt (this is considered one of the very first works of the genre) and he returned to the zebra motif often throughout his career.

More for #InternationalZebraDay: Detail from p.189 of the sole known surviving copy of _Yi yu tu zhi_, c. 1430, from #MingDynasty #China. This illustration records what was probably the first #zebra seen in China; it was brought back from Admiral Zheng He's voyage to East #Africa (one of the "Ming Treasure Voyages") and presented to the Ming emperor, along with a giraffe and an oryx (also probably the first of each seen in China). University of Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FC-00246-00005/1

More for #InternationalZebraDay: #zebras in a #Byzantine #Greek #illuminatedmanuscript of the Book of Job, c. 1362.
BnF Grec 135, f. 100r and 224r. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55012997z

@𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗼𝗼
Happy #InternationalZebraDay! 🦓 Here you can see our zebras demonstrating one of the reasons scientists believe they have their famous stripes: for camouflage! Zebras' stripes help them avoid predators by breaking up their outlines. https://t.co/aszQquP6EP
∙ 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟹𝟷, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟼:𝟹𝟼𝙿𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/phillyzoo/status/1620566665376169986

#zoo #animals

Happy #InternationalZebraDay! Here's a 1751 George Edwards illustration (from the Wellcome Collection) and a 1763 George Stubbs painting (from the Yale Center for British Art) depicting the first #zebras seen in Britain: a now #extinct #Quagga, and a rare Cape Mountain Zebra (which also was almost driven to extinction but has thankfully since recovered).
More on the blog: https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/01/31/animal-art-of-the-day-for-international-zebra-day-1-george-edwards-george-stubbs-and-the-first-british-zebras/

Happy #InternationalZebraDay! Here's George Stubbs' 1763 painting of the 1st zebra seen in England, now in the Yale Center for British Art collection. He painted it so well we can even identify the subspecies - a rare Cape Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra zebra).

More info on the blog: https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/01/31/animal-art-of-the-day-for-international-zebra-day-1-george-stubbs-and-the-first-zebra-seen-in-england/

Zebra (aka The First Zebra Seen in England), 1763
George Stubbs (British, 1724–1806)
oil on canvas
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5009

@𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗭𝗼𝗼
Here's another #AnimalWelfareWin: #InternationalZebraDay edition 🦓 Our African Savanna team was busy last year working towards a new paddock for Grevy's zebra Jake 🦓

Learn more: https://t.co/0FIK9Qw4mH #AnimalWelfareWins https://t.co/fX1Ej4uryZ
∙ 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟹𝟷, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷:𝟻𝟷𝙿𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TheTorontoZoo/status/1620494946036850701

#zoo #animals

RT @brookfield_zoo
We're highlighting the majestic Grevy's zebra in honor of #InternationalZebraDay! 🦓

The Grevy's zebra is one of the most endangered animals in Africa. The population has steadily declined since the 1970s and now, fewer than 2,000 remain.

It’s #InternationalZebraDay! Here’s a plains zebra I painted in 2021.

#SciArt #Illustration #Zoology

It’s #InternationalZebraDay! Here’s a plains zebra I painted in 2021.

#SciArt #Illustration #zoology

Today is #InternationalZebraDay and the #Zebra is the mascot for #EhlersDanlosSyndrome

Why the Zebra? https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/why-the-zebra/

Some of you know my daughter is a “Zebra” and I suspect that I am too.

#EDS #EhlersDanlos #NEISvoid #Thrive #Dazzle #NurseMastodon #MedMastodon

Apparently it's #InternationalZebraDay. That's good for a smile.

@𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗭𝗼𝗼
Hoof hearted 🤍🦓

Happy #InternationalZebraDay from Tori, Lori-Ann and our three stallions Jake, Obi and Poe.

Learn more: https://t.co/gqgakrO4Lm https://t.co/EPxhXDNbyV
∙ 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟹𝟷, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷𝟶:𝟶𝟿𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TheTorontoZoo/status/1620439131451957248

#zoo #animals

It's #InternationalZebraDay !

Here a Grevy's zebra I made a few years back. Done in ZBrush and Blender, rendered in Blender.

#InternationalZebraDay 🦓

RT @talloaksfrom@twitter.com

#InternationalZebraDay John Edward Gray (1800–1875), zoologist, named 'Burchell's zebra' in honour of naturalist explorer William John Burchell (1781–1863). Both were Fellows of the @LinneanSociety@twitter.com
#LearnaboutLinnSoc #zebra

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/talloaksfrom/status/1620342219847929856