Peacocks are said to symbolize eternal life as well as the Goddess of Juno who is the protector of women.
Dogs usually symbolize loyalty, fidelity, guardianship, and watchfulness.
The mouse can symbolize evil, destruction, and hypocrisy among other things.
Cats are said to symbolize cleverness, secretive, mysterious and intelligent.
Doves are said to symbolize nurturing as well as divine.
Horses symbolize power, grace, nobility, and strength.
Butterflies are said to symbolize love, soul, and long life.
Rabbits symbolize rebirth, resurrection, fertility, and sensuality.
North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington, James Pollard, 1792–1867, British, 1821, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Peacocks are said to symbolize eternal life as well as the Goddess of Juno who is the protector of women.
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Artist: James McNeill Whistler, 1876-1877, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Peacocks are said to symbolize eternal life as well as the Goddess of Juno who is the protector of women.
Rear view of the Houses at Schloßfreiheit, Eduard Gaertner, 1855, From the collection of: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Dogs usually symbolize loyalty, fidelity, guardianship, and watchfulness.
Cattle Market before a Large City on a Lake, 1820, Wilhelm von Kobell, 1820, From the collection of: Albertina Museum
Dogs usually symbolize loyalty, fidelity, guardianship, and watchfulness.
The Mouse Story, Unknown, Muromachi to Momoyama period (16th century), From the collection of: Suntory Museum of Art
The mouse can symbolize evil, destruction, and hypocrisy among other things.
Boy with a Candle and Girl with a Mousetrap, possibly Dutch, Before 1686, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery
The mouse can symbolize evil, destruction, and hypocrisy among other things.
Cats on the Railing, Pierre Bonnard, 1909, From the collection of: Ohara Museum of Art
Cats are said to symbolize cleverness, secretive, mysterious and intelligent.
Cats in a Port, Murakami Yuji, 2006, From the collection of: Adachi Museum of Art
Cats are said to symbolize cleverness, secretive, mysterious and intelligent.
Cinderella and the doves plaque, Alexander FISHER, 1898, From the collection of: Art Gallery of South Australia
Doves are said to symbolize nurturing as well as divine.
Doves and Pear Blossoms after Rain, Qian Xuan (Chinese), Yuan dynasty, late 13th century, From the collection of: Cincinnati Art Museum
Doves are said to symbolize nurturing as well as divine.
Equestrian portrait of prince Boris Yusupov, Antoine-Jean Gros, 1809, From the collection of: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Horses symbolize power, grace, nobility, and strength.
Lord Abergavenny's Dark Bay Carriage Horse with a Terrier, Thomas Gooch, 1750–1802, British, 1785, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Horses symbolize power, grace, nobility, and strength.
Butterfly's Dream, Yi, Hee Choung, 2011, From the collection of: Korean Art Museum Association
Butterflies are said to symbolize love, soul, and long life.
Butterflies, Odilon Redon, c. 1910, From the collection of: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Butterflies are said to symbolize love, soul, and long life.
Black Game, Rabbits, and Swallows in a Park, Leonard Knyff, 1650–1721, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1681), ca. 1700, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Rabbits symbolize rebirth, resurrection, fertility, and sensuality.
Game Keeper and Boy Ferreting a Rabbit, John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British, ca. 1828, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Rabbits symbolize rebirth, resurrection, fertility, and sensuality.
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Adachi Museum of Art
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Suntory Museum of Art
Albertina Museum
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Korean Art Museum Association
Yale Center for British Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Ohara Museum of Art
Dulwich Picture Gallery