Dr Chelsea Nichols is a curator exploring the strange, dark place between art and curiosities at The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things and she posted this engrossing thread about Sex Weasels in renaissance art. Weird stories like this is what makes art history so great:
Source: Dr Chelsea Nichols
(via: Geek Girls)
…just so as you know a sable is a marten and ermine is a stoat in winter coat…
…correction: ermine is a weasel not a stoat as stated in my previous post…
A weasel is weasily distinguished, whereas a stoat’stoatally different.