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Happy baptism day to Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614). In 1589, Philip II of Spain paid her 1000 ducats (i.e. a lot of money) for this Holy Family with St. John (Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial, Madrid)
Happy feast day of St. Lawrence! What are you barbecuing tonight?
From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: X-Rays of Caravaggio's David and the head of Goliath (1600/01) show that he reused a wooden panel that another artist had used before, probably to save money. Earlier painting represents Venus, Mars, and Cupid in a late mannerist style.
Anthony Van Dyck, St. Rosalia, patron of Palermo, c. 1625 (London, Apsley House)
Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, The Painter’s Studio, oil on canvas, 143.5 × 194.5 cm (Madrid, Colección Masaveu)
Vincenzo Campi, Fruit Seller, c. 1580, Oil on canvas, 145 x 215 cm (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Happy #NationalSiblingsDay
[Bartolomeo Bimbi, Two-Headed Lamb, 1721, Oil on canvas, 58 x 72 cm, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence]
Children are creepy.
[Israhel van Meckenem, Children at Play, ca. 1490, Engraving (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)]