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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Marriage Feast at Cana, c. 1672, oil on canvas, 179 X 235 cm (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts)
For Purim: Esther before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi, Padovanino, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Wagtails, ca. 1615–18 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Raphael, Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (La Disputa)
1510-11, detail, presumably showing the construction of New St. Peter's (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican)
Partying like the Cotters on Saturday Night.
[Eunice Pinney, c. 1815, National Gallery of Art] #NewYearsEve
Page from the Taccuino (drawing book) of Giovanni de' Grassi, late 14th century, ink and watercolor on parchment (Biblioteca civica, Bergamo)
It's alway the right time for this allegorical(?) lesson. “Nature Forging a Baby,” British Library, Harley 4425 (Roman de la Rose), fol. 140, Bruges, c. 1490-c.1500.
"[The Turkey] has a fleshy appendage which hangs above the bill. It puffs up, swells or shrinks. People who dislike others give them to eat or drink that bit of soft flesh above the bill, so that they may not get an erection." -Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general, 1579