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Tobias catches a giant miraculous fish. Angel with A+ dog tells him (in the nicest possible way) how he can use it to cure blindness. Painted 1613 by Pieter Lastman, whose day is today.
David & Uriah, David trying to look all casual and not at all like his sealed letter will ensure Uriah's death. By Pieter Lastman, d. OTD 1633.
2/2 Native American in the environs of Biblical Jerusalem, wondering how he got here. By Pieter Lastman.
Saint Philip baptizing an Ethiopian eunuch, who has brought along a Native American friend for the occasion. Why not? 1620 by Pieter Lastman, whose day is today.
2/2 Animal comedy-dramas of Pieter Lastman #2: Balaam's donkey starts talking. "Woah, I see an Angel! Miracle!" Balaam not liking this Mr. Ed thing.
2/2 Writer Boris Pasternak by the Baltic at Merekule, 1910. Painted by his father Leonid Pasternak, born this day 1862.
2/2 Rainer Maria Rilke in Moscow, 1928, looking just slightly less tormented. As painted by Leonid Pasternak.
Max Lieberman opening an exhibition at the Berlin Academy in 1930, by Leonid Pasternak who was born OTD in 1862.
Chinese vase, spectacular. Flowers, even more spectacular. As recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist. It's her beautiful day.
Farmer's peony with narcissus, as studied by Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian. Ran in the family, this natural talent!