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3/3 They were just trying to have a nice, quiet picnic when all of a sudden the neighbors showed up in Commedia del'Arte costumes and attempted an amusing skit. By Louis de Caullery.
3/3 Triumph of Winter. Don't let it happen! Only in Narnia. For the rest of us, it's spring, and Louis de Caullery just doesn't know it.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1657, Balthasar van der Ast. Collected, arranged & painted things of natural beauty. Here, basket of fabulous flowers, some fruits, & a few shells, one inhabited. 1622.
2/2 I made a drawing after Michelangelo's brilliant Libyan Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel. Toes included! We’re celebrating his birthday today.
2/2 Twenty years later, I took my drawing after Michelangelo (#BTD 1475), made a counter-proof of it, and revised it to be a more powerful figure. Because there is always room for improvement!
Michelangelo's fantastic Entombment, an early work from ca. 1500. Always love this painting's total sense of unreality, & strong grace. Today is Michelangelo's day.
2/2 Allegory of wealth, in which we note that nobody really looks very happy. By Hans von Aachen, who died on this day in 1615.
2/2 Portrait of Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, painted by Hans von Aachen when both were in Prague, magnet for artists, c. 1595.
4/4 Iconoclasm! Holy images taken to be burned on the pyre. Sacrilege! As depicted by Antoine Caron, whose day is today.
@GerardAraud 2/2 Henri II and Catherine de' Medici, in happier times, with a few ancient deities in the sky. Also a tapestry design, and by Antoine Caron. It's his day.