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2/2 Avid traveler & all-around shopper Alethea Talbot, wife of the Earl of Arundel, at their London home w/ the paintings gallery. By Daniel Mytens.
2/2 Abraham: the dad who's always ready to kill his son. Painted in 1408 by Lorenzo Monaco.
2/2 Saint Nicholas saving the sailors. As painted by Lorenzo Monaco, whose day is today.
3/3 Saint Benedict restores a strangely miniature monk to life after he was crushed by a falling wall. From the predella of Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece.
2/2 Christ: Hey Dad, remember Mom? She's got some favors to ask you. A lot, in fact. Mary as Intercessor (still with mini-breast), 1402, by Lorenzo Monaco.
Diederik Tulp on horseback, painted by Paulus Potter. Because of course you’d commission your portrait from an animal painter, right? It’s the horse that matters! Today is Potter’s day.
Swimmers and livestock share the implausibly reflective water in an idyllic if unhygienic summertime landscape by Paulus Potter, 1648. He was born on this day in 1625.
2/2 Mercury and Jupiter have shown up to pay a visit to Philemon & Baucis, and a goose is going to be killed for the occasion. By Jacob van Oost, whose day is today.