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And now, some news of People Nobody Likes: the tax-collector as painted by Jan Massys. In my day you could also pay your taxes in chickens and eggs. So handy!
Died (alas!) on this day in 1575, Jan Massys of Antwerp. Here, a Holy Family w/ problematic dynamic: Dad is just not part of the love! Sad!
2/2 Such a perfect profile on this far less enigmatic woman painted by Filippo Lippi, whose day is today.
2/2 In a lush landscape, beautiful demons have come to tempt Saint Anthony with an apple. By Joachim Patinir, who lost his day yesterday, with help on the demonic ladies from Quinten Metsys.
2/2 Homework. So boring. Should be out drawing ancient sculpture! Michael Sweerts knows what's what, and his day is today.
Forever blowing bubbles: allegory of Vanity, 1663, by Karel Dujardin. Today is his day.
Group of placid farm animals, just chilling together in the shade of a tree in 1656. Why can't humans be this peaceable? Karel Dujardin sometimes just preferred the animals, and it's his day.
2/2 Karel Dujardin, now looking a bit skeptical about himself. Today is his day.
Little J, you're not supposed to be arguing with your elders in the Temple. J: I am smarter than them and you know it. Some words between adolescent Jesus & his parents as imagined by Simone Martini in 1342.
2/2 Back in his usual mode, Simone Martini with a triptych that's chock full of grumpy saints and angels. Nothing cheerful about heaven, according to Martini! It's his day.