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Hermes: Calypso, stop seducing Odysseus! Calypso to us: who me? Kid at left having big fun w/ armor. Gerard de Lairesse, born OTD in 1640.
Madonna lactans w/ eerie red & blue cherubim. Hyper-real yet utterly unreal. Right wing of the Melun diptych, 1450, by Jean Fouquet. It's his day.
2/2 Saint Jerome in anamorphic form, and as revealed by a reflective cylinder. painted in the 1630s by Matthias Stom. It's his day.
3/3 Upside down & rightside up: the joys of Bruegel’s children.
3/3 It's Everyman, seeking himself in the world of material things. But that's no good, because nobody knows himself. Lucky Nobody! The wonderful philosophical nihilism of Pieter Bruegel, whose day is today.
2/2 Two men contemplate the crescent moon, 1830. By Caspar David Friedrich, whose day has been today.
Gothic church, filled w/ Flemish society's piety and rituals. Painted in 1615 by Hendrick van Steenwyck (whose day is today) and provided w/ figures by my friend Jan Brueghel.
2/2 Hands and feet: a few moments of the agony explored (here and elsewhere) by Matthias Grunewald, whose day is today.
Three Horatii brothers swear an oath of self-sacrifice, while the ladies delicately weep. They were not consulted! As depicted by Jacques-Louis David (whose day is today) in 1784.