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Flies don't bother this cheerful elephant, in Earth from Four Elements by Joris Hoefnagel. Today is his day.
2/2 Another pear, a dragonfly, a carnation, and a prayer. From Joris Hoefnagel.
2/2 Virgin & Child before a landscape, 1523, by Adriaen Isenbrandt, artist of calm and serenity. Today was his peaceful day.
2/2 A woman's perspective: Fede Galizia paints the forbidden encounter in 1616, for Mary Magdalene's feast day.
Back when she was a bad girl: Dance of Mary Magdalene by Lucas van Leyden, 1519. In midground she's hunting. At least she had some fun before all the penitence! Today is her feast day.
2/2 Earnestly preparing for a very long & dangerous voyage on that little ship out there, and watched by some Roma as well as various Dutch bystanders.
Did Abraham Willaerts go to Brazil with Johan Maurits? This painting of Recife suggests that he did, lucky he! It’s his birthday.
2/2 Another sea storm from Adam Willaerts of Utrecht, this one including extra-treacherous rocks and A+ sea monster, 1614.
Born on this day in 1577: Adam Willaerts of Utrecht. Painter of marine things. Here, ships in a storm, 1636.