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2/2 When out to socialize, do not forget to wear your mask! This one designed in 1585 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
2/2 Bon appetit! Instruments of human sustenance: agriculture, and cooking. From about 1570, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. It’s his day today.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1593, in Milan, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Started as a portrait painter. Went in other directions. Here drawn by himself.
2/2 Also harrassed for bathing, Bathsheba. Painted many years later, in 1636, by Artemisia. She never tired of these two themes. Today is her day.
2/2 The Arundel Marbles, now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He would have approved!
Drawing (by me) of the great patron and collector Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, looking stern and intelligent. The Earl was born on this day in 1586.
2/2 The artist's long-suffering parents. "Moishe, you'll never make a living painting!" Marc Chagall, born OTD in 1887, oldest of their 11 kids.
I and the village, 1911: a marvelous love-note to home from Marc Chagall, who was born on this day in 1887.
2/2 British officer Colonel William Fitch and his sisters Sarah and Ann. John Singleton Copley painting the other side! But this was from 1800, in that brief period when everybody was friends.
Watson, saved from the shark, went on to live a long life (was Lord Mayor of London!) tho absent a leg. Here, his moment of peril, immortalized in 1778 by John Singleton Copley whose day is today.