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2/2 Eighteen years old, King, Habsburg all the way, and painted by Velazquez: Philip IV of Spain. It's his birthday.
2/2 How that section of the Disputa ended up looking. We notice that nobody is even slightly nude!
2/2 Tobias catches giant miraculous fish. Angel with A+ dog tells him (in nicest possible way) how he can use it to cure blindness and ward off demons. Painted 1613 by Pieter Lastman, whose day was today.
2/2 Native American in environs of Biblical Jerusalem, wondering how he got here. By Pieter Lastman, a painter but not an ethnographer/geographer. It's been his day.
Saint Philip baptizing an Ethiopian eunuch, who has brought along a Native American friend for the occasion. Why not? 1620 by Pieter Lastman, whose day is today.
Odysseus & Nausicaa. Because how often do Old Masters show a naked man grovelling before bunch of clothed women? Here from Pieter Lastman, whose day is today.
David & Uriah, David trying to look all casual and not at all like his sealed letter will ensure Uriah's death. By Pieter Lastman, d. OTD 1633.
3/3 Christ steps delicately from the tomb, careful not to wake sleeping guards. Thoughtful! Plus A+ palm tree, from Taddeo Gaddi, for #EasterSunday
Animal comedy-dramas with Pieter Lastman, #1: Jonah shocked to be expelled from belly of the whale, 1621. Today is Lastman's day.
2/2 Josephine & Lydia in the nursery, 1908. By their father Leonid Pasternak who was born OTD in 1862.