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2/2 Killing an exceptionally large alligator in 1560s Florida, as recorded (ostensibly) by French traveler Jacques le Moyne des Morgues. It's his day today.
3/3 Rose, heartsease, sweet pea, garden pea, and a lax-flowered orchid. By Jacques le Moyne de Morgues of France, in England.
2/2 French roses and an oxeye daisy, beautifully studied in about 1570 by Jacques le Moyne, whose day is today.
2/2 Dad's having a meeting, the kids are bored. Some things never change. From the camera picta by Andrea Mantegna.
Hermes: Calypso, stop seducing Odysseus! Calypso to us: who me? Kid at left having big fun w/ armor. By Gerard de Lairesse, born OTD in 1640.
Madonna lactans with eerie red & blue cherubim. Hyper-real yet utterly unreal. Right wing of Melun diptych, 1450, by Jean Fouquet. It's his day.
4/4 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 paradoxical philosophical nihilism of Pieter Bruegel, whose day is 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. https://t.co/dbrTZpu0vw