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2/2 Fish market at evening by a river. Drawn by Isaac van Ostade, whose day is today.
2/2 Mars’s view, given to us in the mirror. Clever Tintoretto!
3/3 Saint George and the Dragon, w/ princess getting away fast just in case. Love the zig-zag composition in this great painting from 1555 by Tintoretto, whose day is today.
2/2 Women can also experience the thrill of drawing after plaster casts! Here Wallerant Vaillant in a mezzotint (a technique that was partly his invention) after Gabriel Metsu.
Three pomegranates. Two shells. One stag beetle. Brought together & painted by Giovanna Garzoni, whose day is today.
Flowers emerge exuberantly from a dusky vase that reflects the window of Giovanna Garzoni, who painted this and whose day is today.
Plague pic du jour: Alas, poor William Wiseman! Buried in a field outside the city walls, victim of the great London plague of 1665.
2/2 Beautiful Annunciation by Louis Finson. Having a more normative moment. He didn't have many! His day is today.
Saint Nicholas, ho ho ho, saving poor girls from prostitution. Why don't we have a holiday for that? From Gentile da Fabriano's Quaratesi altarpiece 1425.