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Saint Nicholas zooming in to save a ship in distress. From Gentile da Fabriano's Quaratesi Altarpiece, 1425.
2/2 Christ healing the blind. Hallelujah! Now they can see his extraordinary landscape! But why were they living in a cave outside the city, did they also have leprosy? Philippe de Champaigne needs to explain this.
4/4 Earlier design for Vertumnus & Pomona. A bit too extreme for the Medici, but wouldn't it have made a fantastic painting? Pontormo could have carried it off! Today is his day.
2/2 Mother and child in green. Drypoint & aquatint, 1894, by the extraordinary Mary Cassatt of Pennsylvania & Paris, whose day was today.
3/3 Summertime in 1894. Life was good. Ducks got fed. Nobody drowned. By Mary Cassatt, born OTD in 1844.
4/4 Left wing of a blue roller, 1500. Amazing, mesmerizing study, filled with precise observation. By the great Albrecht Dürer, born OTD 1471.
3/3 Take-off on Jacob Jordaens's cattle study by Vincent van Gogh, 1890. He puts the cows in a cheerful pasture with flowers. Nice!
2/2 Not a lot of reality here: Abundance in the kitchen (w/ dog attempting to consume a dead deer). A tapestry design by my colleague Jacob Jordaens, born OTD 1593.