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Distillation
from the series new inventions and discoveries, Philips Galle after Jan van der Straet, c. 1589 - c. 1593
This title is just too good not be shared:
"Psyche Served in Her Bath by Nymphs She Cannot See"
c. 1530-1540
(Art Institute Chicago)
Adam and Eve at Work
Domenico Fetti, c.1589–1624.
Eve is spinning, evoking the themes of clothing and of the loss of innocence. Adam is ploughing the land. Cain and Abel, their children, are also here.
(The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London)
#TheFall
15 June 1623: b. Cornelis de Witt who was second to Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the raid on the Medway in 1667. Cornelis was killed on the same day as his brother Johan 20 Aug 1672 (The 2nd image is of their lynched bodies, Rijksmuseum)
White Rose of York [Rosa alba] with a stag beetle,
Book of Flower Studies
c.1510–1515, Master of Claude de France
(Met Museum)
On his feast day #otd, Saint Anthony of Padua
Possibly after Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, 1618-1682
(Art Institute Chicago)