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The well-stocked kitchen, Joachim Bueckelaer, 1566 (rijksmuseum)
The main event of the painting is not the lavish display of vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry and dishes but the visit of Jesus to Mary and Martha, discreetly depicted in the background.
"The Habits of the Grand Signor's Court", Ottoman, c. 1620. A woman smoking tobacco (British Museum)
3 June 1654 ns: d. Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel, 1585-1654 in Amsterdam #otd She was a contributor to this 1655 receipt book (Alte Pinakothek/U Toronto/eebo)
Red Catchfly [Silene dioica] with a dragonfly,
Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
2 June: feast St. Elmo (Erasmus), 4thC, note his entrails wrapped around a windlass #otd (BM)
The Fruit Vendors,
by Jerónimo Jacinto Espinosa,
c. 1650. (Museo Nacional del Prado)
A poor student is handing over some coins to a fruit-seller as he makes a knot in the handkerchief, clinched in his teeth, to put away the change.