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John the Baptist preaches, Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1644
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Eve with Cain and Abel
1520s
Bachiacca or Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi
(Met Museum)
Cain Killing Abel
Pietro Novelli, 1603–1647)
(National Galleries of Scotland)
How it started. How it went.
In case the bare text of the parable of Dives & Lazarus [Luke 16:19–31] isn't enough, here's some visualization:
Dives Carried Away by Devils.
Gouache after H. Aldegrever's engraving. Flemish, c.1590.
(V&A Museum, London)
Yellow and crimson tulip, blue convolvulus and crimson gladiolus, tied with orange ribbon.
By Alexander Marshall, done between 1639-1682
(British Museum)
Couple attacking each other, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1652
(Rijksmuseum)
Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673.
(Met Museum)
These depictions of reading as a communal exercise are so useful for thinking with.
Wenceslaus Hollar
Autumn
1641
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)