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tfw you kinda forgot the editors wanted a 7k-word essay and you instead wrote a 9k-word one
Giorgio Vasari, Apelles and the Cobbler (Florence, Casa Vasari, c. 1573). Apelles hides behind one of his paintings while a cobbler points to it, noting that Apelles painted a pair of shoes wrong.
Here's another Adoration, this time by Palma il Vecchio (1526), with a Black king followed by a retinue of servants: https://t.co/JntbMxdp44 5/
a portrait by Titian depicting a very good boy with Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
baking bread, eating bread in Renaissance Italy
Italian translation of the Tacuinum Sanitatis; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 5264 Han (Lodi, Northern Italy, c. 1470) https://t.co/q2whGvAe7M
a demon wearing glasses to read a legal document, complete with demonic seal
Jacobus de Teramo, "Litigatio Christi cum Belial"; @bsb_muenchen MS Cgm 48, fol. 132r (Germany, 1461)
Antonello da Messina painted some of the best smirking faces of the fifteenth century.
Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Young Man (Sicily, c. 1470): New York, @metmuseum (left); Portrait of an Unknown Sailor (Sicily, c. 1465), Cefalù, @mandralisca (right) #RenTwitter
Today's #GoogleDoodle is dedicated to Christine de Pizan, the first known laywoman in European history who made a career as a professional writer.
Happy birthday, Christine! Here's to you and your efforts to advocate for women 💙 https://t.co/UfFDPm20jj