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Collateral damage. Bystanders killed by spikes from St Catherine's wheel as it is destroyed @ncartmuseum
Christmas, a time for treats - Mantilla @YaleArtGallery, Unknown Spanish Artist @mfaboston
Surprisingly exotic - the landscape of St John the Evangelist by Hans Burgkmair @Pinakotheken
Not known for mythological subjects, Lépicié produced at least two - strikingly different - versions of Narcissus
Have always rather liked this Perseus turning the Followers of Phineus into Stone @NationalGallery. Frustrating that no name can be attached to it for certain.
Well that trumps the usual lap dog in a portrait. Carl Hagenbeck by Corinth (1918) @KunsthalleHH
The appreciation of oil sketches is not a recent development. These two by #Bidauld were acquired by the French state at his studio sale in 1847.
Top Hat! In a St John Preaching of c.1530 attributed to Jan Swart van Groningen @Pinakotheken.
Dachshunds seem to omnipresent in UK advertising at the moment, so here's the delightful #Balla of 1912 @AlbrightKnox. Sadly, it came in for some criticism for being, basically, meretricious.