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❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️Ianus or Ianuarius, 1698
Jacobus Harrewyn 1660-1727
January portrays the Roman god Janus seated on a cloud, holding a large key & mirror w/# 365; the zodiacal sign of Aquarius over the shoulder.

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2020-01-07

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts Jean Béraud, 1849-1935.
Famous for his many scenes of Parisian daily life during the Belle Époque, he received the Legion of Honor in 1894.

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2019-12-30

🎨🖌✒️📖🕰 Giovanni Paolo Panini specialized in architectural views & painted several pictures showing the interior of St Peter's in Rome.

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2019-10-24

🎨🖌✒️ Andrea Mantegna's 'The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome' is one of four pictures commissioned in 1505 by Francesco Cornaro.

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2019-10-23

🎨🖌✒️📖🕰Francesco Faraone Aquila (It, 1676–1740) | Equestrian Statue of Constantine the Great | 1690–1740.

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2019-10-01

It is not surprising that the muguet symbolizes the return of happiness, for it is the sweetest and most charming flower, which blooms at the beginning of the sweetest month.

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2019-05-07

Octopus: a very small exhibit// 1. Mosaic, Isthmia, Greece 2. BANC MS UCB 085 (14th c) 3.Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, watercolor (16th c) 4. Ito Jakuchu (Japan, 18thc) 🎨 🖌️ ✏️ 🖊️

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2019-05-03

Passer Ammodendri, Severtzow. Turkestan Sparrow, from The birds of Asia, by John Gould London, 1804 🎨 At my favorite library, the !

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2019-04-25