# myfavoritethings

This bowl of yellow peaches

[Manet, Still Life with Melon and Peaches, 1866, detail]

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2023-04-02

Today in Comics History: Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist whose name lives on as the creator of impossibly complicated cartoon inventions, was born on July 4, 1883. (A peripatetic talent, he also created scores of other cartoons.)

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2021-07-04

Beep beep. It's the birthday of Gillis van Coninxloo (1544-1607), the peripatetic Flemish landscape painter. A big influence on Bruegel, Coninxloo painted forests that were mysterious and dreamy. Were he around today, I reckon he'd be working for Disney or on Lord of the Rings

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2020-01-24