2/2 Hals vs. Codde in Reinier Reael's company. Both parties seem to have been satisfied with the results!

2/2 More music with Pieter Codde and friends, celebrating his birthday.

2/2 Henri IV receives the Spanish ambassador. Imagined with high degree of romantic fantasy by Ingres, 1817. Love Raphael on the living room wall.

2/2 Teaser: whose watch?

2/2 Another fine crab lunch with, of course, the trademark peeled lemon. Because it’s by Willem Claesz Heda, on his birthday.

2/2 Wonderful mixtures of the ordinary and the extraordinary on tables of Willem Claesz. Heda of Haarlem.

2/2 Is it highway robbery? Cold winter's day, light is thin, and rather ominous scene threatens in this work by David Teniers the Elder, father of David the Younger whose day is today.

2/2 Card game (human) in a tavern. Dog wonders sadly when somebody will remember to feed him. By David Teniers.

2/2 There's been a kermis in the village and many peasants are variously dancing, drunk & possibly dead. But the landscape is still beautiful! Because it's by Hans Bol.

2/2 Hofvijver in The Hague hosting a lively game of goose-torture. Don't let anybody fool you about the gentility of 16th-century elites! By Hans Bol.

Australia has the 2nd highest number of holocaust survivors because we welcomed them & promised safety, peace, and welcome. It's unconscionable to fail to live up to that promise.
And we don't have to qualify it with "what about supporting some other group", we can just live up to our actual values.