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Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
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Virgin Mary, chubby Baby J, Saints Rose & Catherine, and 2 charming angels. By Pietro Perugino, 1495. Today was his day.
December 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Virgin Mary, chubby Baby J, Saints Rose & Catherine, and 2 charming angels. By Pietro Perugino, 1495. Today was his day.
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Fano Anniunciation, 1489. Incredibly serene for such a momentous event, but that's Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fano Anniunciation, 1489. Incredibly serene for such a momentous event, but that's Perugino, whose day is today.
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2/2 More excellent deep space, but not so entertainingly populated, in this Marriage of the Virgin painted in 1503 by Perugino.
December 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
2/2 More excellent deep space, but not so entertainingly populated, in this Marriage of the Virgin painted in 1503 by Perugino.
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Christ giving the keys to Peter, 1482. Extra scenes in background, w/ people throwing stones at Christ (on right) are A+ use of deep space. Painted in the Sistine Chapel by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Christ giving the keys to Peter, 1482. Extra scenes in background, w/ people throwing stones at Christ (on right) are A+ use of deep space. Painted in the Sistine Chapel by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
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Adoration of the Shepherds by Ghirlandaio, 1485. Lots of reminders that we're in Roman empire here.
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Adoration of the Shepherds by Ghirlandaio, 1485. Lots of reminders that we're in Roman empire here.
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Today's event, year zero: holy family reaches city gates of Bethlehem (upper right). More excitement to come! From the Plenarium of Duke Otto the Mild, c. 1330.
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today's event, year zero: holy family reaches city gates of Bethlehem (upper right). More excitement to come! From the Plenarium of Duke Otto the Mild, c. 1330.
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The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Florence. Figures are amazing but landscape bothers me. So desolate and bleak. Trees blasted by some unknown force? Still, a masterpiece by Masaccio, born OTD 1401.
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Florence. Figures are amazing but landscape bothers me. So desolate and bleak. Trees blasted by some unknown force? Still, a masterpiece by Masaccio, born OTD 1401.
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2/2 Saint Peter raising the son of Theophilus, and then just being enthroned among his admirers. By Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence, 1426-7.
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
2/2 Saint Peter raising the son of Theophilus, and then just being enthroned among his admirers. By Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence, 1426-7.
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Archduke Leopold Wilhelm checking out his favorite masterpieces with some friends, and some dogs. They were always hanging out in his gallery! By David Teniers, born OTD 1610.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm checking out his favorite masterpieces with some friends, and some dogs. They were always hanging out in his gallery! By David Teniers, born OTD 1610.
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Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Salome receiving head of John the Baptist in front of Herod's exceedingly dramatic palace, 1620. By François de Nomé whose day has been today.
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Salome receiving head of John the Baptist in front of Herod's exceedingly dramatic palace, 1620. By François de Nomé whose day has been today.
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In an ominous ruined harbor, Saint Augustine of Hippo encounters a tiny child trying to empty the sea. Wonderfully chilling scene from 1623 by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In an ominous ruined harbor, Saint Augustine of Hippo encounters a tiny child trying to empty the sea. Wonderfully chilling scene from 1623 by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
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Born on this day in 1478, Baldassare Castiglione. Wrote the book on how to be a courtier. And Raphael painted it. And here they both are.
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Born on this day in 1478, Baldassare Castiglione. Wrote the book on how to be a courtier. And Raphael painted it. And here they both are.
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Pieta, occuring (you gradually realize) within a sarcophagus. Very odd mixture of physical-spiritual pain and kind of intense sensuality. Giovanni Bellini, what a painter. Today is his day.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pieta, occuring (you gradually realize) within a sarcophagus. Very odd mixture of physical-spiritual pain and kind of intense sensuality. Giovanni Bellini, what a painter. Today is his day.
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Gentle sorrow foreshadowing death (and a Pieta): Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna of the meadow, 1500. Today has been his day.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Gentle sorrow foreshadowing death (and a Pieta): Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna of the meadow, 1500. Today has been his day.
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2/2 Madonna, & child giving us a blessing, by Giovanni Bellini in 1510.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
2/2 Madonna, & child giving us a blessing, by Giovanni Bellini in 1510.
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Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!
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It's a cold winter's day but everybody has warm loaves of holiday bread! By my friends Jan Brueghel & Joos de Momper, 1612. Today is Joos's day.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It's a cold winter's day but everybody has warm loaves of holiday bread! By my friends Jan Brueghel & Joos de Momper, 1612. Today is Joos's day.
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2/2 Ceiling of the fantastic Farnese Gallery, later the French embassy in Rome. So lucky!
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
2/2 Ceiling of the fantastic Farnese Gallery, later the French embassy in Rome. So lucky!
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Farnese Gallery in all its glory, painted by Annibale Carracci whose day is today. The French used to rent this palace for one lira a year from the Italian govt. Pretty cool place for an embassy!
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Farnese Gallery in all its glory, painted by Annibale Carracci whose day is today. The French used to rent this palace for one lira a year from the Italian govt. Pretty cool place for an embassy!
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Tondal having a v. Boschian vision including a nose that blows money instead of snot. Super useful! For Jan Mandijn's Boschy day.
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tondal having a v. Boschian vision including a nose that blows money instead of snot. Super useful! For Jan Mandijn's Boschy day.
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Lively Temptation of Saint Anthony with A+ exploding church by Jan Mandijn of Antwerp, whose day was today.
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lively Temptation of Saint Anthony with A+ exploding church by Jan Mandijn of Antwerp, whose day was today.
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2/2 On the back of Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro portraits, the couple ride in chariots w/ their virtues in front of rather surreal landscape.
October 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
2/2 On the back of Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro portraits, the couple ride in chariots w/ their virtues in front of rather surreal landscape.