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2/2 Group of masked revelers & a surprised gardener. Hope you're having a festive evening too! Drawing by Sebastian Vrancx, whose day was today.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
2/2 Group of masked revelers & a surprised gardener. Hope you're having a festive evening too! Drawing by Sebastian Vrancx, whose day was today.
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2/2 A pair of amazing paintings. How they look back. Love to think about them both.
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
2/2 A pair of amazing paintings. How they look back. Love to think about them both.
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Manet: a modern artist who respected the Old Masters. Here, he has dressed himself up as me, in a me-like landscape. This goes pretty far, Edouard! Happy birthday, though.
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Manet: a modern artist who respected the Old Masters. Here, he has dressed himself up as me, in a me-like landscape. This goes pretty far, Edouard! Happy birthday, though.
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2/2 Look who's on the wall behind Emile Zola! Think I know her from somewhere.
January 24, 2026 at 12:27 AM
2/2 Look who's on the wall behind Emile Zola! Think I know her from somewhere.
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Don't be disoriented this evening by mirrors in the Bar at the Folies Bergere! And do try to enjoy yourself, unlike the barmaid. By Edouard Manet, whose day is today.
January 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Don't be disoriented this evening by mirrors in the Bar at the Folies Bergere! And do try to enjoy yourself, unlike the barmaid. By Edouard Manet, whose day is today.
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2/2 Clear, bright, beautiful: harbor at Boulogne by moonlight. As painted in 1859 by Edouard Manet. Good night!
January 24, 2026 at 3:28 AM
2/2 Clear, bright, beautiful: harbor at Boulogne by moonlight. As painted in 1859 by Edouard Manet. Good night!
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Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Pieter Boel, of Antwerp & Paris. Painted animals, dead & alive. Here, truly stunning study of flamingos (alive).
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Pieter Boel, of Antwerp & Paris. Painted animals, dead & alive. Here, truly stunning study of flamingos (alive).
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2/2 Three live animals -- monkey, parrot, dog -- lurk amidst the luxuriant carnage. Dog seems understandably skeptical about the whole thing. By Pieter Boel of Antwerp, whose day is today.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
2/2 Three live animals -- monkey, parrot, dog -- lurk amidst the luxuriant carnage. Dog seems understandably skeptical about the whole thing. By Pieter Boel of Antwerp, whose day is today.
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2/2 Fashions of the French in 1605 included rather silly male headgear. As chronicled by Sebastiaen Vrancx of Antwerp.
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 AM
2/2 Fashions of the French in 1605 included rather silly male headgear. As chronicled by Sebastiaen Vrancx of Antwerp.
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Born on this day 1573, in Antwerp, the witty painter & poet Sebastian Vrancx. Here portrayed by Anthony van Dyck.
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Born on this day 1573, in Antwerp, the witty painter & poet Sebastian Vrancx. Here portrayed by Anthony van Dyck.
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2/2 Beer tents on the Schelde on a frigid winter's day. Immortalized by Sebastiaen Vrancx.
January 22, 2026 at 3:14 PM
2/2 Beer tents on the Schelde on a frigid winter's day. Immortalized by Sebastiaen Vrancx.
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Pleasure of the renaissance elites: elegant garden with trick fountain -- suddenly sprays your guests from beneath the pavement. LOL hilarity from Sebastian Vrancx, #BTD 1573.
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Pleasure of the renaissance elites: elegant garden with trick fountain -- suddenly sprays your guests from beneath the pavement. LOL hilarity from Sebastian Vrancx, #BTD 1573.
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Battle of Lekkerbeetje and Breaute, 1600: a singularly pointless group duel between some Spanish and Dutch/French soldiers in which lots of people were killed over a rhetorical insult. Seriously. Painted by Sebastian Vrancx.
January 22, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Battle of Lekkerbeetje and Breaute, 1600: a singularly pointless group duel between some Spanish and Dutch/French soldiers in which lots of people were killed over a rhetorical insult. Seriously. Painted by Sebastian Vrancx.
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2/2 The cat has just killed his bird. Alas! Drama at a window, 1678, by Adriaen van der Werff, who was born on this day in 1659.
January 21, 2026 at 9:21 PM
2/2 The cat has just killed his bird. Alas! Drama at a window, 1678, by Adriaen van der Werff, who was born on this day in 1659.
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2/2 Adriaen van der Werff, hobby sculptor. Here, a little boxwood piece caricaturing a soldier.
January 22, 2026 at 1:16 AM
2/2 Adriaen van der Werff, hobby sculptor. Here, a little boxwood piece caricaturing a soldier.
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2/2 Adriaen van der Werff, looking a lot less serious in 1696. Definitely was a funny guy! And today is his birthday.
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
2/2 Adriaen van der Werff, looking a lot less serious in 1696. Definitely was a funny guy! And today is his birthday.
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Born on this day in 1659, in a village near Rotterdam, Adriaen van der Werff. Here by himself in 1699, by now a very successful artist, holding his own portrait of his wife and daughter.
January 21, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Born on this day in 1659, in a village near Rotterdam, Adriaen van der Werff. Here by himself in 1699, by now a very successful artist, holding his own portrait of his wife and daughter.
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2/2 The artist's daughter Maria at age twelve. No puppy, and heavily framed. She wanted it this way for Instagram! From Adriaen van der Werff.
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
2/2 The artist's daughter Maria at age twelve. No puppy, and heavily framed. She wanted it this way for Instagram! From Adriaen van der Werff.
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This tiny, tiny painting manages to contain an amazing amount of pain & grief: Man of Sorrows, 1490, by Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Today is his day.
January 20, 2026 at 10:50 PM
This tiny, tiny painting manages to contain an amazing amount of pain & grief: Man of Sorrows, 1490, by Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Today is his day.
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2/2 In my own version, only Daphne's fingertrips were sprouting slightly. But wait, is her foot putting down roots? Ouch!
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 PM
2/2 In my own version, only Daphne's fingertrips were sprouting slightly. But wait, is her foot putting down roots? Ouch!
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3/3 The embroiderer's brilliant artifice, remade by the painter's.
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
3/3 The embroiderer's brilliant artifice, remade by the painter's.
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2/2 She is also fantastically well-dressed and accessorized. Truth! From Marcus Gheeraerts, in his great Ditchley Portrait of Elizabeth.
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
2/2 She is also fantastically well-dressed and accessorized. Truth! From Marcus Gheeraerts, in his great Ditchley Portrait of Elizabeth.
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Mary Shelton Scudamore in 1601, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts. Distant cousin of Elizabeth I & member of her privy chamber. When she secretly married in 1573, Elizabeth attacked her & broke her finger!
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Mary Shelton Scudamore in 1601, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts. Distant cousin of Elizabeth I & member of her privy chamber. When she secretly married in 1573, Elizabeth attacked her & broke her finger!
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2/2 Lady Anne Pope had her portrait painted in 1596 when pregnant w/ her 4th child, so other 3 would remember her if she died in childbirth. Good news: she didn't! Painted by Marcus Gheeraerts, whose day is today.
January 19, 2026 at 7:55 PM
2/2 Lady Anne Pope had her portrait painted in 1596 when pregnant w/ her 4th child, so other 3 would remember her if she died in childbirth. Good news: she didn't! Painted by Marcus Gheeraerts, whose day is today.
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2/2 Gran reads to baby while cousin-apostles play fill-the-chalice-with-wine. Of course they would!
January 20, 2026 at 8:59 PM
2/2 Gran reads to baby while cousin-apostles play fill-the-chalice-with-wine. Of course they would!