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Francisco Goya

A cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an octopus

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 -1861)

“Diving Girl Attacked by an Octopus” - Katsushika Hokusai - 1882

Portrait of Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (1471-1505), possibly by Dosso Dossi (c.1490 -1542)

The court of Ercole d’Este was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. The duke was a prolific builder, and the leader in the revival of classical theater, an enthusiastic patron of musicians, and a creator of magnificent court spectacles. Very little survives to testify to Ercole’s achievements, largely because of a devastating earthquake in 1570, but extensive archival evidence has been used to reestablish the duke’s achievements and the extent to which he was personally involved in his patronage.

Citrus by Bartolomeo Bimbi
Italian baroque painter, Florentine school (b. 1648, Settignano, d. 1730, Firenze)

Oil on canvas - Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano

Knorr by Elvis Smith, via Joanie Bernstein, Art Rep.

George Bates - source Marlena Agency Affordable Art

Edward del Rosario - source: Escape Into Life

The Shrimp Girl, William Hogarth (c1745)

Subject: An unknown street-seller. This imitates a genre of popular print sold widely in 18th-century Europe, featuring various trades, street-criers and hawkers. Hogarth takes this formulaic art and gives it a face. We don’t doubt this is a real Londoner, a girl glimpsed by the artist and never forgotten. He kept this painting in his own collection until his death.

Jonathan Jones

Inconsistency, 1617
by Abraham Janssens, Flemish painter 1575 - 1632

Original Chinese brush painting signed in Japanese katakana by Savannah Mitchell

Two zucchini grow on a flowing vine. A trace of their yellow squash blossoms cling to their tips as new blossoms get ready to open.

Traditional Chinese brush painting by Ren Adams on white xuan paper.