Someone should do a study of sleepy dictators in history
Just look at that paint! Johann Liss, Judith in the Tent of Holofernes, circa 1624-25, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Gerrit Dou, Dog at Rest, 1650, Oil on panel 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I just saw "El Vampiro Negro," a 1953 Argentinian remake of Fritz Lang's "M." So brilliantly shot...and Olga Zubarry 😍
Anonymous Caravaggesque painter, Basket of Squashes (Private collection)
“Was ist Aura?” (What is Aura?), Walter Benjamin’s notes for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction on San Pellegrino stationary, San Remo, c. 1935. (Walter Benjamin Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
Diego Velázquez, c. 1640, Oil on canvas, 95 x 70 cm (Wallace Collection, London)
"Gentlemen, we are closer than ever to closing the donut hole gap."
Barthel Beham, Portrait of a man, portrayed making tally marks in chalk with a glass of wine and a sword. 1529 marked on countertop on the left. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
It's National Doughnut Day! Still Life with Sweets and Pottery, oil on canvas by Spanish painter Juan van der Hamen y León, 1627, and detail:
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Charles Louis Richter
Peter Huestis
National Donut Day is a great excuse to visit the Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, online at the National Museum of American History www.si.edu/object/archi...
