Cat & dog about to do battle over the entrails. Second cat has had its share & is hiding out behind jug. Pantry drama from Alejandro de Loarte, whose day is today.
Couple at right have arrived at a party where all their friends are acting out an allegory of marital fidelity. They were hoping for some dancing! By Jan Miense Molenaer, whose day is today.
Bianca degli Utili Maselli surrounded by her five sons, one daughter, slightly dazed dog, & bird. Fantastic study in family resemblance & textile complementarity by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna.
‘The day of the sun is like a day of a king.
It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening’.
Wallace Stevens, Letters
Pierre Bonnard
@susanorlean “The Thick of It” also by Jesse Armstrong (and Armando Iannucci). See the seeds of “Succession” and “Veep”
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This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day.
They were also encouraged to bring their dogs to work to keep them company and also act as mini heaters by having them rest on their owners’ legs.
They were also called ventres jaunes (“yellow bellies” in English) because of the yellow dust that would be released from the grinding wheel.
@MerriamWebster I thought bygones were mythological creatures like cyclopses.
So to me the expression “Let bygones be bygones,” was equivalent to “Let sleeping dogs lie.”
@MerriamWebster I thought bygones were mythological creatures like cyclopses.
So to me the expression “Let bygones be bygones,” was equivalent to “Let sleeping dogs lie.”