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Ferdinand van Kessel (attributed), The Dance of the Rats, ca. 1690 (X)

#art #painting #baroque period #flemish art

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Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Cupid on a dolphin, c. 1636-38

(Most terrifying depiction of a dolphin award)

#art #painting #baroque #classicism

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Paul de Vos, Cats Fighting in the Larder, c. 1630-40

Favorite detail:

#art #cats

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Jan van Kessel the Elder - The Four Parts of the World. Africa, 1660 (X)

Attribution of work to Jan van Kessel the Elder has been difficult due to confusion with other artists with a similar name all active around the same time. In addition to his son Jan, there was another Antwerp painter with the name Jan van Kessel (referred to as 'the other' Jan van Kessel) who painted still lifes, while in Amsterdam there was a Jan van Kessel known as a landscape painter (wikipedia)

#art #painting #oil painting #i love the thing that is probably supposed to be a hippo #and the weird serpents #art history

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Giuseppe Recco - Still Life with Fish and Turtle, ca. 1680 (X)

#art #painting #oil painting #still life #sea turtle #17th century #baroque #the jelly squids!