Hey mom,
I know that you read these descriptions even if nobody else does ;p Today was weird and a bit scary, but not as weird as this painting we had to talk about today. Jacopo del Sellaio's St John the Baptist. Taken piecemeal there are some really cool things about it. I absolutely love the background skyline (it is one of the earliest painted views of Florence!), but the rest of the piece looks like it was a puzzle done by a dozen hands some more talented than others. Apparently subcontracting was always a thing? Like you would be hired to do a portrait but you'd just do the main dude. Then you could hire a guy to do the sky and another to do the crappy mushrooms to fill in space, apparently they call those trees but our cousin sparrow could do those better and she's still finger painting. At least the birds are cute even if it looks like poor John is just there because his mom made him take a school photo.
mein ap say muhabat karti hoon
Willow
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Thank you to for the cover art Grube Messel - Skeleton of a fossile bat by Picturepest and Vladimír Hirsch for the music Nostalgie IV
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