Of cloned sheep and genre painting

June 13, 2008

Of cloned sheep and genre painting

Pieter Aertsen. Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt. Oil on wood panel.
1551. 123.3 x 150 cm (48.5 x 59″). University Art Collections, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Oh, I won’t even try to abstract the Pruned post from which Alexander Trevi links to the image above. Just go and read it.

Pruned is among my favorite blogs. And I don’t even know the guy.

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