Zarathustra the Cat and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Tower of Babel, diptych, part 2"
Z asks for his fee for posing 😻🍤
😻 This porcelain cat was made in the 1700s in China for export to Europe (where it received its glowing eyes and gilded stool), and was once owned by Madame de Pompadour—the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751.
From Getty Museum collection
🖼This cat trying to steal a fish with all four paws was painted in XVII on a wooden panel of Mathieu Mieg's house in Mulhouse, France. Now it is in Musée Historique de Mulhouse. Evidently, the furry thief escaped before the artist could capture the cat properly, oops😹
Friends, who got our 2025 calendar, know that Hieronymus Bosch's "The Ship of April Fools" is the painting of the month! 🖼
😻 Happy April, friends!🌷 And Happy April Fools Day 😹
The Fat Cat Art 2025 Calendar 👉 https://shop.fatcatart.com/pr…/fatcatart-wall-calendar-2025/
Today is International Hug a Medievalist Day 🥰🧑🎓
So, which medieval cat are you today?🤔😹
1️⃣. A Judicial Duel Between Gillion’s Son Gerard and the Emir Lucion, 1464, Lieven van Lathem, illuminator and David Aubert, scribe. Getty Museum
2️⃣. Cats; A Mouse, about 1250–1260, English. Getty Museum...
3️⃣. A Hunter and Dogs Attacking a Treed Wild Cat, about 1430–1440, French. Getty Museum
4️⃣. Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, about 1410, French. Getty Museum
5️⃣. An Elderly Man in Prayer in a Boat; A Cat in a Tree under which is a Fox, third quarter of 15th century, German. Getty Museum
6️⃣. An Elderly Man Speaking to a Younger Man; A Cat with a Bishop’s Crosier and Miter Sitting on a Circular Building, third quarter of 15th century, German. Getty Museum
7️⃣. January Calendar Page; Feasting and Warming; Aquarius, about 1510–1520, Master of James IV of Scotland. Getty Museum
8️⃣. Cats; A Mouse, about 1250–1260, English. Getty Museum
9️⃣. Decorated Text Page, 1296, Elijah ben Meshallum, scribe, Elijah ben Jehiel, scribe. Getty Museum