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Eyeway to Shell

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Previously pre-posted:

• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…

Ruff Stuff

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Zelfportret (1601) by Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (pron. roughly OO-tuh-vaal), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits

Previously pre-posted:

• She-Shell — Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (1611) by Wtewael

Ju Dunnit

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Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (c. 1612), Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)

Interesting facts in-terms-of-issues-around this painting, known as Judith with the Head of Holofernes in English: according to Allori’s first biographer Filippo Baldinucci, the severed head is a self-portrait of Allori, the decapitatrix is an ex-girlfriend, Maria di Giovanni Mazzafirri, and the old servant is her mother (from A Face to the World, Laura Cumming, 2009).