🧵 What some of these paintings are about.
THE DREAMER and THE DREAMLESS, the Sleeping Knights: two Pepes asleep in red and green armor, the colors of a price chart. The red knight slumps like a fa...
MASTER CUTS OUT THE STONE (after Hemessen). Jan Sanders van Hemessen's 1550 painting shows a quack surgeon cutting the "stone of madness" out of a patient's head. In Nardo's version a smug Pepe holds the knife.
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