Along the River During the Qingming Festival
1120 · Palace Museum, Beijing
More than eight hundred figures crowd five meters of scroll, and Chinese painters have been copying and forging it for nine hundred years.
★ 9.2
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Old Woman Frying Eggs
1618 · National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Eggs are visibly cooking in the pan as you watch. Velázquez painted this in Seville when he was barely nineteen years old.
★ 6.9