There won’t be a quiz afterwards, right? Like “How many objects are in Wawa’s Hoogstraten painting? You have 3 seconds to name them all, or you go to the UR.”

While you wait, chat, here are some facts about Hoogstraten and Wawa’s painting she bought with the girls (you can see the painting on Wawa’s old tweet). This comes from TheMet website:

Van Hoogstraten specialized in a “whatever you please” style, a seemingly random assortment of objects containing verbal and visual witticisms about art, artists, patrons, and politics.

This required incredible detail to the textures and scale of the items depicted. The frame proclaims the entirety to be a painting, but the frame itself is an illusion.

Having outwitted the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III with one of his visual deceptions, Van Hoogstraten received the imperial gold medallion and chain, which is displayed in Wawa’s painting.

The note from an admirer (also shown in Wawa’s painting) boasts of this feat and compares him to Zeuxis, the ancient Greek painter skilled at painted illusion. Hope you learned something!

素敵なオーストリア旅行の思い出　キアラちゃんたくさん計画立てて楽しませてくれて、ありがとう！！　　また3人で旅行行けますように