Friday, June 7, 2019

Antwerp, Belgium

How do you honor your city's famous sons and daughters? Erect statues that fossilize them for all time. Here is the Antwerp-born David Teniers, 16th century artist extraordinaire. He looks far too prosperous to be an artist, but he was painting when the wealth of the world flowed into Flemish and Dutch ports. [2015]

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