Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents is the collective name for two
late-15th-century portrait panels by the German painter Albrecht Dürer.
They show his parents, Barbara Holper and Albrecht Dürer the Elder,
when she was around 39 and he was 63, and are among four paintings or
drawings Dürer made of the couple. The portraits are unflinching
records of the physical and emotional effects of ageing, which Dürer
may have intended either to display his skill to his parents or as
keepsakes while he travelled as a journeyman painter. His father's panel
is considered the superior work and has been described as one of
Dürer's most exact and honest portraits. The Dürer family was close,
and his later writings show the love and respect he felt toward his
parents. The panels, separated since at least 1628, were reunited in the
Germanisches Nationalmuseum's 2012 exhibition "The Early Dürer".
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_Diptych_of_D%C3%BCrer%27s_Parents>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
The Third Anglo-Afghan War ended with the United Kingdom
signing a treaty recognising the independence of the Emirate of
Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War>
1969:
At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took
the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road>
2009:
Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private
airplane collided over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in
Hoboken, New Jersey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Hudson_River_mid-air_collision>
2014:
The World Health Organization declared the Western African
Ebola virus epidemic, which began in December 2013, a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sidle:
1. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to)
move sideways.
2. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive
sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy,
furtive, or unobtrusive manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sidle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I lift my heart as spring lifts up A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup Altho' it holds but pain. For I shall
learn from flower and leaf That color every drop they hold, To change
the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
--Sara Teasdale
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sara_Teasdale>