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".

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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