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Sep

In Search of Lost Time and Dinner

Dear humans, have you ever seen a Cat in search of lost time and dinner, flying over your head when you prepare food in your kitchen? If not, just raise your head and you’ll see the truth! So did great Italian painter Andrea Mantegna. Then he depicted the flying cat at his...

Jun

Musee d’Orsay, Paul Cezanne

A new Cezanne painting discovered: “The Cat Card Players”!

Everybody heard of “The Card Players”, a series of oil paintings by the famous French artist Paul Cézanne, five paintings in the series were known up to this moment on. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. The most famous are 3 two person...

Apr

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

My Fair Cat Lady

How to create a perfect cat lady? A human that would deliver your tasty food in time and without any diet, that will comb you, give you a nice belly rub, and serve a perfect bed whenever you would like to have a noble cat nap? A human that would make thousands of your photos, and...

Mar

National Gallery of Denmark, Pieter Aertsen

Fat Kitchen

Kitchen dramas were important even in the 16th century, and it was Pieter Aertsen who profoundly investigated the impact of food on human history’s most basic moments. Here we can see the profound reflection on how cats, being carnivores, can yet live with vegetarian humans....

Mar

Philippe de Champaigne, Louvre

A Ginger Cat and a Red Hat

Do you know that Cardinal Richelieu was a devoted cat-lover? In 1642 he had fourteen felines! They were the only true affection of this pragmatic politician, that is why so much is known about his cats, not only their names. There was Richelieu’ favourite Soumise (mea...

Mar

Alte Pinakothek Munich, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Dolce far niente

Every cat is a top professional in laziness, and We, the best cat in the world, are champion of it. After all this work on improving famous paintings by cats We really need a good rest, of course after a good and tasty dinner. Once, while We were enjoying our postprandial time,...

Mar

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Walters Art Museum

Sappho and the Fat Cat

Today We decided to reveal the truth under the painting “Sappho and Alcaeus”. Actually, the painting is “Sappho and the Fat Cat”: Really, one cannot find historical truth at the commonly known version of the masterpiece to be seen at the Walters Art...

Mar

Uffizi Gallery, Караваджо

Wine vs Catnip

Today We reveal the truth behind the famous masterpiece: the painting “Bacchus” by Caravaggio. If you are a human of some cat, you may notice that your master is not very happy if you occasionally drink a glass of good (in your opinion) wine. We, cats, find alcohol shocking in...

Feb

Emanuel Leutze, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Unexpected Journey

This happened once upon a time in winter; in one really cold winter, may be almost as cold and snowy as this year winter in New England and Canada. George Washington crossed Delaware River with his army, and the great master Emanuel Leutze depicted it. Here is the true version of...

Jan

Jaques-Lois David

Don’t shoot the cartoonist!

Don’t shoot the cartoonist! If you do not like his drawings, just don’t buy his magazine. If you think he is very wrong, you even can sue him. But don’t shoot the cartoonist! Jean-Paul Marat, assasinated in 1793, was also the radical journalist. Two centuries...

Dec

Jacob Jordaens

It’s party time for cats and humans!

Yes, now it’s party time for cats and humans, and even for dogs, where everybody will be happy at their places! Now you better go and bring a lot of tastiest treaties for your cat, and put your cat at the head of the party table, and the cat will make your and everybody...

Dec

Katsushika Hokusai, Library of Congress, Rijksmuseum

Catzilla attacks!

Meanwhile in Japan: Catzilla attacks! It was seen near the Mount Fuji at the masterpiece by Hokusai: If you compare the masterpiece restored by Us to its commonly known version to be seen as prints at the Library of Congress and at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, you will notice that...