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British School 17th century, Cholmondeley Cat Ladies

Feb

Benefits of cat adoption

Do you know that cat adoption was popular not only nowadays? Here We present a pleasant example of cat ladies in early 17th century Britain According to an inscription in gold letters in the bottom left of the painting, the portrait shows “Two Ladies of the Cholmondeley...

Feb

Hugo van der Goes, Kunsthistorisches Museum

A winner of a competition for a cat-model in FatCatArt World Spay Day poster

Dear friends, today We are happy to announce a winner of our breathtaking competition, opened 16 February by FatCatArt and Tuxedo Party of Canada Cat Welfare Society : a WORLD COMPETITION to choose The Best Cat for the SPAY DAY poster! Damien the Cat, from Tucson , Arizona, USA,...

Feb

El Greco, Prado Museum

I swear by my cat!

Why do people say a “crazy cat lady?” and never say a “crazy cat gentleman”?Men like cats no less than women do, as we know by Our website visitor statistics and by Our previous research. The genius El Greco painted one of these devoted male cat lovers, hugging his cat...

Feb

Andrea Mantegna, Louvre

Gentlemen prefer cats

Did you ever meet crazy cat guys? Renaissance genius Andrea Mantegna met a company of them and depicted it in his famous painting “Parnassus” The mount Parnassus was rather a popular location for Renaissance paintings. Andrea Mantegna also decided to present his...

Feb

mosaics

The Battle Cat

We, Zarathustra the Cat, were immensely kind to play the role of Bucefal sitting for Roman mosaicists at the House of the Faun in Pompeii. The mosaic shows Alexander the Great fighting in the battle of Issus : Not only popular bloggers, but even Roman mosaicists knew: trust your...

The Bayeux Tapestry, true 23rd scene, 1070 AD

Jan

tapestry, the Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry – the true reason of the Norman conquest of England revealed!

There is a common belief that Middle Ages were not favourable to cats because they were supposed to be friends of the devil. It is not true! Cats were also worshiped during Middle Ages, but in an esoteric way. Medieval people loved secrets, you know. Here We are going to reveal...

Jan

William Blake

How was the Universe created?

William Blake answers this important question: One should have a really good template and then measure it carefully: Just compare Our true version, featuring the Cat as the source of all things, with the commonly known one, to be found in William Blake’s work “Europe a...

Jan

Jan Vermeer, Mauritshuis

Girl with a Pearl Earring and a Ginger Cat

The very first discovery of this just begun year is the true version of Vermeer’s masterpiece: It’s commonly known version is to be found at the Mauritshuis museum collection But one should shoot a film about the reason why the painting is without the cat there! Happy...

Dec

Vatican Museum

Unusual northern lights observed at the sky!

Unusual northern lights observed everywhere: cats and angels playing in the sky! This rare phenomenon of nature became a subject of a fresco at the ceiling of the Vatican museum: Cats playing with the roll (guess what kind of) paper in a company of winged children, one of...

Dec

John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madame X and Monsieur Z

Do you know that not only old ladies posed with Us, Zarathustra the Cat, for the great American painters? The most stylish of ladies, M-me Virginie Gautreau, also admired our beauty and chose Us as a companion for her portrait. Here is John Singer Sargent’s masterpiece,...

Nov

Edgar Degas, Musee d’Orsay

Pas de chat – dance like a fat cat!

Do you know why classical ballet glossary contains a lot of names of jumps with the word «cat» («chat» in French): pas de chat, enter-chat? That is because We used to be a famous ballet teacher in France 19th century, and great Edgar Degas painted Us in his magnificent «The...

Oct

Henry Fuseli

Halloween Cat

In some households, where large cats, loving to sleep on their humans, live, these humans have a happy chance to celebrate Halloween every night Henry Fuseli, the great Swiss and British artist, was so lucky to try Our night magic on himself. Then he created this masterpiece:...