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Aug

Fat Boy and Fat Cat

We, Zarathustra the Cat, are so kind to say Our meow in support of campaign for natural beauty and against models anorexia. If you are not suffering from anorexia, like We don’t suffer from it, did anybody mock at you because of your weight in your childhood ? May be...

Jun

Ivan Argunov

An Unknown Woman and a Well Known Cat

Every elegant beauty in the history of art would love to be portrayed with Us, Zarathustra the Cat, but one Russian lady made her dream come true. Evidently this very fashionably clothed young woman loved her cat so much that she embroidered the vet collar of her feline friend in...

Mar

Uffizi Gallery, Piero della Francesca

Man and Cat Portrait: the Cat and Duke of Urbino

Man and cat portrait, that is a popular tendency in Internet photos, especially on Tumblr. Do you know that this theme existed much earlier in the time of the Renaissance? Here We, Zarathustra the Cat, reveal hidden for centuries second Diptych of Urbino: Portraits of the Duke of...

Dec

Boris Kustodiev, Russian Museum

A Very Concrete Cat

After wondering in the labirytnth of abstractions We turned into the very concrete Cat again: The painting truely depictes the right position of cats and men at the table. Ignoramuses can be satysfied by the version

Jul

Dali

Leda and the Cat

Once upon a time in anscient Greece, one Leda couldn’t resist the Swan. Nowadays at the era of atomic energy and internet, no one Leda can resist the Cat: Just now Leda became a bomb and the Kitteh also. You artists, don’t forget:

May

National London Gallery, Jan van Eyck

The Man and the Cat

It was one of the most weird experience of Our sitting for the great artists. One day at 1834, in the city of Brugge, the great master Jan van Eyck invited Us to be his Mews. We should sit for him. We found Ourselves in the company of the strangly familiar stranger: This man was...

Mar

Leonardo da Vinci

Cats and Glamour

They say that cats are not not glamorous beings, and fashion addicted young ladies prefer handbag dogs and other accessory beings as ermines. But this is not true! Look at the original version of the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, who was the most glamorous lady of that time: At...

Feb

Jaques-Lois David, Louvre, Ingres

Two pusses with two odalisques

We graciousely found a couple of charming ladies in the Palace of Louvre and kindly sitted with them for the great French artists:

Jan

Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre

The secret of Mona Lisa’s smile revealed!

Mona Lisa’s smile is a mystery no more. She smiled because We were there. Let you have on your knees 10 kilos of the immeasurable grandeur and have no smile. Afterward, Leonardo reluctantly painted out Our image. He was afraid of the reaction of the art critics and...