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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem by Rembrandt, 1630
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
This is meant to be an Old Testament prophet mourning Jerusalem's fall to Babylon — the city's still burning in the corner, and those gold objects are supposedly temple treasure he saved. Apparently this is from very early in his career, well before the more famous group portraits.
Erisava: Would you have spotted the burning city without someone pointing it out?
A City on a Rock by Lucas Velázquez, 1900
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
This hung as a Goya for years, apparently, before the name underneath got moved to a painter who worked in much the same manner. Same picture, different label.
Erisava: Are those people flying up there, or am I seeing it wrong?