[These images are admiringly reposted from the blog Fat Cat Art. Click the caption below each feline-faced portrait to see more about the original artwork, where it’s located, and about the artist who created it way back when.]
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks? Magic. Straight up magic.
A kitty cuddle explains the Mona Lisa’s warm fuzzy smile:
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at Musée du Louvre
I now wish for a cat who can make the same face as me.
Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci at Czartoryski Museum
It makes me want to take a cat nap.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí at MOMA
And to make a kitty pose like the goddess she is…
Olympia by Édouard Manet at Musée d'Orsay
And it makes me want to take a cat to the beach, because I’ve never seen a feline by the seashore.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli at Uffizi Gallery
[Enjoy more like this from FatCatArt]
By: Carolyn
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