It all looks so delectable but stop! This is art about death, 1595. Clearly a big market for this subject, tapped into by Georg Flegel & Gillis Coignet, whose day is today.
Today's artist without a known birthday, Gillis Coignet of Antwerp. Painter of history scenes and the occasional portrait. Here, Annunciation from 1584.
This evocative 1844 painting by the French neoclassical painter Jules Coignet applies a soft nostalgic luminosity that bathes the Doric columns of Paestum's Temple of Hera II (ca. 460 BC) in Magna Graecia.