A Christmas CATrol

Today We, Zarathustra the Cat, reveal the true version of the left side of the famous triptych by Hans Memling, featuring angels playing music in the merry company of cats:

Hans Memling, Music-making Angels ang Singing Cats, c. 1483-1494

Five angels are playing ancient musical instruments: from left to right, a psaltery, a tromba marina, a lute, a trumpet, and a shawm

Cats give a needed vividness to this too prim and proper scene:

Hans Memling, Music-making Angels ang Singing Cats, Zarathustra the Cat

We are singing in tha fishy like in the microphone, and helping the angel in yellow to play the lute with Our noble hind leg

Hans Memling, Music-making Angels ang Singing Cats, Tyger Blake the Cat

Our disciple Tyger Blake sings out loudly, accompanying himself with the string of the psaltery of the angel on the angel on the left, and directs the choir with the bow of the tromba marina, whose owner-angel rubs thekitty’s belly instead of his instrument.

Hans Memling, Music-making Angels ang Singing Cats, David Bowie the Cat

Our bro DB is not impressed with the wind instruments party. He blocks the trumpet and the shawm with his paws, rightfully thinking that his trumpeting meows deliver a better artistic impression in this piece

And now just compare the true version to the commonly known one, in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA):