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Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth.
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Trophime Bigot, Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, c. 1600-50? (Hampton Court Palace). The ceramic vessel reads "OLIO"

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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, The Holy Family with Saint Catherine, 1617 - 1619, Oil on canvas (Museo del Prado) #ealymodern #arthistory

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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, The Holy Family with Saint Catherine, 1617 - 1619, Oil on canvas (Museo del Prado) #ealymodern #arthistory

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Frans Post, Pernambuco Landscape, 1637-44, oil on wood, 34.3 x 47.3 cm (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio). Post was a Dutch painter who specialized Brazilian landscapes during the period when parts of Brazil were "New Holland" (1630-1654)

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes, 1836, Oil on canvas, 25 ¼ x 31 ½ in. (64 x 80 cm), Kimbell Art Museum

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A page from Gaspar Sanz's guide to playing the guitar, Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, y método de sus primeros rudimentos, hasta tanerla con destreza (Zaragoza, 1697) #baroque #musichistory #earlymodern

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Happy Father's Day! Domenico Ghirlandaio, St. Barbara Crushing her Infidel Father, with a Kneeling Donor, c. 1473, Panel, 68 x 47 cm (Private collection)

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Portland, Oregon #NoKings

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Silver medal featuring Oliver Cromwell and Masaniello, 1658 (British Museum) #NoKings

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Seafood, fountains, and shipwrecks in Madrid

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An extremely rare signed work by Neapolitan painter Diana de Rosa, known as Annella de Rosa, Saint Cecilia with an Angel about 1630-40, Oil on canvas. 97.5 × 76.5 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Signed on the sheet music in Saint Cecilia's hand: "Io Diana d. Rosa / Sor di Giovanni"

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This painting survived an explosion. Reserve your free ticket to see Artemisia's Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece, now through September 14, 2025: gty.art/446BwMF

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Michael Wutky, The Summit of Vesuvius Erupting, 1779, Oil on canvas, 95 x 146 cm (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna)

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Last time that elected national representatives were put in chains or handcuffs? USA: Today UK: 1648* *Colonel Pride and soldiers physically arrested 45 MPs at Westminster

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Giovanna Garzoni, Melons, 1651-52, gouache on parchment (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti)

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Man Ray, Jean Cocteau with a wire portrait, ca. 1928, Gelatin silver print, 11.3 x 8.4 cm (Centre Pompidou, Paris)

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Mussolini in Hell. [Dante Ringhiero (Pseudonym), Ultimo canto e altre fascinazisterie romanesche (Inferno: The Final canto and other fascist-nazi-ing ditties). Edizioni ABC, 1944 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches (20.64 x 16.19 cm) Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections]

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Enjoying the illustrations to Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum historia (History of Monsters), Bologna, 1642 archive.org/details/vlys...

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Jean-Marc Nattier, Allegory of Justice Punishing Injustice 1737, Oil on canvas, 133 x 161 cm (Private collection) #Mood

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Jusepe de Ribera, Allegory of Smell, 1614-15 (Private collection)

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Adam de Coster, Young Woman Holding a Distaff, c. 1630, Oil on canvas, 134 x 95 cm, Private collection

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Hans Hoffmann, A Hare in the Forest, about 1585, Oil on panel (Getty Center, Los Angeles)

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Happy birthday to Diego Velázquez, born on this day in 1599. [The Fable of Arachne (Las Hilanderas), c. 1657, Oil on canvas, 220 x 289 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid]

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Celebrating National Doughnut Day as the ancients did

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Niccolò Tornioli, The Astronomers, 1642-45, 148 × 218.5 cm (Galleria Spada, Roma). Commissioned by Virgilio Spada, architectural theorist, amateur astronomer, and head of the Oratorian order #arthistory #historyofscience 🗃️

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Adriaen Brouwer, Brawling Peasants, Oak, 27 x 35 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

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Signed "David with the Head of Goliath" by Artemisia Gentileschi coming up for sale at Sotheby's in London

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A+ fennel painting [Carlo Magini, Still-Life, 1760s, Oil on canvas, 55 x 84 cm Private collection]

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I've been fascinated by this 18th-century condom since I saw at Christies ages ago and have wondered if anyone out there had studied these www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3...

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Evaristo Baschenis, Boy with a Basket of Bread, 1655-65 (Private collection)

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Judith Mann's review of the current Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition in Paris www.burlington.org.uk/archive/exhi...

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