Peer review [“Le Manuel des Péchés” (Handbook of Sins), late thirteenth century, University of Nottingham fol. 48r.]
Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
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
Corrado Giaquinto, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Contemplating the Sacred Heart of Jesus, c. 1765 (Private collection)
Alessandro Allori’s "Portrait of a Young Man" was painted in the late 16th century but maintains a timeless relevance
Costume of the sixteenth-century Venetian confraternity that accompanied condemned criminals to their deaths, from Cesare Vecellio, "De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diversi parti del mondo, libri due..." (1590)
All you Haters be Plucking the Wings of Fame [François-Guillaume Ménageot, Envy Plucking the Wings of Fame, 1806, Oil on canvas, 105 x 91 cm, Private collection]
Upcoming exhibition on Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence at the Museo degli Innocenti, though not much information about it yet
Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence
From October 21, 2026, to April 4, 2027, the Museo degli Innocenti , for the first time, an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi’s Florentine period.
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The best part of Federico Barocci's altarpieces are often the margins, which draw you in still lifes, animals, or other visual pleasures [Federico Barocci, The Visitation (detail), 1584-86, Cappella Pozzomiglio, Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome]
Beautiful 18th-century botanical models in wax from the Museo della Specola in Florence (source: www.finestresullarte.info/opere-e-arti...)
Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of August (1642), height: 147 cm (57.8 in); width: 122 cm (48 in), from a series of months in Schleissheim Palace commissioned by Bavarian elector Maximilian I
Traces of the miniature wonders of Giovanna Garzoni's world in Florence www.finestresullarte.info/en/travelnot...
Padovanino, Penelope Bringing the Bow to Her Suitors, 1620s(?), National Gallery of Ireland, an extremely rare subject in painting, and possibly related to Monteverdi’s opera "II ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (Venice, 1640)
@lynbennetthfx.bsky.social and my book has arrived on my desk! Pre-orders available now for shipping on 22.09.2026! www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Earl...
"The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth" — from what many consider to be the first picture book for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658). More in our essay here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-the-image-of-god-john-comenius-and-the-first-children-s-picture-book
Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia in a straw hat, 1633, Silverpoint on vellum, 185 x 107 mm (Staatliche Museen, Berlin). Inscription, added later, reads, "This was drawn after my wife, when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were engaged 8 June 1633."
Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Girls of Burriana (Falleras), 1910-1911 (Hispanic Society, New York)
Firefighting planes collecting water from the Mediterranean to fight the fires in Vall d'Uixó, Spain (taken from our balcony)
Life continues in a surreal way here as people swim in the Mediterranean and dine al fresco while ashes rain down and a column of smoke looms
EL PAÍS@elpais.com · last wk.El fuego avanza sin control por el parque natural de la Sierra de Espadán de Castellón. El incendio que empezó en un barrio de La Vall d’Uix, se fue extiendo a lo largo del día. Hay 16.000 evacuados
Federico Zuccaro, Portrait of the sculptor Giambologna holding a wax model, Black and red chalk on paper, 26.10 x 18.80 cm (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Pleased to see it out at last! Digging down into the lived experience and ways of thinking that objects, fabrics, scents etc brought with them onto the stage, in short chapters based around particular things (with colour images!).
The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 2w agoBeds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM
‘It’s really the only encyclopaedic collection in the country.’ Xavier Salomon, who recently took over as director of the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, talks to Edward Behrens about what makes the museum so special.
New look, new director: what’s next for Lisbon’s best museum?
The director of the newly renovated Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon talks to Edward Behrens about its ambitious renovation and his vision for the future
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Pellegrini Tibaldi, The Blinding of Polyphemus, fresco in the Sala di Ulisse (scene 1), Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, 1550-51, painted for Cardinal Giovanni Poggi
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Untitled (Girl with Cat and Tiles), 1956, color lithograph on cream wove paper, 38.1 x 32.6 cm (15 x 12 13/16 in.), Worcester Art Museum
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Untitled (Girl with Cat and Tiles), 1956, color lithograph on cream wove paper, 38.1 x 32.6 cm (15 x 12 13/16 in.), Worcester Art Museum
I love the oddness of painter Marco Benefial, something of an outcast from the academic traditions of 18th-century Rome. His "Vision of St. Caterina Fieschi" of 1737 is simultaneously utterly theatrical and just a little *too* real. ("Please, Jesus, don't drip blood all over my nice clean floor!")
Phaeton, Tantalus, Icarus, and Ixion, from the series “The Four Disgracers” by Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius after drawings by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1588, though mostly an excuse to show twisted, falling bodies from unusual, and sometimes shocking, angles (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Water, 1566, oil on wood, 66.5 cm x 50.5 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
