Happy Artichoke Day! Today in 1604, Caravaggio threw a plate of artichokes, four cooked in butter and four in oil, at a waiter at Osteria del Moro in Rome and called him a “becco fottuto” (fucking cuckold). You can read about it in my essay in Gastronomica academia.edu/40754475/Carav…

If you happen to be in Fresno this month (and why shouldn't you be??), I'll be giving a talk entitled ''Guerra civile in casa': The Domestic world of the Italian Baroque Artist' on April 25 at Fresno State.

Happy 2,777th birthday, Rome!

Charles Baudelaire, Full-length Self-Portrait made while under the Influence of Hashish, c. 1844, Bibliothèquedes Arts Décoratifs, Paris,

If you happen to be in Fresno this month (and why shouldn't you be??), I'll be giving a talk entitled ''Guerra civile in casa': The Domestic world of the Italian Baroque Artist' on April 25 at Fresno State.

Big news for my department oregonlive.com/business/2024/…

After Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, AKA home on Easter with two bored kids and a box of Peeps

Surgical Instruments with ivory handles carved as Caesar c. 1600 (a play on the Latin 'caesura' or incision) #idesOfMarch

Artemisia Gentileschi's signatures #InternationalWomensDay

Despite a tragically short career--dying at the age of 27--Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1655) was a remarkably successful and prolific artist in her native Bologna #InternationalWomensDay #giornatainternazionaledelladonna #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer

Kyrsten Sinema is like if Portlandia had a villain

🧵 #TalDíaComoHoy de 1970 a las 09.00 el cuerpo sin vida de Mark #Rothko fue encontrado en su taller por su ayudante Oliver Steindecker. La autopsia determinó que se trataba de un suicidio.
Las pinturas oscuras muchas veces se han interpretado como frutos de las ...

#arte Con i suoi 28,74 metri di altezza e 63 tonnellate di peso, il Baldacchino è definito un gigante dell’arte di tutti i tempi, opera unica nel suo genere alla quale collaborò anche Borromini #Vaticano

Great Italian poet Giovanni Battista Marino, painted by great Flemish painter Frans Pourbus the Younger, when both were in Paris in 1621.

Joseph-Marie Vien, La Marchande d'Amours, 1763 (Musée National du Château, Fontainebleau.) #ValentinesDay

New essay by Carmen Ripollés on Josefa de Óbidos: Forjando una identidad: autoimagen y conciencia artística en los primeros grabados de Josefa de Óbidos * Forging Identities: Self-fashioning and Artistic Conscience in the Early Prints of Josefa de Óbidos academia.edu/114405927/Forj…

Andrew Wyeth, Groundhog Day, 1959 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)