Unknown American artist, Cat and Kittens, c. 1872/1883, oil on millboard (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Inexplicably not on view.

BREAKING: Despite four votes of No Confidence, the President & Board of Portland State University have proceeded to balance the budget on the backs of students, faculty, & staff & announce the deepest cuts in the history of the university. @psuaaup.bsky.social 👇

"Knight called the reductions, including the end of University Studies, a 'backlash' to the humanities."

Unknown American artist, Cat and Kittens, c. 1872/1883, oil on millboard (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Inexplicably not on view.

Higher ed was once considered a civic good, back when civic goods were considered good

Spring sale at Yale University Press. My book (and lots of even better ones) are 50% off!

A collaboration between Mario Nuzzi, a celebrated still-painter (thus known as Mario de' Fiori), who painted the flowers, and Giovanni Maria Morandi, who painted the flower-painter at work. 1658-1659, oil on canvas, 191 x 262 cm, Ariccia, Palazzo Chigi

It's been over a year, and I'm just now seeing that @arthist-net.bsky.social is here #arthistory #academicsky

Exciting exhibition coming to Detroit next spring

If there's one thing kids go crazy for, it's Filippo Baldinucci

Why not get that special someone this pretty little early Caillebotte? www.christies.com/lot/lot-6585...

Creatures thought to be disease demons of the Bosnian Romani people, source unknown (Wellcome Collection)

this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit

Anonymous American painter, The Proud Mother, c. 1810, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art )

National Gallery, London, July 3: "Josefa de Óbidos: Painter of the Portuguese Baroque" a half-day symposium with Susana Varela Flor, Salvador Salort-Pons, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, Carmen Ripollés and Daniel Sobrino Ralston. Free and open to the public www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/josef...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Valentin de Boulogne, Judith, 1626-28, Oil on canvas, 97 x 74 cm (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)

Almost disappointed to block this account

“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

Philippe Rousseau, Chardin and his Models, 1867, oil on canvas (Musée d’Orsay). An interesting tribute to 18th-century painter Jean Siméon Chardin through the objects he represented.

Ludovico Carracci, Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, 1612 (Getty, Los Angeles). Commissioned by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini for Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome on the site of where the saint’s body was been found, the cardinal worried the lifeless saint would “not inspire much devotion.”

Carmen Ripollés and Patrick Lenaghan will discuss the work of Josefa de Óbidos and Luisa Roldán. The program celebrates the recent publication of Josefa de Óbidos by Dr. Ripolles, the first English-language monograph about the pioneering Portuguese painter.

A great tool for understanding the representations of midwives in painting, such as this Birth of Saint John the Baptist by Artemisia Gentileschi in the Prado, ca. 1635.

The first thumbs-up I know of in art. Diego Velázquez, Tavern Scene (El Almuerzo), c. 1617, Oil on canvas, 108.5 cm × 102 cm (42.7 in × 40 in), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Mood. [Juan Sánchez Cotán, St. Hugo Resurrecting the Professor, ca. 1600. Granada, Cartuja]

Jan Saenredam after Hendrick Goltzius, Homage Paid to Bacchus, 1596, engraving on ivory laid paper. Bacchus gives the gift of wine to grateful drinkers. Thought to be one of the inspirations for Velázquez’s “Los borrachos”

Staying in the best nautical-themed rental in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood

May Day, New York City, 1909

Anonymous Italian painter. Armellino the Cat with Sonnet, 18th century (Museo di Roma). The sonnet seems to be a peculiar love poem to Armellino's owner

Domenico Fetti, Penitent Mary Magdalen, about 1615, Oil on canvas, 99 x 77.2 cm (39 x 30 3/8 in.), (MFA Boston)

Paolo Guidotti, St. Christopher, looking an awful lot like the mustachioed artist who painted him, c. 1608–1611. Oil on canvas, 79 x 102 cm. (Private collection, UK)

This headless Mary Magdalene reportedly just sold for an astonishing €837,500

N. Jay Jaffee, Kishke King, 1953, printed 1984, selenium-toned gelatin silver print, sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.5 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1993.16.1

Giovanni Battista Magni, Allegory of Astronomy, 1644 (Galleria Spada, Rome). Mostly known for his stucco work, Magni also painted several works with astronomical themes, including a sophisticated sundial, for Cardinal Bernardino Spada, who was keenly interested in natural sciences

Happy Artichoke Day to all who celebrate! Today in 1604, the painter Caravaggio threw a plate of artichokes at a waiter at Osteria del Moro in Rome and called him a “becco fottuto” (fucking cuckold). I wrote about it for Gastronomica a few years ago www.academia.edu/40754475/Car...

Giovanna Garzoni, Self-Portrait, c. 1650, Pastel and charcoal on paper, 495 x 380 mm (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington)

Guido Cagnacci, The Conversion of Mary Magdalene, c. 1661-62, Oil on canvas, 90 1/4 x 104 1/2 in. (229.2 x 265.4 cm), Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Fun costume idea from "Il carnevale italiano mascherato: que si veggono in figura varie inuentione de capritii" by Francesco Bertelli (1642): A tough guy who likes to brag about all his exploits in Italy

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Early 17th-century Italian sampler, signed in stitch by one Giulia Piccolomini, next to a self-portrait (?) (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Lionello Spada’s St. Jerome, wearing some very modern spectacles. 1610s, oil on canvas, 112 x 143 cm (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)

Happy 2,779th birthday to Rome, founded on this day 753 BC [Some semi-imaginary views by Giovanni Paolo Pannini]

In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti

The mythological shepherd Endymion was loved by Selene, the goddess of the moon, who observed him as he slept. Here Guercino portrays holding a relatively new invention, the telescope as he sleeps, which allows him to observe the movements of the moon (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)

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Jordan Schnitzer, Portland's Prince of Prints

The circle of death is: Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

My Spanish father-in-law's take on the Rothko exhibit we just saw: “See? He smoked too!”

Orazio Gentileschi, Joseph and Potiphar's wife c. 1630-2, Oil on canvas, 206.0 x 261.9 cm (Royal Collection, Windsor)