Happy birthday to my girlfriend Hedy Lamarr, born November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria.

Michaelina Wautier at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Michaelina Wautier at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

do you guys have artemisia pants yet

Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)

"In the Seventeenth Century, Naples was full of Women's Voices": 67 works by women on view at the Gallerie d’Italia in Naples. www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Mostre/Nel-S...

From the 1860s, but feels so modern. [Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]

Hear author Carmen Ripollés talking about her new book on Josefa de Óbidos on the 'Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War' podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbR...

"We were here. The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe." Free screening with the filmmaker at 5th Ave Cinema in Portland, Nov. 12 #pdx #earlymodern

Claude Lorrain, View of the Acqua Acetosa, c. 1645, pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite (Cleveland Museum of Art)

Orazio Gentileschi at the Musei Reali di Torino Nov. 22 to May 3

Frescos painted by Annibale Carracci and Francesco Albani for the Herrera Chapel in San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome (right on the Piazza Navona) now installed in the Prado in their original configuration

156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...

A new work thought to be from Artemisia Gentileschi's Neapolitan period up for auction at Christie's www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.

A portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola the centerpiece of "Poetic Portraits: Allegory and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe" at Timken Museum of Art in San Diego www.timkenmuseum.org/news/poetic-...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

A fascinating look at the things Vermeer owned, and very close to my own research on Italian artists (now just wishing I knew Dutch)

Wax sculptures are some of the eeriest and most fascinating. Exhibition from Medici collections opens at the Uffizi December 16. (Play on words "Cera una volta" works a lot better in Italian.)

Formerly attributed to Domenico Fetti, the authorship of this lovely 17th-century painting in Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, remains uncertain

I was interviewed about my family history during the Spanish Cilvil was and about my new book on Josefa de Óbidos for the podcast "Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War" Youtube: youtu.be/VGbRZMCAaYg Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ij3... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Interview with @cripolles.bsky.social on her new book about 17th-century Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos

Morris Kantor, Captain’s House, 1929, oil on canvas, 1929, 26 1/8 x 30 in. (66.2 x 76.2 cm) (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Pier Francesco Cittadini, called il Milanese, Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables, a Cat and a Bird, and Two Figures, c. 1650–1660 (Gallerie Estensi, Modena)

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

Charles Baudelaire, Self-Portrait made while under the Influence of Hashish, c. 1844, watercolor on paper (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris)

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1615 (Private Collection)

Fujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita), Self-portrait with Cat, c. 1920s, Color woodblock print, 38.8 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Thomas Smith, Self-Portrait, c. 1680, oil on canvas, 24 2/5 x 23 3/5 inches (62 x 60 cm) (Worcester Art Museum) #SelfPortraitSunday

Man Ray, Jean Cocteau Creating a Self-Portrait Out of Wire, ca. 1928, Gelatin silver print, 11.3 x 8.4 cm (Centre Pompidou, Paris) #SelfPortraitSunday

If you're in the Minneapolis area, Sheila Barker will be speaking tomorrow on "Artemisia Gentileschi and the Ghost of Michelangelo" at the MIA new.artsmia.org/event/guest-... #mn #arthistory

Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of November (Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim), 1643

Andy Warhol, Halloween, 1949, lithograph in black on wove paper, 28.2 x 18.5 cm (National Gallery of Art)

We've met @gettymuseum.bsky.social author Carmen Ripollés at the Sixteenth Century Society conference, pictured below with her book, Josefa de Óbidos. #scsc2025 #16thC

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, Oil on canvas, 101 x 127 cm (Institute of Arts, Detroit)

Francisco de Goya, Witches' Sabbath, 1789, Oil on canvas, 43 x 30 cm (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid)

Happy Halloween! [Gian Jacopo Caraglio after Rosso Fiorentino, Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand, c. 1525, engraving on laid paper, sheet- 25.1 x 18.7 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]

Bunnies take their revenge. Rabbits Roasting a Hunter and His Dogs. Virgilius Solis, German, 1514-1562. (The Cleveland Museum of Art)

Carstian Luyckx, Memento Mori with musical instruments, books, sheet music, skeleton, skulls, and armor, Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm (Private collection)

@support.bsky.team Something needs to be done about this endless stream of bots! I'm blocking 75+ new "followers" a day!

If you're in Portland for the Sixteenth Century Conference this week, @cripolles.bsky.social and I have organized three panels on Reassessing the Material Culture of the Manila Galleons on Saturday. Come say hi! #earlymodern #renaissance #materialculture vmx.m-anage.com/us/scsc2025/...

Call For Papers: "The Spanish Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Conference," University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, Conference dates: June 10 - 11, 2026. Deadline tomorrow: www.setstudies.org/conference_1

This 1607 painting of a Witches' Sabbath by by Frans Francken II (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) has so many diabolical things going on it's hard to know where to begin.

Raymond Breinin, The Night, 1941, opaque watercolor on cardboard, 20 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Poor lil guy Bartolomé Bermejo, Descent of Christ into Limbo (detail), c. 1475. Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya

Giovanni Martinelli, Death Come to the Table of the Miser, 1638, oil on canvas, 102 x 126 cm (formerly Sotheby's)

Louis-Léopold Boilly, A trompe-l'oeil with a cat and a wooden log through a canvas, and a fish hanging from the stretcher, oil on canvas, 33½ x 37¾ in. (85 x 96 cm.) (formerly Christie's)

Looking for some Halloween costume inspo? Some first-rate ideas in this 18th-century demonology book: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/compendium-of-demonology-and-magic-ca-1775/ #halloween

Elizabeth Cropper on 16th-century painters Prospero and Lavinia Fontana www.nicholashall.art/journal/fath...

Classic Ray