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Doc Baroque

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I'm Doc Baroque: an artist, art historian, and Caravaggio expert with dual MFAs and a PhD in Art History. My blog explores art history through request-driven, scholarly posts. Unapologetically Indigenous.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · Jan 20

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The Scythe Always Wins: Art’s Long Romance with the End
Few figures have traveled farther, or worn more masks, than Death.

The Scythe Always Wins: Art’s Long Romance with the End

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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

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Scales of the Dead: Your Heart vs. Her Ledger
Santa Muerte (La Santa, La Niña Blanca, La Flaquita) emerges at the meeting point of pre-Hispanic death veneration and colonial Catholicism, a folk-saint who mediates between living petitions and the strict arithmetic of death.
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Scales of the Dead: Your Heart vs. Her Ledger

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

When Time Rots: Dalí’s Clocks and Other Nightmares
Salvador Dalí’s “hand-painted dream photographs” are often read as caprices, but their ice-cold finish houses a sustained anatomy of dread.

When Time Rots: Dalí’s Clocks and Other Nightmares

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. No, I will not be humble. Please plan your adoration schedule accordingly.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter (c. 1844) does not depict a monster so much as the moment architecture discovers it can open its ribs.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter (c. 1844) does not depict a monster so much as the moment architecture discovers it can open its ribs. A palace room (screens, blinds, ...

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

The Sheet That Haunts Back
In the late Edo through Meiji periods, Japanese printmakers transformed stage phantoms, folktale creatures, and ritual anxieties into a portable, mass-circulating visual culture of fear.
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The Sheet That Haunts Back

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Art scholarship opportunity 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Thankful they caught him 🙏🏼
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Arrest made in deadly Palisades fire, source tells CNN | CNN

A suspect has been arrested in connection to the Palisades Fire, which burned in January.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Kiss Me Bloodless: Crimson Rituals in the Pre-Raphaelite Night
Victorian Britain’s fascination with bodily purity, medieval ritual, and scientific modernity found an uncanny pressure point in the Pre-Raphaelite image of the beautiful female figure.
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Kiss Me Bloodless: Crimson Rituals in the Pre-Raphaelite Night

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I can so relate to this 😂

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–1620) is not a narrative so much as the second in which narrative becomes muscle.

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–1620) is not a narrative so much as the second in which narrative becomes muscle. No prelude, no epilogue; only the clamp of hands, the grind of...

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday, @thekrcreations.bsky.social
May this year bring you ridiculous amounts of joy, health, and the kind of luck that finds you even when you’re not looking. Grateful for you today and every day.

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Witches Don’t Whisper, They Print: Fear as a Reproducible Object
Between the late fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, European artists forged a pictorial language for witchcraft and necromancy that was as technical as it was theological.
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Witches Don’t Whisper, They Print: Fear as a Reproducible Object

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (1781) does not depict sleep so much as the moment sleep is invaded.

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Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (1781) does not depict sleep so much as the moment sleep is invaded. A woman is flung across the bed, the arm lax, the throat bright. On her chest sits a compact weight, t...

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 6d

All “Cups of Coffee” go directly toward organizations dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence. As always, I personally match each donation to double the impact. And as a survivor, this is a mission especially close to my heart.

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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 7d

On this day in 1987, #TheCure released "Just Like Heaven" as the third single from their seventh studio album, "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"

#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Bone Choir: Death leads, we follow
Between the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century and the early decades of print, European visual culture forged a vocabulary for thinking with terror.
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Bone Choir: Death leads, we follow

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 7d

Skulls Call Places: Vanitas as Theatre of the Dead
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish vanitas painting turns the still life into theatre, where objects direct our looking and our thinking about time.
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Skulls Call Places: Vanitas as Theatre of the Dead

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 8d

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Damn now even Trump is Hamas....

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Pixie’s Theatre of Ghosts: The Rider–Waite–Smith as a Stage for the Spirits
Pamela Colman Smith illustrator, designer, editor, and occult initiate, gave twentieth-century viewers a new way to read pictures when she visualized the seventy-eight images of the Rider–Waite–Smith (RWS) tarot in 1909.

Pixie’s Theatre of Ghosts: The Rider–Waite–Smith as a Stage for the Spirits

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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 9d

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