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art history nerd, laughs at own jokes, makes things
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Going straight to spell

Angelo Caroselli, Scene of Sorcery, between 1620 and 1630, Private collection #ArtHistoryPun #PunkForADayDay #BePunkEveryday
In intensive scare

John Collier, Fire, c. 1900, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum #ArtHistoryPun
The powers that zombie

After Ebenezer Sibly, Edward Kelly, a Magician, in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person, after 1807, Wellcome Collection #ArtHistoryPun #zombie
Self confidence and social skulls

Artist Unknown, Vanité macabre, 1650, Calvet Museum #ArtHistoryPuns
Witch and moan about everything

Jean-François Portaels, The Witch, between 1840 and 1895, Private Collection #ArtHistoryPuns
As the story ghost

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Benkei Fighting the Ghost of Taira Tomomori (cropped), 1818, Museum of Fine Art Boston
Feed on their greed

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, 1650, Alte Pinakothek #ArtHistoryPun #EatTheRich
Make a Baroness of things

Sofia Martins de Souza, Portrait of the Baroness of Nova Sintra, c. 1900, Museum of the Misericórdia of Porto #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists
Standing there all a frog

Saint Beatus of Liébana, Unclean spirits, Commentary on the Apocalypse, Beatus of Santo Domingo de Silos, 1091-1109, British Library #ArtHistoryPun #MedievalArt #Agog
The balance of flower

Artist Unknown, Portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, 1810, Private Collection #ArtHistoryPun
She acted as regent for her son, King Louis XIV during the early years of his reign. She lost her life to breast cancer, age 65.
Anne of Austria (1601-1666), was born in Spain, married to King Louis XIII of France at age 14 and had trouble adapting to life in the French court. Her relationship with Louis was incredibly cold and she struggled to conceive, so do did not give birth to the heir until she was 37 years old.
In the blink of her compromise

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Infanta Ana Mauricia, 1607, Baltimore Museum of Art #ArtHistoryPun
Elizabeth Nourse (1859-1938) was a realist-style painter. Nourse lived and worked in Paris and was the first American woman to be voted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1920, she was treated for breast cancer, but in 1937 the cancer returned. She died a year later.
It’s net what I fished for

Elizabeth Nourse, Fisher Girl of Picardy, 1889, Smithsonian American Art Museum #ArtHistory #WomenArtists
Got a latte on my plate right now

Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Lavergne Family Breakfast, 1754, The National Gallery #ArtHistory #CoffeeDay
If I may be so old

Celia Castro, Vieja, 1860-1930, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile #ArtHistory #WomenArtists
Their wealth was the direct result of the enslaved indigenous and African peoples they exploited.
This painting originally hung in the Convent of Santa Inés in Mexico City to identify its benefactor. The building was financed by Doña Inés de Velasco and her husband, the owners the largest sugarcane plantation in New Spain.
Guilt from the ground up

Baltasar de Echave Orio, Portrait of Doña Inés de Velasco, 1558-1623, Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico) #ArtHistory
Only because I fan

Antonia de Bañuelos Thorndike, María de los Milagros Elduayen, Marquesa de Valladares, before 1920, private collection #arthistory #womenartists
Getting my bearings

Shishkin, Ivan, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1889, Tretyakov Gallery #ArtHistory #FatBearWeek
Catalina Micaela was the daughter of the King of Spain Philip II, and his third wife. She was described as beautiful, intelligent, arrogant and well aware of her high social status.
Ruff to be around

Sofonisba Anguissola (possibly), Portrait of Caterina Micaela di Savoie, between 1585 and 1597, Casa Cavassa #ArtHistory #WomenArtists
My heart reads for you

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Longing, 1899, Pinacoteca de São Paulo #ArtHistory