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Jesse Locker
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Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
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Welcome new followers! Here are a few tips for succeeding on Bluesky from the Speculum principis, c. 1512:
LACMA Unframed: 50 Works 50 Weeks: Lavinia Fontana’s “The Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria”
50 Works 50 Weeks: Lavinia Fontana’s “The Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria”
As LACMA prepares for the 2026 public opening of the new David Geffen Galleries, the future home of the museum’s permanent collection spanning a breadth of eras and cultures, we’re sharing 50 iconic a...
unframed.lacma.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Attributed to the Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, A Peasant Boy Eating Pasta, 1630-50, Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm
(Private collection)
January 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Attributed to the Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, A Peasant Boy Eating Pasta, 1630-50, Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm
(Private collection)
January 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Jesse Locker
A basket of plums never looked so aesthetically perfect as when painted, in 1629, by Louise Moillon of Paris. Today is her day.
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Online event with author Carmen Ripollés discussing Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos. Free for National Gallery members www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/a-bar... #earlymodern #nationalgallery
January 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
"and a special hello to all the ladies out there"

[José de Ibarra, Cristo en el jardín de las delicias o el Divino esposo (Christ in the Garden of Delights or the Divine Spouse),
1728, oil on canvas, (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán)]
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Attributed to Gonzales Coques, Unfinished portrait of a man, full-length, handing a letter to a boy in an interior, 1640s? (Orsay Collection)
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Sculpture speaks to the blind man while painting says nothing. Sense of touch, as painted for the sighted by Jusepe de Ribera, born on this day in 1591.
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Exhibition of dreamy Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi coming to the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2026
Hammershøi. The Eye that Listens
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents the first retrospective in Spain devoted to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), which will o...
www.museothyssen.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Welcome new followers! Here are a few tips for succeeding on Bluesky from the Speculum principis, c. 1512:
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Adam Elsheimer, Flight into Egypt, with a remarkable depiction of the Milky Way, 1609, Oil on copper, 31 x 41 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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I like to think that this is the would-be diva.
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" in Focus at the Morgan Library January 16 through April 19, 2026
Caravaggio’s ‘Boy with a Basket of Fruit’ in Focus
A baroque masterpiece leaves Rome for the Morgan Library & Museum in New York to hang alongside works by Arcimboldo and Annibale Carracci
apollo-magazine.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
archives.yale.edu/repositories...
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Louise Hollandine, Princess Palatine, Self-portrait holding a paintbrush, c. 1650, oil on panel (formerly Sotheby’s)
January 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I searched for "sprezzatura" on Amazon and I think they got the right idea
January 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Counterpoint: There is no “race” to find Leonardo’s DNA. Why would there be? To build an army of super Leonardo da Vincis? And anyway “a chalk drawing attributed by some to Leonardo” is probably not the best way to find it.
The Race to Find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA Just Took a Major Twist
Scientists have uncovered genetic evidence that they say may be linked to the Renaissance master, but some experts are more skeptical
www.scientificamerican.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Happy birthday to Elisabetta Sirani, who had the right idea. Born January 8, 1638.
January 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Symposium at the @museodelprado.es: "Protagonistas femeninas en la formación de las colecciones del Museo del Prado. Isabel de Farnesio," March 6-7 www.museodelprado.es/recurso/prot...
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Sad Forebodings of What is to Come (plate one from The Disasters of War series), 1814/20, published 1863, Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges, Art Institute of Chicago.
January 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Small, groundbreaking exhibition on 16th-century painter Catharina van Hemessen coming to Antwerp and London next year
First-ever oil painting depicting an artist at work to star in female Old Master exhibition
Catharina van Hemessen’s self-portrait will be presented at the National Gallery, as interest in early women painters grows
www.theartnewspaper.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Jacopo Ligozzi, Jerboa, c. 1580-1600, drawing, 260 x 341 mm (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, Florence)
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Julius Exner, A girl from Fanø, Denmark, in traditional dress and mask (strude) for the harvest, 1899, oil on canvas, 31 cm (12.2 in) x 23 cm (9 in), Private collection
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM