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The tiny rural gallery that’s landed a baroque masterpiece With the acquisition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders the Nivaagaard Collection, located in a seaside village, has overtaken the Louvre

A newly emerged Artemisia Gentileschi for Denmark

2/2 Always keep your dagger and your lute handy when you are out partying. Might need either one at a moment's notice, according to Willem Buytewech.

Painting of a rainy cobblestone street with a few walking figures under umbrellas

Gustave Caillebotte, study for Paris Street, Rainy Day, c. 1877

Removal of a hornet's nest.

Completely exhausted by her own feast day: Mary Magdalene, by Artemisia Gentileschi.

Parents, strangely miniature children, and of course dog, poised before a river (ship owner?) and painted in 1620 by Adam Willaerts, whose day is today.

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Born a few days before this day in 1638, died a few days after this day in 1698, Gerrit Berckheyde of Haarlem. Painter of cities. Here by himself, w/ portrait of his brother Job on back wall, 1675.

In Britain, if you moan online about rubbish weather, it’s the law that someone will reply, “lovely and sunny where I am!”

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Servantes Saavedra, Don Kihot

Vanity 1. Vanity 2. Vanity 3. The objects of passing time, lined up on a stone table in 1671 by Philippe de Champaigne. Today was his day.

Walls of the Napoleon House Bar & Cafe in New Orleans. Photos and signatures of patrons on the peeling paint of this landmark in the French Quarter.

Walls of the Napoleon Bar in New Orleans #texture #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofBlueSky #fujifilm #WeAreRoamers

A painting of a woman looking at the viewer holding a mask in one hand, a pomegranate in the other

Lorenzo Lippi, Allegory of Simulation, Oil on Canvas, 73 x 89 cm, c. 1640 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers) #arthistory #earlymodern

Snowy landscape with windswept, gnarled trees

If you're in NYC this coming week & haven't yet seen it, I'd recommend Caspar David Friedrich at the Met, which closes May 11. Not sure the next time this wide a variety of works by the famed German Romantic painter will be assembled again. My fave in the show is this snow-covered winter landscape

Two figures, one larger and one smaller, in a costume design mimicking the human nervous system. The larger figure is seen from the front, the smaller from behind, both have one arm raised as if gesturing

Today's mood: Pavel Tchelitchew, "Nervous System," costume design for the ballet The Cave of Sleep, 1941 www.moma.org/collection/w...

Mary Leopold Griffith in 1838, contemplating what she might destroy next with her exciting scissors. Painted by Sarah Miriam Peale, cousin of Rubens Peale whose day is today.

A majestic juniper in the desert.
San Rafael Swell

"Why are there #trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
Walt Whitman

Utah - 2023
My #hiking life.
My #nature #photography and #landscapes.

Digital painting of a decrepit tavern lost in some greenish mountains.

Last Stop (2025)
#art

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

A jumble of soldiers, armor, antiquities, symbolic objects, a saucy angel pointing upward and looking out that the viewer and above it all th resurrected Christ https://www.artic.edu/artworks/19336/the-resurrection

Cecco del Caravaggio's take on the Resurrection, c. 1619-20, illustrating the delights and drawbacks of painting directly from nature. Commissioned by Piero Guicciardini, Tuscan ambassador to Rome, though, "for reasons lost to history, the painting was rejected" (Art Institute of Chicago)

It’s a good day for thinking it’s Saturday.

Beautiful falling diagonal in this early luxury still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1634. He was born on this day in 1606.

Another image from this incredible foggy morning at the iconic Mont Saint Michel last week…

#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion

The well-trained pet. Those green velvet slippers subtly placed in the foreground corner, matching her jacket, are also divine! By Leiden fine-painter Frans van Mieris, who was born on this day in 1635.