Jesse Locker

"O" really needs to become part of the art-historical lexicon

Painting of blackberry branch in a porcelain bowl

Raphaelle Peale, Blackberries, c. 1813, Oil on wood panel (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

Detail of a painting showing a cat, a rabbit, a turtle, and a dog at the feet of mythical musician Orpheus

Gerrit van Honthorst, Orpheus (detail), c. 1614-1616, oil on canvas, Palazzo Reale, Naples

It sounds like a A Brief History of Publisher Screwing Over Authors is in order 🧵

Jazz haters suck

Detail of a painting showing a cat, a rabbit, a turtle, and a dog at the feet of mythical musician Orpheus

Gerrit van Honthorst, Orpheus (detail), c. 1614-1616, oil on canvas, Palazzo Reale, Naples

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi - Portland Art Museum Join us for a special Art and Conversation with Jesse Locker, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art at Portland State University, and Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., The Richard and […]

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi at the Portland Art Museum, Sept. 4

A Museum of Failed Allegories

[“Nature Forging a Baby,” British Library, Harley 4425 (Roman de la Rose), fol. 140, Bruges, c. 1490-c. 1500.]

Thank you!

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi - Portland Art Museum Join us for a special Art and Conversation with Jesse Locker, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art at Portland State University, and Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., The Richard and […]

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi at the Portland Art Museum, Sept. 4

Book cover depicting a seated Madonna holding the baby Jesus in her lap. He leans forward to a kneeling woman holding his hand in both of hers, reading his palm. Two children and two women, one holding two birds (ducks or geese?) look on. The book's title is printed in black, inside a white block of color, across most of the bottom of the cover.

Cover of North American edition of Josefa de Obidos, on which is depicted a queenly looking Madonna and a curly-haired Child with a halo and scepter, with cherubs in the background. The book title is printed sideways down the right edge of the cover.

Exactly one month to go until publication - on Sept 1 - of

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A young artist wearing a laurel crown draws from ancient heads, dramatically illuminated by an oil lamp

Pietro Paolini, Young Artist Working by Lamplight (possibly an allegory?), Oil on canvas, 68.3 x 121.3 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

A double portrait of a large dog and little girl in a grey interior, a colorful curtain to the right

The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by Valencian painter (and a personal favorite) Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida: Isabelita and Thor, 1893, The portrait was commissioned by the girl's father, Augusto Comas y Blanco. www.nga.gov/press/nation...

A richly colored painting of God, in human form, standing on the grass, surrounded by a variety of birds and animals (including a unicorn)

Creation of the birds and the animals, French, second quarter of the 16th century (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 135, #: fol. 017v)

A woodcut showing Matthew Hopkins "Witch Finder Generall" and two witches sitting in chairs. Above one witch is a banderole reading, "My Imps names are" and numbered names: 1. Ilemauzer 2. Pyewackett 3. Pecke in the Crowne, 4. Griezzel Greedigutt. The other says, "Holt," and a number of fantastical creatures are labeled Jarmara, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, and Vinegar Tom

It makes me think of fantastic names for witches' familiars on the frontispiece of Matthew Hopkins’s "Discovery of Witches" (1645): Holt, Jarmara, Vinegar Tom, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, Pyewackett, Newes, Ilemauzer, Pecke in the Crowne, and Griezzel Greedigutt (a name "no mortall could invent”)

Not sure collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:...

A painting of a blue passion flower vine growing on a striated column

Philip Reinagle, Blue Passion Flower, 1800, for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (London, 1799–1812), Oil on canvas, 45 x 38 cm (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

A painting of a flowered pathway in the Royal Gardens of Aranjuez, Spain

Santiago Rusiñol y Prats, Jardí d'Aranjuez. Glorieta II (Garden of Aranjuez. Glorieta II), 1908, Oil on canvas, 140 x 135 cm (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)

A black-and-white photo of workers in overalls and men in suits supporting Caravaggio's "Madonna of the Rosary" (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna(

Workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, uncrating Caravaggio's Madonna of the Rosary, 1950 (National Archives and Records Administration)

Cadavers on the brain

I had never seen this! He was an eccentric character

De Beirut a California, el viaje singular de Artemisia Gentileschi: así acabó una pintura de la artista italiana en el museo Getty de Los Ángeles La obra inédita de la pintora sufrió importantes daños en la explosión en Líbano en 2020. Ha sido restaurada de manera gratuita durante tres años

Hace cinco años, una inmensa explosión en Beirut arrasó con todo a su paso, incluido el palacio Sursock, una residencia particular que guardaba el cuadro 'Hércules y Onfalia', de Artemisia Gentileschi. Así acabó esta obra en el museo Getty de Los Ángeles

Disquieting painting of the head of a man composed of writhing nude figures

Filippo Balbi, "Testa anatomica," the head of a man composed of writhing nude figures, 1854 (Wellcome Collection)

An interior with two children seated at a table as a mother or nanny(?) serves them snacks, including a cottage loaf. Various ceramic wares and toys are visible along the walls and on the floor

Denys George Wells, Nursery Tea, 1909, oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm (Private Collection)

A woman crushing a flea in a candle-lit room

Nothing like a late-night flea hunt.

[Georges de La Tour, Woman Catching Fleas, 1630s, Musée Historique, Nancy]

Pedro Orrente Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos (detail) Ca. 1620. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado

Pedro Orrente Imposition of the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonsus (detail) Oil on canvas Solís Foundation Collection, Toledo

Pedro Orrente Miracle of Saint Leocadia (detail) Oil on canvas Toledo Cathedral

Pedro Orrente Saint Sebastian (detail) Oil on canvas Valencia Cathedral

Some details from the Pedro Orrente exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. I don’t really understand him as a painter but there are some nice elements

The Hispanic Society tendrá sede en Valencia - ARS Magazine El president de la Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, y el director del museo y biblioteca norteamericano, Guillaume Kientz, han firmado esta mañana en el Palau de la Generalitat un acuerdo marco para el prés...

Hispanic Society of America to open European headquarters in Valencia, slated to open in 2026

It’s a pretty little town, though the other was supposed to be nice too

Accidentally went to Rubielos de Mora today instead of Mora de Rubielos. 😞 Or maybe it was the other way around.

From what I understand, many of the figures are based on ivory figures and dolls and the like, which give them that strange quality. (Though she is sometimes pretty bad)