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Käthe Kollwitz The Mothers (Die Mütter), detail, 1922–1923 Born 1867, Konigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia); died 1945, Dresden, Germany Lithograph (Edition 1/100) 20 ½ x 29 ⅝ inches Gift of Peggy deSalle Cranbrook Art Museum 1984.48

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Ore 8½. Alzata, lavature. Ore 9. Colazione, caffè e latte, panino imburrato. Ore 9½-12. Passeggiata nel centro. Domenica del Corriere, Travaso delle Idee, Guerrin Meschino, ecc. Ore 12½. Vermuth. Ore 13. Pranzo (un piatto di più). Ore 14-16. Siesta. Ore 17-20. Caffè, giornali illustrati, Secolo o Corriere, briscola o dama. Sigari o sigarette. Ore 20 ½-21 ½. Cena. Ore 22. Cinematografo o Café Chantant. Ore 23-7. Coito. Sonno. [8:30 a.m. Get up, wash. 9 a.m. Breakfast, coffee and milk, buttered bread roll. 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Walk in the city center. Domenica del Corriere, Travaso delle Idee, Guerrin Meschino, etc. 12:30 p.m. Vermouth. 1 p.m. Lunch (one extra dish). 2-4 p.m. Siesta. 5-8 p.m. Coffee, illustrated newspapers, Secolo or Corriere, briscola or checkers. Cigars or cigarettes. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Dinner. 10 p.m. Cinema or Café Chantant. 11 p.m.-7 a.m. Intercourse. Sleep.]

Plans for the day from the "Almanacco purgativo 1914" by futurists Ardegno Soffici and Giovanni Papini (translation in alt-text)

Seven paintings by early modern women, with a row of 3 artworks centered underneath a row of 4 artworks.

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Early Modern Women Artists at Auction in 2025
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In which we revisit sales at auction in 2025 of works by European women artists of the 17th and 18th centuries...

Yes!

"In this whimsical maiolica sculpture, a well-dressed man leans forward in his seat with his head in a covered pot set above a fiery hearth. The vessel beside the hearth almost certainly held ink. The man’s actions are explained by an inscription on the chair: "I distill my brain and am totally happy." Thus the task of the writer is equated with distillation—the process through which a liquid is purified by heating and cooling, extracting its essence." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188899

Detail of inkstand showing damaged inscription

Side view of inkwell

Tips on coping from the Renaissance

Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Unfortunate whenever she’s relevant

Käthe Kollwitz The Mothers (Die Mütter), detail, 1922–1923 Born 1867, Konigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia); died 1945, Dresden, Germany Lithograph (Edition 1/100) 20 ½ x 29 ⅝ inches Gift of Peggy deSalle Cranbrook Art Museum 1984.48

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Gresham family seeking medical care for their 7-year-old detained by immigration officers The family’s detainment marks the first confirmed detainment of an entire family in Oregon, advocates say.

The family of three, who have a pending asylum application, went to urgent care on Jan. 15 to get medical help for their 7-year-old daughter. They only made it to the parking lot as immigration officers detained them. It's the same location where federal officers recently shot two people.

Our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are.

Title page to treatise on meat-carving IL TRINCIANTE DI M. VINCENZO CERVIO

Illustrations of meat-carving tools from IL TRINCIANTE

Pages from IL TRINCIANTE with a big stain on it

I was just thinking about this problem when I was looking at this 16th-century treatise on meat-carving (for...reasons). Do you think these are meat stains (??). They appear on different pages

L’Homme Riche Ou La Noblesse (The Rich Man or Nobility) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). Nobles in a fancy, well appointed home

L’Homme Misérable Ou l’Etat de Pauvreté (The Wretched Man or the State of Poverty) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). Ragged people in a battered bedroom

L’Artisan Ou Le Travail (The Craftsman or Labor), from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). A man, woman, and child in a workshop

L’Homme Sauvage (The Wild Man) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts) - A hairy man, woman and child in front of a cave

The Four Conditions of Society. You have to choose one.

1. L’Homme Riche ou La Noblesse (The Rich Man or Nobility)
2. L’Homme Misérable ou l’Etat de Pauvreté (The Wretched Man or the State of Poverty)
3. L’Artisan ou Le Travail (The Craftsman or Labor)
4. L’Homme Sauvage (The Wild Man)

Done.

A detail from the highlighted image: the middle finger in the book.

This gesture means: I am reading, f*ck off.

“Artistic nudity” is also a label but for whatever reason they didn’t choose that

These are all the people you see in the neighborhood

Nursing wild women are a natural part of life

@moderation.bsky.app if you really think this is sexually suggestive I’m concerned about you

L’Homme Riche Ou La Noblesse (The Rich Man or Nobility) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). Nobles in a fancy, well appointed home

L’Homme Misérable Ou l’Etat de Pauvreté (The Wretched Man or the State of Poverty) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). Ragged people in a battered bedroom

L’Artisan Ou Le Travail (The Craftsman or Labor), from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts). A man, woman, and child in a workshop

L’Homme Sauvage (The Wild Man) from Jean Bourdichon, Les Quatre Etats de la Société, c. 1500. (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts) - A hairy man, woman and child in front of a cave

The Four Conditions of Society. You have to choose one.

1. L’Homme Riche ou La Noblesse (The Rich Man or Nobility)
2. L’Homme Misérable ou l’Etat de Pauvreté (The Wretched Man or the State of Poverty)
3. L’Artisan ou Le Travail (The Craftsman or Labor)
4. L’Homme Sauvage (The Wild Man)

I've never seen a full study of it come across occasional mentions in travelers' journals and in accounts of Protestant artists active in Rome at that time. They generally had to keep very quiet and risked arrest or expulsion if they drew attention to themselves. Several artists I know of converted

An illusionistic painting of a cabinet containing a variety of birds, eggs, and nests.

Alexandre-Isidore Leroy de Barde (1777-1828), A Variety of Foreign Birds, 1.29 m x .9 m, gouache and watercolor (Musée du Louvre)

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

Netflix Italy Unveils 2026 Slate of 17 New Movies and Series Coming in 2026 New seasons of Suburra, My Family and The Law According to Lidia Poet headline the slate alongside new titles like Feel My Voice, Minerva Academy and more.

"When the director of Rome’s National Gallery is murdered and posed like a figure in an Artemisia Gentileschi painting, a sophisticated art expert (Spollon) and a working-class policeman (Lattanzi) must team up to solve the case." 😮

Don Quixote is led on horseback by an allegory of folly, into a landscape with windmill with characteristics of a giant and his beloved Dulcinea

Charles-Antoine Coypel, Don Quixote Led by Folly, oil on canvas, 1714-1734 (Musée national du château de Compiègne)

Sounds like a new nickname is in order

The whole story is recounted in the captions (and in Vasari)

'Federico Zuccaro vividly conveyed a sense of the studio assistant's material and psychological life in Renaissance Rome in this beautiful nocturnal scene. At the back of the room, the light of the fire shows the young Taddeo Zuccaro grinding colors while his employer's wife looks over her shoulder to check what he is doing. It is a cold evening, and she has removed her shoe to warm her foot before the open grate. A cat hovers near the fire too, curled up on the ledge above the woman's head. In order to prevent Taddeo from having bread, his employer the minor painter Calabrese kept it in a basket attached to the ceiling in the center of the room. He attached a bell to the pulley and rope so that it would ring every time the basket was lowered. Taddeo appears again at the front of the room, leaning against a low wall and holding an oil lamp so his master can examine a drawing. Calabrese glances up at his apprentice to make sure that he is not looking at the work by the revered artist Raphael, which he refused to allow Taddeo to copy. The inscription by Taddeo's pained face translates as, "Why do you deny me that which I love?"' -Getty https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108ET2

Federico Zuccaro, Taddeo in the House of Giovanni Piero Calabrese, about 1595, Pen and brown ink, 27.5 × 26.6 cm (10 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.), Getty, Los Angeles. Taddeo Zuccaro’s mean teacher keeps food suspended from the ceiling with a bell attached so none of the apprentices can steal it

In a rural landscape, a surgeon removes an object from the head of a man tied to a chair; as a monk and a nun watch https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-extraction-of-the-stone-of-madness/313db7a0-f9bf-49ad-a242-67e95b14c5a2

Have they tried this yet?

[Hieronymus Bosch, The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness), 1475-80, Oil on panel, 48 x 35 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)]

An intimate exhibit at Lewis & Clark College brings medieval manuscripts into the context of community • Oregon ArtsWatch "Shaping the Soul: Books in Medieval Life" runs through May 6 in the Watzek Library, with an opening reception Jan. 24.

"Shaping the Soul: Books in Medieval Life" at Lewis & Clark College in Portland #medievalsky

The title page of a book entitled "The Man in the Moone or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales"

The frontispiece of "The Man in the Moone or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales" showing mustachioed man with a ruff collar and hat flying toward the moon in wooden machine with a sail pulled by geese

"The Man in the Moone or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither” (1638), the supposed first-person account of one Domingo Gonsales’s trip to the moon with a goose-powered flying machine (in reality written by the English Bishop Francis Godwin)

An illusionistic cut-out painted figure of a Servant Woman peeling an Apple

A dummy board of figure of a Servant Woman peeling an Apple in 17th-century interior, next to a fireplace

A Figure of a Servant Woman peeling an Apple, Dutch, c. 1650-1675, Oil on wood, 1187 x 768 mm (West Hall, Dyrham Park, Bath). Dummy boards were illusionistic cut-out figures that often represented the inhabitants of the home, used as chimney boards, fire screens, or just for fun.