A comic strip showing the “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) making coffee in a moka pot
In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti
PPS: not made up!
A photo of a priest in front of a giant Moka pot
Important post script: after his death, Renato Bialetti was cremated and buried in a giant Moka pot
A comic strip showing the “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) making coffee in a moka pot
In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti
A young man with flowing hair and an exposed shoulder sleeps in the foreground with a telescope in his lap. Behind him is a landscape and a crescent moon in the sky
The mythological shepherd Endymion was loved by Selene, the goddess of the moon, who observed him as he slept. Here Guercino portrays holding a relatively new invention, the telescope as he sleeps, which allows him to observe the movements of the moon (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
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There still seems to be a paywall 🤔
What part of "too sexy for Bluesky" is so hard to understand??
@moderation.bsky.app finds this painting, once owned by Queen Henrietta Maria of England, too "sexually suggestive." (I secretly suspect Oliver Cromwell works at Bluesky)
Amazing. And so early!
I didn't know about the Arlene Schnitzer-Robert Colescott connection!
The circle of death is:
Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.
My Spanish father-in-law's take on the Rothko exhibit we just saw: “See? He smoked too!”
Potiphar's wife, semi-undressed, leans across a sumptuous bed, holding Joseph's cloak, while he walk away, set in a strange stage-like space https://www.rct.uk/collection/405477/joseph-and-potiphars-wife
Orazio Gentileschi, Joseph and Potiphar's wife c. 1630-2, Oil on canvas, 206.0 x 261.9 cm (Royal Collection, Windsor)
oh man
JD Vance is doing great
Today is the official publication day for my new book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art. It is out in the world, and I would like to thank @yalepress.bsky.social for all they did. I’d also like to tell you a bit about why this publication means so much.
Cover of "Barbara Strozzi in Context" by Beth Glixon and Wendy Heller
Pleased to say that this volume on 17th-century composer and singer Barbara Strozzi and her world, “Barbara Strozzi in Context,” is finally out. I have a small essay in it, “Artemisia Gentileschi, Padovanino, and the Venetian Academies”
www.cambridge.org/us/universit... #musichistory #earlymodern
Best I could find is: "Su reapertura está prevista a lo largo de 2026." So sometime in 2026?
A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.
* ha ha ha ha *
The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!
"While some paintings of artists in their studios depict the moment before work begins or give a glimpse midway through the process, this picture shows a triumphant completion. Holding her palette, brushes, and a mahl stick, used to steady the painter’s arm, Schalcken looks out at us and points at her creation. This painting was once attributed to her brother and teacher, Godfried. But a cleaning revealed Maria’s signature in the upper left corner—making it clear that the picture is a self-portrait. This is one of only two known paintings by the artist." https://collections.mfa.org/objects/549580/selfportrait-in-her-studio?ctx=a825a090-74d4-4e9b-bfa5-5731d1426cc5&idx=4
Maria Schalcken, Self-Portrait in Her Studio, Oil on panel, 44.1 x 34.3 cm (17 3/8 x 13 1/2 in.), Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Honestly if he keeps his wallet there, he's kind of inviting it
Isenheim Altarpiece (open): center panel (detail): strange, multicolored angels adoring baby Jesus
B-movie aliens or angels by Grünewald?
A nineteenth-century postcard of the Porto di Ripetta, one of the main ports on the Tiber River until its demolition in the 1870s
Porto di Ripetta, Rome, 1878. Built in 1704 near the current location of the Ara Pacis, the port was demolished in the 1870s to build the embankments that prevent the Tiber from flooding
not fascisty enough
The book I’m writing right now is on objects in Italian baroque artists’ inventories
Cover of De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer: Huisraad als schildersmodel by Alexandra van Dongen
So excited about this new book, De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer: Huisraad als schildersmodel ("The Tangible World of Johannes Vermeer: Household Objects as Painters' Models") by Alexandra van Dongen that I guess I need to learn Dutch!
