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🎨 The Fortune Teller (c.1597)
Louvre, Paris
We see the theft. He does not.
Caravaggio flips the power dynamic: male vulnerability, female control.
The real illusion isn’t the trick, it’s our belief we’re detached observers.
#PowerAndGaze #GenderInArt #VisualDeception #BaroquePainting
Two light-skinned women appear at a rectangular window opening, as if you’re standing just outside the ledge. On the right, a younger woman leans forward with her left forearm stretched along the sill as her right elbow bends so her fist props her chin. She looks directly outward with a small, knowing smile. Her chestnut-brown hair is tied with a red ribbon, and she wears a soft white dress with a wide neckline and the sleeves pushed back to her elbows, exposing her forearms. On the left, a possibly older woman peeks from behind a partially opened shutter. A creamy white shawl covers her hair, and she lifts it to hide the lower half of her face, as if stifling laughter. Behind them, the interior is deep shadow, making their faces and white fabric feel close, vivid, and life-sized. Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo builds the scene on tension via openness versus concealment and invitation versus discretion. The older figure’s covered smile matches period ideas of decorum (especially for women of status) while the younger woman’s direct gaze feels unusually candid. Because their identities are unknown, the picture resists a single reading. Some viewers have imagined a chaperone guarding a young woman’s public appearance while others have viewed the window as a threshold of commerce and flirtation. Murillo heightens that uncertainty by turning the window into a painted frame-within-a-frame, borrowing from Dutch “eye-deceiving” devices that make us feel addressed. Painted in 17th-century Seville, where Murillo was celebrated for both devotional works and scenes of everyday life, this small moment feels like a study in how women are seen and how they choose to look back.
“Dos mujeres en una ventana (Two Women at a Window)” by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1655–1660 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #BartoloméEstebanMurillo #Murillo #NationalGalleryofArt #NGA #SpanishBaroque #BaroquePainting #SpanishArt #arte #artText
French painter Philippe de Champaigne. A major exponent of French Baroque painting, he was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
The Dream of St Joseph, 1692-3
(The National Gallery, London)
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📖 A must-read for anyone interested in early modern art, women artists, or the global Baroque.
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Baroque Hunks
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This masterfully rendered scene depics a card game between three players and a maid serving wine. The young man on the right, obviously a person of means, sits innocently as the man on the left attempts to fleece him – notice he's holding the Ace of Diamonds behind his back). Both women, judging by their eyes, are in on the scheme.
Georges de La Tour (French, 1593-1652) • Tricheur à l'as de carreau (The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds) • 1635 • Musée du Louvre (see ALT rtext)
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. She was influenced by Caravaggio and her paintings often featured women in mythical or biblical scenes. This self-portrait shows her in 17th century dress, one hand holding a palette, the other a paintbrush.
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.
Artemisia Gentileschi.
1638-1639. Royal Collection. London, UK.
#art #arthistory #painting #ItalianBaroque #Baroque #Baroquepainting #womenartists #WomensHistoryMonth
I'm on a Rembrandt spree! Was there ever a master who painted more beautifully? This portrait of the artist's wife, Saskia is sublime. Saskia's expression reveals a poised, intelligent, and proud young woman; qualities that Rembrandt no doubt admired in her.
Rembrandt (1606–1669) • Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) • c. 1633-1634 • Oil on oakwood • Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kessel, Germany
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#Vermeer #JohannesVermeer #DutchGoldenAge #TimelessArt #Masterpiece #BaroquePainting
✨ Step into the mesmerizing light of Vermeer, the master of intimacy and mystery.
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"Birth of Venus", Sandro Botticelli, mid-1480s
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"A Wicker Basket with Flowers", Juan de Arrellano, 17th Century
Still doing master copies. This is a baroque still life. Crazy trying to copy it. Learned a lot.
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Judith and Holofernes Jan de Bray, 1659 Dimensions: depth 7 cm, height 40 cm x width 32.5 cm. Subject: Holofernes drinks too much, and falls asleep on the bed. #arthistory #baroquepainting #masterpiece #jandebray #biblicalart #classicalart #museumcollection #art #artinspiration #history
Judith and Holofernes
Jan de Bray, 1659
Dimensions: depth 7 cm, height 40 cm x width 32.5 cm.
Subject: Holofernes drinks too much, and falls asleep on the bed.
#arthistory #baroquepainting
#masterpiece #jandebray
#biblicalart #classicalart
#museumcollection #art
#artinspiration #history
A painting of a pot with pasta and a basket of toilet rolls.
"Baroque and Roll" A piece I painted during Covid, when all the toilet paper, hand clenser and pasta disappeared from the grocery store shelves due to panic buying. Sold before I could take a better pic. #baroquepainting #oilpainting #realism #covid #art
