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These striking #Roman snake bracelets are in the care of the #WaltersArtMuseum. They are made of #gold & date to 1AD. Snakes were popular themes, particularly for rings & bracelets, which were often worn in pairs. Snakes were thought to guard against evil & symbolized fertility.
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A young woman with light, peach-toned skin stands in three-quarter profile, torso angled toward us while her face turns beyond the right edge, as if listening offstage. Her dark hair is swept into an updo; a beaded golden hoop earring catches the light. Over a pink dress that clings at the bodice and loosens into rippling folds at her waist, she wears a short, elaborately embroidered bolero lined in red satin, its matador-like cut evoking Spanish performance dress. She rests the guitar’s body on her thigh and lightly grips the headstock with elongated fingers; a gemstone ring flashes on her left hand. Brushstrokes churn around her in ochres, warm grays, and rose, while a bubble-like “LV” monogram hovers at the upper right. Boldini painted this intimate figure soon after settling in Paris, when he was exploring how meticulous detail could dance with sweeping brushwork. In 1876, critic Diego Martelli called Boldini “a mass of looseness and finish, of false and of true,” urging viewers to take the painter on his own terms. Boldini’s ability with microscopic qualities and agile brushwork are seen in the jeweled ring, earring, and crisp jacket seams that punctuate a field of vibrating paint. The chaquetilla-style jacket and guitar nod to the 19th-century European fascination with Spain (especially flamenco’s singing and dance). Yet the props likely came from Boldini’s own studio wardrobe, part of the staged theatricality he, Meissonier, and Fortuny cultivated with models and costumes. The floating “LV” monogram functions like the stamps and cartouches of ukiyo-e prints then flooding Paris, a device Boldini adopts to keep one element consciously “above” the image. Though the figure’s décolleté signals the era’s taste for erotically charged studio subjects, her turned head also resists capture, suspending her between performance and private focus. Boldini presents music imagined through paint, presence built from gesture, and identity staged, but never fully fixed.
“Lady with a Guitar” by Giovanni Boldini (Italian) - Oil on panel / c. 1873 - The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Maryland) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #GiovanniBoldini #Boldini #WaltersArtMuseum #TheWalters #pink #portraitofawoman #BlueskyArt #OilPainting #ItalianArtist #1870s #MuseumArt
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#SpiralStairwellPano #DigitallyStitched #Blue-ish #BaltimoreMD
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Book with beautiful illustrations that use white lead in the pigment.
Medieval text with mercury in the pigment.
Thai book that is beautiful but entirely poisonous from start to finish.
Yes, I did arrange my trip to Malice Domestic so I could see the If Books Could Kill at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Beautiful but Deadly! #books #poison #poisonbooks #baltimore #waltersartmuseum #musuem
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Franz von #Lenbach (1836-1904)
Portrait of #OttovonBismarck (1815-98), Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, who was #BornOnThisDay
1890
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Ceremonial Digging Stick with Carved Warriors, Chancay, Peru, 1000-1450, wood.
Featured in "The Spirit Within/Art and Life in Latin America"
#artbooks #LatinAmerica #artefacts @consortiumbooks.bsky.social #diggingstick #WaltersArtMuseum #Archaeology #Art
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Four-Cornered Hat, Wari, Peru, 600-900, camelid fibers.
Featured in "The Spirit Within / El espíritu inherente Art and Life in Latin America / Arte y vida en Latinoamérica" #artbooks #LatinAmerica #artefacts #WaltersMuseum #WaltersArtMuseum
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In the first half of the 1800s, English artists visited India to paint both large-scale and miniature portraits as mementos for friends and families back in the “Mother Country.” They introduced the European technique of painting in watercolors on ivory to the local artists. In this beautiful instance, a local artist from Delhi has portrayed a courtesan dressed as a princess wearing elaborate Mughal gold and gem-set jewelry. It’s a lovely example of Mughal-style miniature painting depicting the dark hair, dark eyes, and fair skin beauty in a long, flowing gold-toned “dupatta” (veil or shawl) with intricate detailing draped over her head and shoulders, partially obscuring her vibrant long “churidar” (tight-fitting trousers) and a “kurta” (long tunic) with a patterned skirt or “ghagra.” The colors are rich, with gold, reds, blues, and greens. She is adorned with numerous pieces of exquisite jewelry including pearl necklaces with gemstone accents, heavy earrings that dangle with gemstones, bangles and heavier jeweled bracelets, and other small jeweled ornaments. The overall impression is one of elegance, wealth, and sophistication conveying court life in the Mughal Empire of the early 19th century.
Portrait Miniature of an Indian Courtesan by Unkown Indian artist - Watercolor on ivory, gold, & glass / 1830-1850 - Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Maryland) #womeninart #art #portrait #IndianArt #artwork #MiniatureArt #WaltersArtMuseum #watercolor #painting #bskyart #womensart #portraitofawoman
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#Llama Effigy.
#Chancay, #Peru. 1000-14700.
#Earthenware, slip paint.
Featured in "The Spirit Within / El espíritu inherente
Art and Life in Latin America / Arte y vida en Latinoamérica". Publishing in April with #WaltersArtMuseum
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A nearly identical statuette - also found in Egypt - can be found at the #WaltersArtMuseum in Baltimore, MD. Their curators prefer the explanation that it represents a personification/genius or deity of the Roman empire's eastern provinces, perhaps Armenia. Were they originally a pair? 🏺 2/
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“Elephants in Water.” Antoine-Louis Barye (French; 1795–1875). Watercolor on rough, moderately thick, cream wove paper, ca. 1850. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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“Power of Music.” Louis Gallait (Belgian; 1810–1887). Oil on wood (mahogany) panel, ca. 1852. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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“Power of Music.” Louis Gallait (Belgian; 1810–1887). Oil on wood (mahogany) panel, ca. 1852. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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“Power of Music.” Louis Gallait (Belgian; 1810–1887). Oil on wood (mahogany) panel, ca. 1852. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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“View of Lake Geneva.” Gustave Courbet (French; 1819–1877), follower of. Oil on canvas, before 1881. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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“View of Lake Geneva.” Gustave Courbet (French; 1819–1877), follower of. Oil on canvas, before 1881. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Cuneiform. #cuneiform #cuneiformwriting #ancientwriting #mesopotamia #babylon #babylonian #waltersar...
Cuneiform. #cuneiform #cuneiformwriting #ancientwriting #mesopotamia #babylon #babylonian #waltersartmuseum #baltimore #iphoneonly #amaro
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Livia and Augustus. #augustus #augustuscaesar #roman #romanempire #romanemperor #emperor #imperator ...
Livia and Augustus. #augustus #augustuscaesar #roman #romanempire #romanemperor #emperor #imperator #empress #livia #caesar #hailcaesar #aveimperator #baltimore #waltersartmuseum #iphoneonly #sutro
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