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[Tweet by @medievalpoc reads: People of color are not an anachronism. Art history can be a mirror for everyone, you just have to keep looking.

Portrait of a Young Woman, form. att. Jean-Etienne Liotard. | Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer.]

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Almost forgot I wanted to post this March doodle request sooner rather than later~ A patron requested some of the guys from Black Panther, so I drew the AU where Erik gets to grow up in Wakanda with his family ;w;

Also imagining Erik tries to get them all into Dragonball and Naruto and Shuri is like “this is neat but why aren’t there more girls in the fights” and T’challa is just like “????? I don’t understand any of what I’m seeing”

I drew inspiration from murals in Oakland for the background; 3rd one down is my particular ref: https://www.visitoakland.com/blog/post/the-most-hella-awesome-oakland-street-murals-part-1/

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Peter Paul Rubens

Four Studies of a Male Head

Netherlands (c. 1617-19)

Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 51 x 66 cm.

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

These are by far the best photographs I have seen on this work, and we all owe a debt to the photographer. Four Studies is one of Ruben’s most popular pieces, despite the fact that it’s not one of his monumental works (some of which I have had the delight of seeing in person, and they are distinctively massive).

Studies like this one were usually meant to serve as reference in the creation those larger compositions, which would usually depict scenes from the Christian bible, Greek or roman mythology, or historical scenes of battles, monarchs, or other notable events.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Drunken Silenus

Netherlands (1616)

Oil on wood, 212 x 214.5 cm.

Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

I think we all need to take a moment to appreciate just how INCREDIBLY upset this painting and Ruben’s apparent love for it have made the curator at wga.hu:

In Greek mythology Silenus is a rural god, one of the retinue of Bacchus, a gay, fat old drunkard who was yet wise and had the gift of prophecy.

In Rubens’ painting he is shown drunkenly tottering, his belly swollen with meat and drink, and supported by a disparate collection of dotards, drunkards, blacks, children and young women. The careless inebriation of this bacchanal is expressed by a thicker touch that conveys the unwieldy weight of the drinkers’ gait.

The composition was originally conceived with half-length figures, but was later enlarged by Rubens himself. The painting hung in Rubens’ house.

Ha ha ha ha ha…my goodness. There is only a single Black man in this painting, but perhaps the incredible force with which he is pinching Silenus’s “gay, fat old drunk[ard]” ass* is enough to chagrin this curator into thinking there must be somehow more than one?

Apparently the thought of Rubens staring at this piece and smiling every morning while eating his breakfast sausage was just too much for some people.

As you may have noticed by now, Rubens adored drawing and painting Black people and included them in many, many of his paintings, as well as having done studies, portraits, sketches, and other works of art used for his workshop and apprentices. Many of his works he kept for himself in his personal collection.

*The pinch is actually an important part of the original story: Silenus is awakened from a drunken stupor and bound with his own garlands by nymphs and satyrs and made to sing a song of creation and the forces of nature for an important ceremonial dance.