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-Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses-

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ST JEROME WRITING

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, c. 1607 – Oil on canvas, 117 x 157 cm, Oratory of St John the Baptist, St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta

THE BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, c. 1608 – Oil on Canvas, 520 x 360cm, Oratory of St John the Baptist, St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta

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Hey how about some ART TALK

Art history is a bit of a hobby of mine. Last weekend I went to the Frick in Pittsburgh because they had a special exhibition we wanted to see, and in the gift shop I picked up a book that told the story of a series of acknowledged masterpieces. The first one in the book is Birth of Venus, the second is Mona Lisa, and the scream I scrumpt when I turned the page to see the third:

Let me tell you about Artemisia Fucking Gentileschi.

She was a 17th century painter and one of the first women to be admitted to a Florentian art society and is widely regarded as one of the finest of the Italian baroque painters. She was raised by her father, who was also a painter who studied Caravaggio, and early in her career she had to put up with people saying that her paintings surely must have been painted by her father (despite her father himself saying she was a peerless artist and super accomplished).

As a young woman she was raped by a colleague of her father's. Her father sued the rapist because he hadn't married her (THIS was the crime, not the rape itself, of course) and Artemisia was tortured with thumbscrews to verify her testimony. Some of the...ahem...feelings about this entire episode definitely come through in her work.

Contrary to how these stories usually go, Artemisia had a long and productive career, was well paid for her work, enjoyed the patronage of the Medici family, and traveled widely. History, however, has only recently come to appreciate her and name her among the great painters of the period.

Let's talk about THIS FUCKING PAINTING, though. Judith Beheading Holofernes. Probably her most famous work.

The story is one of Judith, a Jewish woman, who got the general of the army about to invade her city to come have dinner with her, got him drunk, and chopped his head off. Then she paraded his head out to the army, like a boss. It's been painted a number of times but this one...this one really brings the rage. Look at Judith, the strength in her arms, how she's got a look of steely concentration. If you look closely, you can see she has her knee up on the bed behind him to get more leverage. Her maidservant is helping hold him down. Neither of them look horrified or hesitant, they're ready to cut this motherfucker. (also that's definitely Artemisia as Judith. She put herself in a lot of her paintings)

It's an apt interpretation of the verse from the Book of Judith, which is admiringly succinct:

Her sandal ravished his eye, Her beauty made captive his soul, The sword passed through his neck. — Book of Judith, 16:9[7]

It's got a real "the tiger is out" energy, right?

Now let's look at the same scene, painted by Caravaggio, who was no slouch at painting, but...come on.

Judith looks like a scared teenager. She's holding him at arm's length as if that's gonna work. Her maid is a crone, lurking at her shoulder like Wormtongue. This does not, imho, compare to the power of Gentileschi's version.

Artemisia painted another image of Judith holding the severed head. And a lot of other paintings. I'm just thrilled to see this one in this book, as it's one of my favorites. We have one of her paintings here in Columbus and I always visit it when I go (when it's up, that is).

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Is this aesthetic enough, tumblr?

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If this gets 100+ notes I’ll draw it digitally (it probably won’t) (not aesthetic enough)

this was a 1am doodle

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giving silco a boybortion and what comes out is a glob of writhing repulsive rotten black toxic sludge that glows purple. like it's alive but no one wants it to be. silco pulls his pants up, stubs out his cigar on it in your hands and walks away like it's a tuesday

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this might be my worst post yet

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at least you’re self aware

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what’s funny is most of my posts are like 20 notes each and if I occasionally post something that’s aesthetic enough or just fanart it gets a couple hundred notes lile damn ok

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my arcane oc for my arcane fanfic 🔥🔥🔥

I miss my wife, tails

these are so bad and there is no colour so I will OROBABLY make a digital version of her too :3

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idk whag to caption this

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Okay so I drew the Vivienne Westwood girlkissers (reference pic below the cut)

it didn’t turn out as good as I’d hoped but this is the first time I drew people kissing so

i might redraw this in the future

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Eyes!

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Flower doodles!

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fabric studies! They’re kind of shit but at least I tried

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Piece I did for my friends competition :P

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shitty silicone doodle

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Very nice works! You do requests?

Tysm! yes, I do! Unless it really inspires me they’re usually quick sketches with not too much detail since they’re just requests, and not actual commissions. But if anyone wants to send a request feel free to do so! I currently have exams so I’m super busy but I’ll probably get around to them eventually.