#arthist

[glykophilousa]

Saint Sebastian, limewood, ca. 1450, unknown artist, Lower Franconia.

[angelicxi]

          art history meme:  six artists           François Boucher (4 / 6)

          François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French Rococo artist who worked as a painter, draughtsman and etcher. Known best for his idyllic, voluptuous renditions of classical themes and soft, pastoral tableaux, he stands as perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century. His works hold a subtle, tasteful eroticism that made him highly sought after among the nobility; Madame de Pompadour was especially enamored with his work. He also worked in theatre, designing numerous costumes and set pieces, most of them for Charles Simon Favart’s plays. Over a two decade period, he produced six tapestry designs for the Beauvais Manufactory.

[glykophilousa]

was walking through the museum with a friend when we passed a 15th cent tuscan painting of david standing over goliath's head. it's blatantly homoerotic of course, but i thought this one was funny because it's got slender boyish victorious david with goliath's head between his feet, face angled up under david's skirt and a blissed out expression on it.

so i was like 'haha wonder which rich florentine geezer liked getting pissed on by young boys so much he had this made' and my friend was sooo scandalised?? absolutely clutching her pearls. she said i was being "weird" and just "seeing what i wanted to see".

ive been in my little bubble of (art) historians and italians for too long. went and forgot there's people for whom the twink obsessed nature of the inventors of the european renaissance does not go without saying. many don't know about all the other davids. the humanities really are brutally thankless work 🫩 anyway, painting's under the cut

del pollaiolo

[glykophilousa]

let's hold hands and pray for humankind with beautiful radiant mama

[angelicxi]

          art history meme:  nine colors           →   BLACK   ( 2  /  9 )           Black is the color of power, formality, and death. Deeply associated with evil, mystery, and everything pertaining to the occult, it is by far the most imposing of colors. The psychology of it implies authority, strength, and dominance. In visual arts, it is often used to make other colors stand out — when mixed with bright, warm colors, it can make for very aggressive color schemes.

[glykophilousa]

oh, female saint with a book from the workshop of riemenschneider, we're really in it now

[glykophilousa]

[glykophilousa]