#baroque art

[xvarenah777]

Carved wood, golden patinas, and sacred fragments

[yuggothic]

Chinese Cup with Figs, Cherries and Goldfinch (c. 1655–62), Giovanna Garzoni. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

[chaotic-anthology]

Caravaggio - Medusa (c. 1597)

[chaotic-anthology]

Caravaggio - Judith Beheading Holofernes (1599)

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Don Juan José of Austria on Horseback

Artist: José de-el Españoleto-Rivera (Jusepe de Rivera, Spanish, 1591-1652)

Date: 1648

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: La Galería de las Colecciones Reales, Madrid, Spain

John Joseph of Austria

John of Austria (1629-1679) was the son of Philip IV and the celebrated Madrid actress María Inés Calderón, known as La Calderona. Recognized by his father in 1642, he was given a household as an Infante of Spain and, the following year, appointed governor and captain-general of the Provinces of Flanders. In March 1647, the king granted him the title of "Prince of the Ocean Sea," which entailed command of the naval forces.

[annemarieyeretzian]

The Entombment by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1612

[velvetmystiqueart]

RED FOX ──────────────────────────────── The chandelier has watched this room change hands for three generations. He arrived one evening, settled onto the mantel shelf, and simply never left.

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[velvetmystiqueart]

BLACK CAT ──────────────────────────────── The skull on the mantel has seen every visitor this room has ever had. It has never once told the cat's secrets. It never will.