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#baroque

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Still Life with Flowers," Rachel Ruysch, 18th century.

I've talked about Ruysch before, but to recap quickly, she was the best-documented woman painter of her time, with an enormously successful career, getting commissions from many wealthy and influential clients. Poets wrote elegies in honor of her death in 1750, and despite the fact that she specialized in florals, her work was highly praised and fetched high prices after her passing; she even outsold Rembrandt!

The daughter of a scientist and professor of botany, Ruysch depicted plants and flowers with meticulous detail, developing her own style that straddled the line between Baroque and Rococo. Even today, she is regarded as one of the most talented still life artists of all time, bar none.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm.

A Baroque painting of a bouquet of flowers, on a marble tabletop; they sit in a vase or urn that is not visible. The flowers, painstakingly done in great detail, include tulips, carnations, marigolds, dandelions in the puff stage, and others. This is evidently a work of fantasy as the flowers are not ones that would be in bloom at the same time.
#Art#DutchArt#WomanArtists
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Brad

#Introduction

Hi there 👋,

I'm Brad, I'm new to Chinwag, but not new to fedi (been here since late 2018).

I'm keen to chat about music, it was a huge part of my life way back when I studied it at uni. I'll give almost anything a good listen but genres I've spent the most time with might be: #Jazz (#HardBop, #PostBop, #FreeJazz), #ClassicalMusic (#ChamberMusic, #Orchestral, #Baroque), #Rock (#AlternativeRock, #PowerPop, #NewWave, #ProtoPunk, #ElectronicRock).

I'm very keen to learn whatever I can from folks who're into the earth and life sciences. #Geology, #Biology, #MolecularBiology, #PrebioticChemistry.

Cheers.

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Bacchanal (Triumph of Bacchus)," Michaelina Wautier, before 1659.

Wautier (1604-1689) suffered the fate that too many female artists have suffered; her work was attributed to men. It's only in the last 20 years that she's been recognized as a significant artist of the Baroque period.

Little is known of her life; her brother Charles was also a painter, but where they received training is unknown. She painted many different subjects in different genres at a time when women artists normally stuck to portraits and still lifes.

This canvas, regarded as her masterpiece, is also unusual in that we have a naked male body painted by a woman (in fact, Bacchus' groin is the center of the painting) and lady on the right is a self-portrait, uninvolved in the action, looking out at us serenely. A daring work for the time!

And for some of us....a preview of Thanksgiving....

From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

A Baroque painting. The drunken god Bacchus is being carried in a cart by two fauns, and a third is dripping grape juice into his mouth. Assorted others surround him, and a single female looks out at the viewer with a light Grecian garment, an exposed breast, and carrying a thyrsus, which identifies her either as Ariadne or as a bacchante.
#Art#DutchArt#Baroque
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Corriere.it - Homepage by di Laura Martellini
Fontana di Trevi e Giubileo 2025, Gualtieri: «Numero chiuso, nessun tornello»

Il sindaco ha svolto un sopralluogo al cantiere per la ripulitura del monumento barocco. Fra un mese si accederà attraverso una passerella

Translated:
Trevi Fountain and Jubilee 2025, Gualtieri: «Closed number, no turnstiles».

The mayor carried out an inspection at the construction site for the cleaning of the Baroque monument. In a month, access will be granted through a walkway.

#TreviFountain #Gualtieri #Mayor #Baroque
roma.corriere.it/notizie/crona

Corriere della Sera · Fontana di Trevi e Giubileo 2025, Gualtieri: «Numero chiuso, niente tornelli. Basterà un cordone gestito dal personale»By Laura Martellini
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