#Baroque

[paintings-from-the-past]

Portrait of Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino (1606) by Peter Paul Rubens

[art-history-nerds]

Musical Allegory (1626) by Rembrandt

[art-from-another-time]

Holy Family with Elizabeth and Child John the Baptist (1615) by Jacob Jordaens

[useless-catalanfacts]

Xaver Eckert playing the psaltery. Video by Associació Estudi del Moble.

The psaltery was a very popular instrument in South-Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, usually played by women. All bourgeois families tended to have a psaltery. They were often beautifully decorated and came in a case that was often also decorated.

Psalteries were very popular in Catalonia, the Valencian Country, and Italy. Below, you can see psalteries from 18th-century Catalonia, some of them inside their case, plus the last photo which is a psaltery from València. Click to see the image in high quality.

Source: Catàleg d'Instruments de Catalunya / Museu de la Música. More info from Museu de la Música (Barcelona).

[classic-art-favourites]

Musical Feast Given by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld in the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1747 on the Occasion of the Marriage of Dauphin, Son of Louis XV by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1747.

[periodinteriors]

Anton Hallmann, Interior View of the Basilica Santa Maggiore, Rome, 1833, watercolor.

[baroque-art-history]

A Witch with Cupids (1598) by Adam Elsheimer

[messrchase]

The palace at Kirschbaum. I could never work out the floor plan for this one but...I have! Not upset with the outcome.

[revivalofadornment]

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[paintings-from-the-past]

The Lamentation (1606) by Peter Paul Rubens

[art-history-nerds]

Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple (1626) by Rembrandt

[art-from-another-time]

Abduction of Europa (1615) by Jacob Jordaens

[spitblaze]

finally some realism in video games

[useless-catalanfacts]

Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

[bebs-art-gallery]

Female Rage in Paintings

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio | Jael and Sisera by Alessandro Turchi | Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Louis Finson | Jael slays Sisera by Ottavio Vannini | Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Orazio Gentileschi | La Douce Résistance by Michel Garnier | Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great by Elisabetti Sirani | Untitled by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal | Salome Bearing the Head of Saint John the Baptist by an unknown copyist after c. 1631, originated from Guido Reni