#baroqe

[philoursmars]

Marseille. A la Vieille-Charité, une expo "Panoramas" faisant le tour de la variété des musées de la ville (d'où cet aspect disparate, mais très plaisant)

reliquaire d'ibis - Tounah-el-Gebel - Epoque Ptolémaïque

Utagawa Hiroshige - "Les 53 relais du Tôkaidô ; le 44ème relais, Yokkachi"

Roger Broders - "Marseille, Porte de l'Afrique du Nord"

Utagawa Hiroshige - "Les 53 relais du Tôkaidô ; le 18ème relais, Okitsu"

Pierre Puget - "Vaisseaux dans la rade de Marseille"

Utagawa Hiroshige - "Les 53 relais du Tôkaidô ; les 2ème relais, Odawara"

bouclier de "ta'zieh", théâtre religieux d'époque Qadjar - Iran, XIXe s.

[tastycitrus]

funny: INT maplestory classes are physically weak and pathetic because they don’t lift

funnier: actually all maplestory player characters are swole because they do physically intensive things like climb rope ladders, carry heavy objects, etc. all the time

funniest: pretty much everyone in the Maple Alliance is swole except for neinheart, who’s a twig

[tastycitrus]

Neinheart: Alright, knight, your first mission will be— *he stops short upon seeing level 260+ Dawn Warrior* Neinheart: Dawn Warrior: Dawn Warrior, sweating: The remaster reset my story quest progress and I never bothered to replay it until now because I need to complete it for the artifact mission, okay?

[mybeingthere]

A recent book by Eric Ghysels' wonderful 5 Continents Editions - "Hidden Portraits, Volker Hermes Reimagines Historical Figures in Overwhelming Frippery"

"Whimsical, Surreal & Insightful: The Masked Portraits of Volker Hermes Breathe New Life into Classical Portraiture."

Article by Eric David

Apart from a few iconic paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Girl with the Pearl Earring, European portraiture during the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical periods is side-lined by narrative and genre painting whose subject matter is by nature much more compelling compared with the representation of a privileged elite – in other words, those who could actually afford to have their portrait painted. For most people, classical portraits of duchesses, marquises and other prominent people are different versions of the same parochial expression of vanity. Düsseldorf-based German painter Volker Hermes begs to differ. Based on famous Old Masters paintings, Hermes’ “Hidden Portraits” series of digitally-created photo-collages boldly highlights the intricate symbols of self-representation and social status embedded into such paintings.

From ostentatious ruffs, to richly embroidered trims, to elaborate headgear, Hermes masterfully manipulates elements found in the paintings to conceal the sitter’s identity in order to draw attention to their attire and pose, and reveal their connections with concepts of identity, gender and social status. As surreal as his masked portraits are, they look as if they were painted by the original artist, which is all the more impressive considering he’s a self-taught Photoshop user. In what started as a personal side project ten years ago, the series has since been thrust into the limelight during the pandemic as it evocatively captures the surreal mask-wearing reality we have all been living in. With masks suddenly becoming an integral part of our self-representation, and even acquiring cultural and political connotations, Hermes’ masked portraits are as timely as ever as but they also draw parallels between the coded messages of classical portraiture and the semiotics of the most contemporary of self-representation forms, selfies. Yatzer recently caught up with the artist to talk about his project, his passion for historical portraits and his relationship with social media.

Read more https://www.yatzer.com/volker-hermes-hidden-portraits

[deadbaguette]

hello!!!! I’m doing a poll for an essay I’m writing, do you think you could share it please? I’m trying to figure out the general ethical opinion on whether or not a chosen one must help.

(if you don’t want to share that’s fine with me, just thought I’d ask since you’re one of my more popular moots) <3

(separately)

what’s your favorite art era? I like neoclassical:)

Sure! I don’t think of myself as popular though or at least have difficulty thinking of it like that AHSGDGSH,, I’ve been on tumblr for years and only recently started gaining traction lmao

And my favourite art period auuuughh that’s a hard one?? Neoclassical and the romanticism periods have some beautiful paintings. I’m a big fan of Art Nouveau even if I don’t draw much inspiration from it in my style (it’s a skill issue on my part LOL). And then ofc the renaissance and baroq periods have some of my favourite paintings so there’s always that

[dr-george-ordell]

ROTTEN LIKE SUGAR-COATED TEETH

Aaron would never live his dirty little secret down if it ever got out.

He shuddered under his breath as the rough hands of the other man gently massaged him, large fingers pressing and applying a soothing amount of pressure upon his clothed back, creeping lower and lower. Aaron let out a low whine at this, squirming upon the satin sheets that he sat on.

"Not today Jack. I'm frankly exhausted." Aaron murmured out closing his eyes as the tension from his shoulder leaked out.

A voice from behind hummed. "Alright, my darling." The other man replied in a baritone rumble, hands travelling back up to undo the knots within his shoulder.

Aaron audibly swallowed, a heat glazing across his face at the sensation of feeling the light breath of vanilla upon the nape of his neck.

He missed that smell, having been cooped up in the quite dingy underground site-one, meeting barely any sunlight (probably non at all with how he was hunched over his computer for most of that time) and having no social interaction at all. Maybe with the guards perhaps, or other council members, but they all seemed to just eventually mould together into an amalgamation in his mind.

It was a morbid thought. But it didn't belong in the same place as the rich baroqe decor and mahogany furniture of the room. His thoughts were often unclean, unable to be rid of any kind of grey, gloomy glumness. But temporarily, he would put it in a box, lock away as the older man utterly spoiled him rotten.

New clothes? Aaron was bought the best one on demand, anomalous or not, even if he himself could easily order new ones with the click of his thumb. New jewellery he was eyeing up? Jack adorned him with twice the frilly and ornamental things, glittering rubies and glistening emeralds neatly placed upon him, as if he were a doll.

He was eyecandy, to be observed, praised, admired, quite literally sometime whenever Jack decided to paint him.

His jaw clenched in tension at particular memories, the other man's hand moving up and down his limbs, guiding him gently into certain poses. Always asking for permission to touch him when moving Aaron around to act as a pose model. Being so sickly sweet towards him with loving adoration, that Aaron found it more capitulating than the quite obviously dirty things Jack said to purposefully rile him up.

"Is it okay for me to touch you here? I need your words darling. Ah, thank you, your so pleasantly obedient, so good for me."

Aaron nervously crossed his legs at the memory of that certain painting. He had been wearing a rather gaudy eighteenth-century guard's costume that day. It was absolutely torturous to hear the thinly veiled flirting and the smooth, warm fingers just trailing above a layer of several clothes, seperating bare skin from the other.

He just hoped though that the council wouldn't find said oil paintings if Jack ever auctioned them off.

It'd be dastardly evil of that bastard to even attempt to do that anyways, as Aaron wouldn't be able to look at anyone in the eye if they found out the rather scandalous backstory that led to those hauntingly beautiful, eerie portraits.

[ricegay]

tagged by @snoopyist to post 5 songs on repeat lately!! (thanks for tagging me 🫶)

tagging most recent mutuals in my notes :P @firstluvlatespring @serpentgirls @matchas @baroqe @babygingerspice

[kalpasoft]

Extending my congrats bc I watched a video on Baroqe the other day and the video maker plugged your game at the end as something he was excitedly keeping an eye on for a contemporary game of the same vibe.

And I had a whole Moment going :0 and pointing at the screen like 'hey wait i've been following that dev for a couple months now' cuz i saw some of your art of different Fae characters and fell in love immediately.

Anyway yeah. People are into what you're doing over here and more people might have their attention turned to it now too.

I saw! It was so surreal seeing my game in action on such a popular page. It's a feeling I haven't felt since the markiplier video honestly

Thank you for the support! I'm glad you liked the Fae. They have been some of my favorites sprites I've done lately.

[kithes]

lockscreen, last song played, and last photo saved

ty for tagging me @girleraser @tofusoups !! <3 these are always so fun ^^

tagging @htftlah @kohoa @star99 @fingertips @cariyo @baroqe @walkwithmegirl @dlnqnt and anyone who wants to !! <33

[brumaire18]

Open window (Baroq 1708)

Prague, 29.3.2024

[sallandtr]

Hafifliğiyle ve rahatlığıyla öne çıkan BAROQ kumaş Seçkin deseniyle zerafetinize zerafet katacak #desenlişal (Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7q1JmsjwF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zhuhongs]

🦇

hey iman!! axolotl and my fav piece from lacma last time. completely forgot the name tho TT

[madame-yus-wife]

Arsace (Andreas Scholl)

Act 1

From the 2008 Decca DVD of GF Händel’s “Partenope” at the Royal Danish Theater.