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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker

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Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth, a dash of film noir.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13d

It’s October, which is an excuse to spend the month posting the scariest, strangest, and most disconcerting images from the history of art. I’ve accumulated quite a collection, so apologies in advance for all the spooky content I won't be able to resist sharing. 🎃

Trophime Bigot, The Screaming Man, 1625, oil on canvas. Canvas, 79 x 100 cm Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. A man in 17th-century costume and holding a paper lantern screams, surprised by a carved jack-o'-lantern behind him. Another man concealed behind him smiles

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 6h

Armed federal agents want you to believe they were assaulted by a mom dressed as a banana playing the Ghostbusters theme on the clarinet

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15h

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Witches' Flight, 1798, Oil on canvas, 43.5 cm x 30.5 cm (Museo del Prado)

"Three bare-chested characters wearing dunce caps hold a fourth, nude character in the air while another lies on the floor, covering his ears, A sixth figure flees, his head covered with a white cloth. With his hand, he makes the gesture intended to protect him from the evil eye. At the right of the scene, a donkey stands out against the neutral background. This was one of six canvases Goya sold to the Duke and Duchess of Osuna in 1798, as decoration for their country house in La Alameda. They are linked to the etchings from his Caprichos series, in which he presented scenes of witches and witchcraft similar to this one. This painting was acquired by the Prado Museum in 1999 with funds from the Villaescusa legacy." -Museo del Prado https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/witches-flight/5e44d19d-7cda-472b-b6d8-8868c599d252?searchid=4d991d95-a21f-8ffa-9b5c-64591eee7afd

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13h

The asking price is often a good clue to the viability of an attribution arsmagazine.com/dos-obras-in...

Dos obras inéditas de Artemisia en el mercado - ARS Magazine

La semana pasada se subastó en Pandolfini una Magdalena 200.000 euros, un tapado de Artemisia, y hoy en Capitolium una Samaritana.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15h

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Witches' Flight, 1798, Oil on canvas, 43.5 cm x 30.5 cm (Museo del Prado)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Oct 28

Pedro de Camprobín, Death and the Gentleman, c. 1670 (Hospital de la Caridad, Seville). In this unique painting, Death seems to be in the guise of a prostitute, who were often veiled in 17th-century Seville 🎃💀 #earlymodern

The painting depicts a 17th-century Spanish gentleman visited by Death, who seems to be in the guise of a woman who unveiled herself to him. On the table are objects associated with with the vices of the caballero: music, money, games of chance, duels, etc

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Nightmare material!

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, like most babies born in early modern Europe, she did not survive

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

13 Oct 1618: Artemisia Gentileschi #artist gives birth to her third child, Lisabella, at #Florence #otd (RoyalCollection/WGA/Met)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

It's about time someone did!

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to think Ur had one

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween costume ideas from Simon Witgeest's 1739 book of magic tricks, Het verbeetert en vermeerdert natuurlyk toverboek, of 't Nieuw speel-tooneel der konsten... archive.org/details/hetv...

An illustration from a Dutch 18th-century manual showing a man demonstrating the use of gag knives, arrows, and swords

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

Aw, thanks

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

This version of the same subject is pretty incredible in its own way

Unknown Mexican painter, Conversion of St. Francis Borgia, c. 1700, 184.5 cm x; 349 cm Museo Nacional del Virreinato

A painting of 4 figures gathered around a macabre, skeletal corpse of a queen. In the center is St. Francis Borgia looking heavenward and praying as a scribe records what's happening

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

Giorgione's Impact on Caravaggio at the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples on October 14

L'impatto di Giorgione sull'immaginario di Caravaggio - Pio Monte Della Misericordia

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

Pietro della Vecchia, The Conversion of St. Francis Borgia upon seeing the body of Isabel of Portugal , 1664-74 (Musée de Brest)

A painting of an open with the decaying corpse of Queen Isabel of Portugal inside. The body is surrounded by various figures, including a priest looking on in shock and horror, and one plugging his nose. A young St. Francis Borgia looks at the body in shock, leading to his choice to pursue the path of sanctity. The IHS above him refers to the Jesuit order, which he would later join

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Oct 29

It's always a good time to reach out to the one you love and remind them that you'll both be eaten by worms. 💀❤️

"A Letter to Me and You" (Memento Mori), German, ca. 1860, 8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in. (21.5 × 16.2 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 🎃

"The concept of 'Memento mori' reflects on the insignificance of earthly life in comparison to the enduring experience of the afterlife. This nineteenth-century moralizing double-sided folded letter is addressed to 'me and you'. It is printed on both sides and reveals various different images and written messages as it is unfolded. On the outside, other than the address to the recipient, a religious illustration is printed. The image begins as Adam depicted alone in Paradise, and then unfolds to show Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Wisdom, committing their sin by eating the apple. The image culminates in in the figure of the crucified Christ, and visualizes the sacrifice made to redeem this primordial sin. The other side of the letter addresses worldly sins, and reminds not to care too much for earthly riches. The image begins as a depiction of a well-dressed man and woman in a landscape. By unfolding the letter, the depiction of their lower halves changes to show their skeletons, and below their feet is an image of a corpse being eaten by worms." (Met)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3d

Auction listing here, if you have 20-30K to spare

Samaritan

We are grateful to Prof. Riccardo Lattuada for confirming the authenticity of the work through high-resolution photographs. According to Lattuada, it is a fragment of a large painting that shows a hig...

www.capitoliumart.com

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3d

Sure is hard to tell anything about the quality based on these images

Attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi painting that will go to auction in Brescia

A painting that will go up for auction at Capitolium in Brescia has been attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi: it is believed by Riccardo Lattuada and Nicola Spinosa to be an autograph of the painter, ...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

If I remember correctly the Sack of Rome was...not good

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 4d

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

An interesting unpublished fragment of a copy or variation of (or an independent detail after?) Artemisia Gentileschi's "Samaritan at the Well" up for auction

Capitolium Art: un capolavoro inedito di Artemisia in asta - ArtsLife

Capitolium Art: un capolavoro inedito di Artemisia in asta nella giornata di martedì 14 ottobre 2025. Un focus sull'opera

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

Meant to be satire, but pretty close to true: This food cart that sells organic, gluten-free dog treats

Portland’s doggie food cart serves pup-tarts and em-paw-nadas

They're serving pupcakes, empawnadas, puptarts and more.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse prays with beatific expression on his face while being beaten and tormented by 3 monstrous demons. Demons labelled ICE, Gaza, and Corruption, and Blessed Guillaume labelled: Me thinking about Portland Frog

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

Ambroise Frédeau, Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse Tormented by Demons, 1657, oil on canvas, 114 x 93 cm (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse). Also a ready-made template for all you meme needs!

Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse prays with beatific expression on his face while being beaten and tormented by 3 monstrous demons. Inscribed: B.GUILLAUME DE TOLOSE

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