Marie de Medici had an ego the size of a barn but at least we got some pretty kick-ass artworks from it.

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Peter Paul Rubens

The Fates Spinning Marie’s Destiny, 1622-25 

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Glass art is something that doesn’t get talked about as much as it should in art history.

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Unknown Venetian artist

Diana and Actaeon, ca. 1690-1720

Corning Museum of Glass

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hey guys

that is carved

 from MARBLE

THAT IS A ROCK

WAT

I have no idea how the artist manages to make it looks like not just cloth, but TRANSPARENT cloth. Amazing.

Hey Guys this is a sculpture of a Vestal Virgin, carved during the roman empire. its my favorite and is pretty fucking awesome. 

Blown away

I had the same reaction when I saw this motherfucker in the Louvre

I walked around that hunk of orgasm rock for a good ten minutes trying to figure out HOW.

b-but that’s not how rocks work???!!?

FUCKING BERNINI THO

FUCKING

BERNINI

DID SOMEONE SAY BERNINI? HERE’S BERNINI SCULPTING A FAT CARDINAL.

HERE’S A SELF-PORTRAIT. HE’S A DAMNED SOUL IN HELL, HE BURNED HIS HAND AND SCREAMED IN FRONT OF A MIRROR FOR REFERENCE BECAUSE FUCK EVERYTHING.

OH AND LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THOSE GRASPING ORGASM-HANDS

SPEAKING OF ORGASMS HERE’S A NUN MASTURBATING. HE PUT THAT MOTHERFUCKER IN A FUCKING CHAPEL.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE HE PUT IN A CHAPEL? THIS BITCHING PIECE OF MARBLE.

IS THAT AN ANGEL POINTING A GOLDEN ARROW AT THE CROTCH OF A NUN? YOU BET YOUR FACE IT IS! IS SHE HAVING A MIND-BLOWING ANGEL-ORGASM?

OF FUCKING COURSE SHE IS!

BERNINI!

Reblogging because batshit insane sculptors and horny statues are funny.

there was a Bernini thingie when I went to the met and Vox told us about the time a nun flicked an entire classroom off 

BERNINI!

Brilliant

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Philip IV of Spain had a love of hunting and filled his lodge, Torre de la Parada, with genre paintings such as this one.

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Paul de Vos

Stag Hunt, c.1600-1650

This sketch was created by Van Dyck when he saw Titian’s work on his trip to Genoa. Its an interesting insight into how artists learned from one another and foreshadows the heavy Titian influence that shows up in Van Dyck’s finished pieces from this point on. 

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Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, 1513-1514

Anthony Van Dyck, Sketch of Figures in Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1620s

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Italian art historians ‘find 100 Caravaggio paintings’ http://t.co/HTVk4zyo — artnet (@artnet)

This is pretty awesome if it turns out to be true.

Rubens and Brueghel were life-long collaborators and friends, so close that Rubens even became the godfather to Brueghel’s children and the executor of his will after his death. This painting represents the first of such collaborations with Rubens providing the twisting figures and Brueghel painting the lush landscape.

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Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder

The Battle of the Amazons, c.1598-1600 

Here is Rubens doing that awesome thing he does where he remixs another artist’s paintings.

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Titian, Venus with a Mirror, c.1555

Peter Paul Rubens, Venus at a Mirror, c. 1615

This painting shows Apollo informing Vulcan, blacksmith to the gods, of his wife Venus’ affair with Mars. Note how unlike other artists of his era, Velázquez makes the gods look like they could almost be ordinary people. The only thing that tells you this is a mythological scene is the halo over Apollo’s head. 

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Diego Velázquez

Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, 1630