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Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

Bluesky has four kinds of users [Jan Steen, Rhetoricians at a Window (Orator, Poet, Critic, Jester), 1662-66, Oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm, Museum of Art, Philadelphia]

Bluesky has four kinds of users [Jan Steen, Rhetoricians at a Window (Orator, Poet, Critic, Jester), 1662-66, Oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm, Museum of Art, Philadelphia]

How could anyone seriously think that this is a work by Caravaggio?

Neapolitan nun Caterina de Julianis created this terrifying allegorical wax tableau to remind you that time is running out 🎃⏳ [Time and Death, wax relief, before 1727, 83 cm x 108 x cm; wax depth: 20 cm (V&A, London)]

Something strange going on at LinkedIn... or at Rutgers

Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders, The Head of Medusa, c. 1617, Oil on wood, 69 x 118 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) 🎃🐍

Dance of the witch-cats. Now you know what they get up to when you are not at home!

A major Guercino exhibition opening in St. Louis next fall. A rare opportunity to see his paintings together

Antonio de Pereda, Vanitas, c. 1670, Oil on canvas, 152 x 173 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

El universo escultórico de Cristina de Suecia en el 400 aniversario de su nacimiento museodelprado.es/actualidad/e...

Frontispiece of notorious witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins’s "Discovery of Witches" (1645), showing witches with their adorable familiars: Holt, Jarmara, Vinegar Tom, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, Pyewackett, Newes, Ilemauzer, Pecke in the Crowne, and Griezzel Greedigutt (a name "no mortall could invent”) 🎃 🧹

Some of the greatest Rembrandts, never before seen in the US, are coming to the Met next November

Death snuffs out a candle and looks at you as if to say, "You're next." 🎃💀 [Juan de Valdés Leal, In Ictu Oculi ("In the Blink of an Eye"), 1670-72, Oil on canvas, 220 x 216 cm Hospital de la Caridad, Seville]

“Van Hemessen and Father,” at the Snijders and Rockoxhuis museum in Antwerp, Belgium, through Jan. 31

For Luca Giordano's birthday (born October 18, 1634), I'm going to let you all know how much I dislike Luca Giordano

A letter by painter Lionello Spada, possibly to Guercino, dated Feb. 14, 1620, where the artist requests a remedy for his persistent nightmares, which he compares to a young man being tormented by a witch (Royal Collection, UK)

Chicart Bailly, pendant to a rosary or chaplet (two sides), Paris(?), 1500–30, elephant ivory with traces of polychromy, 2 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (7 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm) (Detroit Institute of Arts) 🎃💀

Francisco de Goya, Witches' Flight, 1798, Oil on canvas, 43.5 cm x 30.5 cm (Museo del Prado). This was one of six scenes of witchcraft that Goya sold to the Duke and Duchess of Osuna for their country house 🎃

Portland State University’s Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is officially open. Supporters celebrated the grand opening Tuesday evening, though students have been taking classes there since the term started in late September.

Thinking of getting a restraining order against Josh Shapiro

Ambroise Frédeau, Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse Tormented by Demons but not worried about it, 1657, oil on canvas, 114 x 93 cm (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse). 🎃

Paddleboarding witch, 1643. Featured in Jon Crabb's essay "Woodcuts and Witches" about the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone so familiar today publicdomainreview.org/essay/w...

Join us this evening for the Grand Opening Celebrations for the Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design. A truly insane array of events, activities, and performances lined up. #pdx

Art history swag for the for Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design Grand Opening celebration tomorrow. You’re invited! www.psu.gd/grandopening

"Would you like fresh ground pepper with that?" [Giovanni Martinelli, Death Comes to the Banquet Table, c. 1630-1640, Oil on canvas (New Orleans Museum of Art)] 💀

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “The Devil's Lamp (The Bewitched Man),” 1798, oil on canvas, 42.5 × 30.8 cm (National Gallery, London). From the play "El Hechizado por Fuerza": the priest Don Claudio believes he has been bewitched and will die if the oil if his lamp is not perpetually replenished 🎃🐐

“After a month of looking at these Renoirs,” said one suspected burglar, “we just couldn’t take it anymore.”

Unknown Lombard artist, Cats Singing, Directed by an Owl, c. 1700, oil on canvas, within a painted lunette (formerly Sotheby’s, London) 🎃🐈‍⬛

**early modern spectacle**

You don't hear much about it, but mosaic was still a flourishing art form in the seventeenth century - Marcello Provenzale, a genius of Baroque mosaics in the Rome of the Borghese family. The exhibition in Cento www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...

"Hey, you don't think grandma's a witch, do you?" [John Michael Wright, Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot, 1675-6, oil on canvas, 129.5 x 133.6 cm (Tate)] 🎃

Relaxing with a cigarette while AI prepares my class for tomorrow

Antoine Wiertz, Premature Burial, 1854, 160 cm (62.9 in) x 235 cm (92.5 in) (Antoine Wiertz Museum, Brussels). The inscription of the coffin reads: “MORT DU CHOLERA / Certifié par nous Docteurs / Sansdoutes” (“DEAD FROM CHOLERA / Certified by us Doctors / Without a doubt”) 🎃💀

Teaser for the documentary "Artemisia's Secrets," about the restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi's Penitent Mary Magdalene in the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas, 94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago 🎃

So excited that Patrizia Cavazzini will be giving the 30th annual Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art at the National Gallery of Art. A well-deserved honor!

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Odilon Redon, The Battle of the Bones, 1881, Charcoal on paper, 44.7 x 37.3 cm (Kröller-Müller Museum) 💀

For those who think Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" isn't gross enough, thankfully there's also his "Anatomy lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman," painted about 30 years later, showing the dissection of a criminal call "Zwarte Jan" by renowned anatomist Jan Deijman 🎃💀🧠

Adolph Menzel, Death as an Unwelcome Guest, 1844/1845. Watercolor and gouache. 5.1 x 3.6 in. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Death politely recognizes that this is a shoe-free house.