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theoutcastrogue · 1 year

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In a Roman Osteria, by Carl Bloch (oil on cavas, 1866)

A very popular genre painting (full resolution here) by the Danish painter Carl Bloch. Genre paintings have subject matters drawn from everyday life, rather than anything pompous, and often from life in the margins in particular: if you’re looking for rogues in European painting, this is where you’ll find them.

An osteria is like a humble tavern, primarily for wine, and maybe to grab a bite and socialise – one way or another. The concept arguably goes back to ancient Rome, and there’s something more or less like it wherever wine is made, but Italy’s oldest osterie, in Brindisi and Bologna, are from the 1400s. It’s a fitting setting for a genre painting.

You can interpret it as you like, but my take is: “POV: you are sitting in an osteria in Rome drinking wine and exchanging suggestive glances with a young lady at the next table, when her friend takes wind of it and tells the young man accompanying them, and he turns around to look at you and he’s NOT happy; uh-oh, he’s got a knife.”

It doesn’t look like an Italian knife, it looks like a Spanish navaja. Designs could of course be similar, and ideas and techniques were borrowed back and forth, but there’s a decorative element which doesn’t show up in Italy (AFAIK), only in Spain and sometimes Morocco: those white discs on the handle are called ojos de perdiz (partridge eyes), they’re bone inlays and the “iris” is usually brass. It makes a nice contrast with the darker material of the handle, which is horn or wood.

As it happens, I have one that looks a lot like it:

Spain, c.1850

And here are a few more navajas with “partridge eyes”, made around the time In a Roman Osteria was painted. (All these are with a carraca, a ratchet; our Italian friend carries a simpler folding knife.)

Albacete, 1860

Albacete, 1866

Cádiz, late 19th century

Back to Italy, a similar decorative element can be found in one very special case. The lover’s knife or love knife (coltello d’amore) is an extremely fancy folding knife, dating to the 18th century, and given as a token of love or as an engagement gift. Among other decorations, it features occhi di dado (dice eyes), which are similar to ojos de perdiz but with a much larger iris, placed off-center. Kind of like googly eyes.

21st century version by the Colterellia Saladini, a very high-end cutlery; it’s their most expensive knife (EUR 1220, lol)

an atypical fixed blade knife, small (16 cm total) and humbly made, 19th century

The eyes are supposed to “ward off the jealous gaze of anyone looking at your lover”, and I think they look a lot like nazars. Italy does have its own apotropaic symbols, however the south (where these knives hail from) has had significant contact with both Arabic and Greek culture, where nazars are super common, so it’s not a terrible leap to assume there’s a connection. But that’s just my speculation.

In the series Suburra: Blood on Rome, the young Sinti gangster Spadino is carrying this exact knife (the Saladini one). Sadly in a different context, it’s a parental / wedding / coming-of-age gift, they just picked it because it’s so extra.

Spadino's mama: “you’re a man now, act like it”. Spadino: *fumes in gay*

#art #trs #tools of the trade #navaja #italy #rome #spain #terminology #folding knife #trp #trc #Suburra: Blood on Rome #how to stab #knives in fiction #rogues in fiction #look at this mess of a post #it's my ADHD in real time #I just wanted to post the painting #and say ''that's a navaja!''

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dan6085 · 22 days

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Top 20 Painters of All Time:

1. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

• An Italian polymath of the Renaissance, best known for his iconic works “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.” Leonardo’s notebooks, filled with scientific diagrams, anatomical sketches, and artistic innovations, reveal his genius and insatiable curiosity.

2. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)

• A Dutch post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion, and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness and remained largely unappreciated during his lifetime. “Starry Night” and “Sunflowers” are among his most famous works.

3. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

• A Spanish painter, sculptor, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He co-founded the Cubist movement and is known for works like “Guernica” and “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

4. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)

• An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and his sculpture “David.” His work is admired for its detailed portrayal of the human body.

5. Claude Monet (1840–1926)

• A French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy. His “Water Lilies” series is particularly famous.

6. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)

• A Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. Considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. His works include portraits, self-portraits, and biblical scenes.

7. Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)

• A Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but is now highly regarded for his precise compositions and use of light, notably in “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

8. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)

• A Spanish surrealist artist known for his striking and bizarre images. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

9. Frida Kahlo (1907–1954)

• A Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and Indigenous traditions.

10. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)

• An American artist best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O’Keeffe has been recognized as the “Mother of American modernism.”

11. Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)

• An American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

12. Edvard Munch (1863–1944)

• A Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. His best-known work is “The Scream.”

13. Raphael (1483–1520)

• An Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Known for “The School of Athens.”

14. Caravaggio (1571–1610)

• An Italian painter known for his realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. His use of dramatic lighting and realism was groundbreaking.

15. Titian (c. 1488/90–1576)

• An Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his work was influential in defining the Venetian Renaissance.

16. Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)

• An Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. “The Kiss” (1907–1908) is his most famous work.

17. Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516)

• An Early Netherlandish painter known for his surreal, imaginative works depicting religious concepts, moral allegories, and narratives filled with fantastical creatures. “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is his most famous work.

18. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)

• A French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

19. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)

• A Russian painter and art theorist credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works. He believed that art could visually express musical compositions.

20. Andy Warhol (1928–1987)

• An American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, culture, and advertisement.

Each of these artists contributed uniquely to the fabric of art history, influencing not only their contemporaries but also countless artists and enthusiasts who followed.

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maenads-bacchantes · 5 months

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Mary Cassatt, “Bacchante”, 1872, 24 x 19 15/16 in, oil on canvas, PAFA

Taken from PAFA website:

“Painted for exhibition at the Esposizione di belle arti in Milan, this early work shows the influence of the young Mary Cassatt's extended European tour between 1871 and 1874. After a year and a half spent back in Philadelphia, Cassatt returned to Europe, visiting Rome, Madrid, Seville, Antwerp, and Parma. The choice of subject matter - a celebrant in Dionysian rituals swept up in religious mysteries - testifies to Cassatt's interest in classical culture. More significantly, the painting reveals the influence of the High Renaissance Northern Italian painter Correggio, whose works Cassatt had been commissioned to copy by the Archdiocese of Pittsburgh. The bacchante's pose echoes a figure of the Madonna by Correggio and was painted in his native region. Yet, for all its Italian references, the painting also evokes the warm tonality of Spanish Baroque painting, which Cassatt and other young artists - such as her Philadelphia compatriot Thomas Eakins two years earlier, not to mention many of her eventual French colleagues - were also discovering in large numbers during the second half of the nineteenth century. Cassatt moved to Paris in 1874, where she proceeded to abandon academic exercises such as this work in favor of scenes of modern life.”

My thoughts:

The woman in this painting reminds me more of a baroque gypsy than a bacchante or maenad, the grape-leaf crown being the only classical iconography in the painting. However the color palette is gorgeous and she seems deeply entranced in her music-making.

#art history #mary cassatt #nineteenth century #artwork #painting #neoclassicism #neoclassical #bacchante #maenads

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historydailyfrancischappellblack · 8 months

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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is Stolen Right Off the Walls of the Louvre in Paris. August 21, 1911.

Image: People gather around the Mona Lisa painting on January 4, 1914, in Paris, France, after it was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia in 1911. (Wikimedia Commons.)

On this day in history, on a quiet, humid Monday morning in Paris, three men were hurrying out of the Louvre with what would become the most famous painting in the world. They were committing the “art heist of the century.”

History Daily: 365 Fascinating Happenings Volume 1 & Volume 2 - August 21, 1911

They were Vincenzo Perugia and the brothers, Vincenzo and Michele Lancelotti, young Italian workmen. They had come to the Louvre on Sunday afternoon and hidden themselves overnight in a narrow storeroom near the Salon Carre, a gallery stuffed with Renaissance paintings. Wearing white workmen's smocks in the morning, they entered the Salon Carre. They grabbed a small painting off the wall. Quickly, they ripped off its glass shadow box and frame, and Perugia slipped it under his coat. They escaped from the gallery, went down a back stairwell and out through a side entrance, and into the streets of Paris.

They had stolen the Mona Lisa.

It would be 26 hours before anyone noticed that the painting was gone. It was unsurprising. At the time, the Louvre was the most enormous building in the world, with over 1,000 rooms spread over 45 acres. Security was weak; fewer than 150 guards protected a quarter of a million objects.

At the time of the “Mona Lisa" robbery, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was not the most viewed painting in the museum. Leonardo created the portrait around 1507, and in the 1860s, art critics declared that the Mona Lisa was one of the best examples of Renaissance painting. This judgment, however, had yet to filter beyond the intelligentsia, and interest in it was relatively minimal.

Which isn't to say it was esoteric. A letter sent to the Louvre in 1910 from Vienna threatened the Mona Lisa's theft, so museum officials hired the glazier firm Cobier to place a dozen of its more valuable paintings under glass. The work would take three months; one of the Cobier men working on the project was Vincenzo Perugia. Perugia, the son of a bricklayer, grew up in Dumenza, a Lombardy village north of Milan. In 1907, at 25, Vincenzo left home to try out Paris, Milan, and then Lyon. After a year of moving around, he began living in Paris with his two brothers in the Italian enclave in the 10th Arrondissement.

At the time of its theft in 1911, the Mona Lisa was not the most visited item in the museum.

Perugia was short, just 5 feet 3, with a short temper, and was always willing to challenge any insult to himself or his nation. His brothers called him a passoide o megloi, a nut, or a madman. Perugia testified that his fellow French construction workers "almost always called me 'mangia maccheroni’ (macaroni eater), and very often they stole my personal property and salted my wine."

Twice the Parisian police arrested Perugia. First, in June 1908, he spent a night in jail for trying to rob a prostitute. Eight months later, he spent a week in the Macon, the infamous Parisian prison, and was fined 16-franc for possessing a gun during a fistfight. He even fought with his future co-conspirators; he once stopped speaking to Vincenzo Lancelotti over a disputed 1-franc loan.

Perugia had always wanted to be more than a laborer. While in court in 1914 for the theft of the Mona Lisa, the prosecution called him a house painter. Perugia stood up and, with chest stuck out, declared himself a pittore, an artist.

Stealing the Mona Lisa made sense. Most purloined paintings that were not immediately held for ransom did not go to a wealthy aristocrat’s secret hideaway but instead slid into an illicit pipeline being used as barter or collateral for drugs, arms, and other stolen goods. Perugia had enough connections to criminal circles that he hoped to barter or sell it.

Unfortunately for Perugia, the Mona Lisa got too hot to hock. Initially, the afternoon newspapers in Paris had nothing on Monday, and the following morning’s papers were also curiously quiet on the matter. Would the Louvre cover it up, pretend that it had not happened?

Finally, a media explosion occurred late on Tuesday when the Louver announced the theft. Newspapers around the world proclaimed the news. Wanted posters for the painting appeared on Parisian walls. Crowds massed at police headquarters. Thousands of spectators, including Franz Kafka, flooded the Salon Carre when the Louvre reopened a week later to stare at the empty wall with its four lonely iron hooks. Kafka and his traveling companion Max Brod marveled at the “mark of shame” at the Louvre and attended a vaudeville show lampooning the theft.

Satirical postcards, a short film, and cabaret songs followed – popular culture seized upon the theft and turned high art into mass art. Perugia realized he had not stolen an old Italian painting from a decaying royal palace. He had unluckily stolen what had become, in just a few short days, the world's most famous painting.

Perugia hid the Mona Lisa in the false bottom of a trunk in his room at his boarding house. When the Parisian police interrogated him in November 1911 as part of their interviews of all Louvre employees, he blithely said he only learned about the theft of the painting from the newspapers and that the reason he was late to work that Monday in August – as his employer had told police – was that he had been drunk the night before and overslept.

The police believed his story. Incredibly inept, they ignored Perugia and detained the artist Pablo Picasso and the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. (They were friends with a thief who confessed to stealing little sculptures from the Louvre.) The two were promptly released.

In December 1913, after 28 months, Perugia left his Parisian boarding house with his trunk and took a train to Florence, where he tried to offload the painting to an art dealer who immediately called the police. Perugia was arrested. After a short trial in Florence, he was found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail. He served seven months in prison. He eventually served Italy in the First World War, and he died in 1925.

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hzaidan · 1 year

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Fiona Maclean's Madonna, With Footnotes - #47

A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna, meaning 'my lady'.

The term Madonna in the sense of "picture or statue of the Virgin Mary" enters English usage in the 17th century, primarily in reference to works of the Italian Renaissance. In an Eastern Orthodox context, such images are typically known as Theotokos. More on Madonna

New Zealand born Fiona Maclean is a Painter and Visual Artist. After studying Art, Design and Production in New Zealand & Australia she continued her studies..

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jiliwin · 1 year

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Do you know the historical origin of Lotto?

History of World Lotto

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The lottery" was published in the New Yorker in 1948. World War II had ended a few years earlier, in 1945, and the world was shocked by the revelation that millions of Jews had been executed in Nazi concentration camps. There is a strong resemblance between the Nazis of World War II and the fictional executioners in the book. In both the reality and the fiction of the book, the murderers killed innocent people because they were blindly following others, and neither the Nazis nor the citizens questioned the moral implications of their actions.

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whatsonmedia · 2 years

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Must See Exhibition Around the World!

Europe's art world will be bustling this year with a string of biennial exhibitions being held in 2022. All the exhibitions are curated by famous sculptors or have some significance in todays modern world. Here are list of exhibition which is a must see in 2022 for that extra artistic feeling! 'Barbara Kruger' Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin April 29- August 28 Barbara Kruger The newly opened Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, an exquisite museum of contemporary and modern designed by Mies van der Rohe that will now be headed by Klaus Biesenbach. Will see Kruger install a new text installation for its main floor. Kruger will leave key parts of the building untouched. "Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS", Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham May 7- September 4 Life on the Caps Bennani will show her eight- channel video installation Party on CAPS alongside a newly-commissioned sequel. The films track the movements of inhabitants of a fictional island called CAPS in the middle of the Atlantic ocean across three generations. It is an internment camp for refugees and migrants hoping to head Europe or North America. 'Etel Adnan' Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam May 20 - September 4 Etel Adnan The Van Gogh Museum will present the first retrospective of work by Etel Adnan since her death in 2021. The acclaimed Beirut- born artists and writer was known for her vivid abstracted landscapes. The Dutch exhibition will consider the overlap in Adnan and Van Gogh's art practices. 'Raphael', National Gallery, London April 9 to July 31 Raphael The Raphael exhibition is the first ever to consider the work of Italian High Renaissance genius so fully and comprehensively. He was able to combine the human and the divine in his art, preaching the ideals of Renaissance humanism. The exhibition portrays 90 works of his, some of which have been provided by other famous museums. 'Hans Hoffmann', German National Museum, Nuremberg May 12- August 21 Hans Hoffman Hans Hoffmann- is the first ever monographic exhibition of the artist. He is known as the most prominent representative of the Durerian Renaissance at the end of 16 century. During his artistic career, Hans Hoffman created quite some copies and compilations of works by the German painter, engraver, and graphic artist Albrecht Durer. The exhibition showcases all the exhibits of Hans Hoffman. Read the full article

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madeleineengland · 5 years

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Caravaggio - The Lute Player (1595-1596)

Location: Hermitage Museum

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aic-armor · 2 years

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Rock Crystal Casket, 1500, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

Miniature caskets might have been used in the Renaissance to house jewels or possibly saintly relics. This example features panels of engraved rock crystal, an extremely hard material of great clarity and polish that is carved only with patience and skill. The emblematic figures depicted here are modeled after the work of the sixteenth-century Italian painter Raphael. Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf Size: 4.2 × 8.4 × 4.9 cm (1 5/8 × 3 5/16 × 1 15/16 in.) Medium: Plaques: rock crystal; mount: enamel and gold

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/119971/

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cma-european-art · 3 years

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Scenes of Witchcraft, Salvator Rosa , c. 1645-1649, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

A huge upturn in interest in witchcraft emerged during the 1500s in Europe, but by the middle of the next century - at least among the cultured elite of Florence - a backlash arose against the many accusations of sorcery. Artists and writers explored the topic more out of curiosity and amusement, chief among them the poet, painter, and satirist Salvator Rosa, who examined witchcraft with gusto in numerous poems and works of art, including these four paintings. They show a range witch types - from the beautiful enchantress to the old crone to the male sorcerer - and represent activities commonly associated with black magic - levitation, love potions, devil worship, the invocation of demons, and transformation. Transformation was a common subject in Italian art of the 1600s, usually seen in interpretations of myths based on Ovid's ancient Latin text, The Metamophoses. Rosa found a novel way to exploit this idea, drawing attention to his own ability to transform paint and canvas into a disturbing, nightmarish world. Size: Framed: 76.2 x 9.6 cm (30 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.37

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dan6085 · 1 year

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20 painters who have had a significant impact on the art world and continue to influence artists today, listed in alphabetical order:

1. Michelangelo (1475–1564) - An Italian Renaissance artist, Michelangelo is known for his sculpture, painting, and architecture. His most famous works include the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the sculpture of David.

2. Claude Monet (1840–1926) - A French Impressionist painter, Monet is renowned for his beautiful landscapes, particularly his series of water lilies.

3. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) - A Spanish Surrealist painter, Dalí created wildly imaginative works that explore the subconscious mind.

4. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) - A Dutch post-Impressionist painter, van Gogh is famous for his bold use of color and emotional depictions of nature and humanity.

5. Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) - A Dutch Baroque painter, Vermeer is celebrated for his intimate portraits and scenes of everyday life.

6. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) - A Dutch Baroque painter, Rembrandt is known for his powerful portraits and dramatic use of light and shadow.

7. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) - A Spanish Cubist painter, Picasso is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, with a vast body of work that spans various styles and mediums.

8. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - An Italian Renaissance artist, da Vinci was a master of many disciplines, including painting, sculpture, engineering, and science.

9. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) - A French Impressionist painter, Renoir created vibrant, colorful scenes of modern life.

10. Marc Chagall (1887–1985) - A Russian-French artist, Chagall's work is characterized by dreamlike imagery, vibrant colors, and a blending of various styles and influences.

11. Edvard Munch (1863–1944) - A Norwegian Symbolist painter, Munch created haunting, emotionally charged works, including The Scream.

12. Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) - An Italian Renaissance painter, Botticelli is known for his graceful depictions of mythological and religious subjects.

13. Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) - A Spanish Baroque painter, Velázquez was a master of portraiture and is celebrated for his realistic depictions of people and objects.

14. Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) - An Austrian Symbolist painter, Klimt created ornate, decorative works that often featured sensuous, erotic imagery.

15. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) - A Russian abstract painter, Kandinsky is considered one of the pioneers of non-objective art, which emphasizes color, form, and texture over representational imagery.

16. Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) - An American Abstract Expressionist painter, Pollock is known for his large, gestural canvases that explore the physical act of painting.

17. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) - A French Fauvist painter, Matisse created bold, colorful works that celebrated the beauty of the natural world.

18. Francisco Goya (1746–1828) - A Spanish Romantic painter, Goya created powerful, often disturbing works that explored the darker aspects of human nature.

19. Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) - A Flemish Renaissance painter, van Eyck is celebrated for his realistic depictions of people, objects, and landscapes, as well as his pioneering use of oil paint.

20. Titian (1488–1576) - An Italian Renaissance painter, Titian is known for his richly colored, sensual depictions of mythological and religious subjects.

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tiarnanabhfainni · 3 years

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alright lads i have written spn fic about the family of deanna campbell, path dependency, kansas coal mining and generational misery. also dean mirrors because that’s what this whole industry runs on. it was heavily inspired by this insane post by tumblr-user @uhuraha. you can also find it under the cut

blood and bone is the price of coal

There’s a concept in social science known as path dependency. The gist is this: the decisions you will be faced with in the future are heavily dependent on the choices you make now. Human trajectories are resistant to change. Once a family enters the mines it becomes nearly impossible for them to dig their way out.

The Winchester and Campbell names have long pedigrees. Two families whose history goes back as long as humans have records. In fact, their traditions are as old as angels can remember. The Winchesters. Men of Letters. Generations upon generations of knowledge of the arcane passed from mouth to pen to typewriter. The Campbells. Hunters. Parents, siblings, and cousins standing shoulder to shoulder in the endless bloody fight against the monsters under the bed.

Deanna Campbell née Foster had no such pedigree.

See, her family had a somewhat different history than that of the Campbells or the Winchesters. Deanna was the first of her family to be drawn into the shadowy world of the supernatural. Her death at the hands of a demon was not the result of centuries of angelic influence on her family line. That cooling body on the kitchen tiles was not preordained by fate. A fluke. A woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and as a result crossed paths with a demon. There really could have been any woman sitting at that kitchen table with Dean Winchester in 1973 and the apocalypse would have gone ahead.

Because the Foster family business was not hunting things or saving people. It was coal mining. Generations of men lining up to take their place in the cavernous tunnels. Hauling their shovels and pickaxes far below the surface to obtain the precious black stone hiding under Kansas soil.

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Jacob Foster was one such miner who toiled below the packed earth almost a century before an angel placed Dean Winchester in the perfect place to witness the damnation of his family to a life of misery and revenge.

It’s hard to determine the exact relationship between Jacob and Deanna. He was not a cosmically important man. As a result, there aren’t many records of his life that survived. He could have been her grand-uncle or maybe some distant cousin. It doesn’t really matter in the end because either way he worked in the coal mines like everyone else in the family. Like his father before him.

Jacob’s life was a small one. His family had been poor as long as he’d known them. A family life that might have sounded familiar to hundreds around the country. An exploited, overworked drunk of a father and a mother wasting away at the kitchen counter, bent over with exhaustion.

The wages from his father’s long hours were barely enough to cover the food on the table and yet still most of it found its way into the pockets of the men who owned the local taverns and bars. His mother did her best with what she was given.

She put as much food on the table as she could with the means available to her. Not once did she confront Jacob’s father about the money he spent on drink nor did she ask for a larger cut of his paycheck for use on groceries.

Sometimes Jacob felt that her fear had more of a presence in the house than she did.

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Dean’s life shrank the night his mother burned alive on the ceiling. His childhood shaped itself to fit inside broken, dirty apartments and cheap motel rooms. The overpowering stench of a man blackout drunk on bourbon and beer became more familiar to him than that of home cooked meals.

He did his best with the scraps of approval he was given and never asked for more.

His father was grieving, overworked, and doing his best and what could Dean do but take what he could get.

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The lack of records makes it hard to be precise about what age Jacob was when he first went down under the shifting earth to search for precious black fuel in the pits. The family stories are confused on this point. Historians agree that the youngest boys in that particular mine were thirteen years old. But Deanna’s aunt always insisted that Jacob’s mother was fearful for her child’s safety and so she wheedled a year or two of reprieve from his father.

But regardless of his mother’s concern there was no other job open to her son and so - some time before his sixteenth birthday - Jacob’s father put a shovel in his hand and placed a cap on his head and walked him down the dirt tracks to the mine

In another life maybe Jacob could have been something else.

Maybe if his father was a butcher, he could have studied book-keeping and gone to work in an airy office rather than a dark airless hole in the ground. If the miner’s union was stronger in those days, maybe his father could have earned money enough to get his son into trade. But instead, the mine-owners underpaid their workers with little organised protest against them and Jacob worked where he was always destined to. Carefully extracting the bedrock of industrial expansion. Digging up coal that would keep other homes warm.

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John Winchester first put a gun in his eldest son’s hand at six years old, brought him down to the woods and had him fire at cans. He looked his little boy in the eyes and handed him the tools to the trade that his mother had sacrificed so much to keep him out of.

Before he turned 16, Dean wasn’t allowed on any other hunts other than salt ‘n burns. But it was fitting in a way. Dean Winchester, grandson to Deanna Campbell née Foster, digging his shovel into hard-packed earth. The bruises on his face warmed up by the crackling flames in the open grave, earned while protecting someone else’s home.

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In his early years down in the shafts of a Kansas coal mine, Jacob was careful to save as much from his paychecks as he could. He handed this money over to his mother as she wrung her hands over the kitchen counter.

But every year the hours got longer, the pit got deeper and his paychecks grew slimmer. The siren call of the bourbon behind the barman’s back grew ever stronger.

Can we grow beyond our parents? Every tool that Jacob had was handed to him by his father. His leather workman’s boots, his dusty cap, the shovel he used to break his own back. And his father’s oldest and deepest friend, the whiskey he drank to numb himself to the grinding misery and exploitation that defined his life.

Path dependency means that the past matters. Every option that lies before us was predetermined by choices made long before their consequences would be felt. Once a man enters the mines, can his sons ever dig their way out?

By his twentieth birthday Jacob was leaving all of his paycheck on the barman’s lowest shelf.

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The hunting life is founded on revenge.

Supernatural forces cut a life short, and husbands, wives, mothers, brothers, and daughters dive headfirst into miserable, bitter, and transitory lives where their only options are dying young or dying alone.

In 1983, John Winchester’s marriage and home went up in smoke and the ground shifted beneath him. He packed his car with a hunter’s basics, - a shovel, some shotguns, whiskey - and dragged his family down into the mine.

Dean Winchester only ever got out of the life once. After his brother threw himself into the pit.

But it’s hard to live on the surface when you know what lurks underneath and every tool Dean had, he got from his father.

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The rules of Jacob’s mine stated that no more than five pounds of black powder explosive could be taken into the mines by a miner at one time. But inspections were rare, and miners rarely took time to remember the rules by hour six in the pits.

The explosion that killed Jacob and his father also took out three of his cousins, five 13-year-old runners and a group of newly arrived Italian immigrants to the town who barely spoke a word of English. The local undertaker was put to hard work in the following days. 43 closed pine coffins lowered slowly underground. Maybe in another life Jacob could have been a painter, a baker, a steel mill worker.

Instead, he died as he lived. Smothered by coal dust.

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Dean Winchester looked heaven, fate and God in the eyes and told them all to go fuck themselves. He taught an angel free will, cancelled the apocalypse and stripped the cosmic author of all of his power.

Dean Winchester died choking on blood in a barn in Kansas hunting a monster that his father failed to kill. He couldn’t dig his way out.

#spn #dean winchester #john winchester #fic tag #so yep #i have notes on research on the ao3 link but i am not bothered to transcribe #basically listen to springhill mining disaster by luke kelly #the reason i left mullingar #and navigator by the pogues to get a feel for the mood i was in while writing this lmao

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Paint Me | kth (teaser)

Part of my Bon Voyage With BTS Series

banner: who else, other than the amazing @kithtaehyung

Pairing: Taehyung x (f) reader

Location: Tuscany, Italy

Genre: fluff, smut, s2l, oneshot

Posting date: MAY! (possibly 15/16)

Word count: 10k-ish?

Summary: Writing is difficult. Incredibly, torturously difficult, if you’re being honest. Still riding the waves of your first best seller, you struggle to find the time, energy and inspiration to write again. Your publisher insists that you step away from the craziness of it all and you take his suggestion, renting a tiny, semi-secluded house in Tuscany, ready to spend some time with yourself and your old, nearly broken down laptop. The house comes with its ups and downs. Down - the water pressure is horribly weak. Up - the owner, the famous painter Kim Taehyung, is happy to help.

Warnings (to be updated by the time I post): cursing, drinking, graphic smut

Teaser word count: 578

TEASER:

A knock startles you, confirming that you have officially gone insane - you truly did not need to hear sounds that aren’t actually there. The second knock makes you really wonder if you’re truly imagining things and are completely off your rocker. Deciding to check, just in case, despite knowing that there’s no reason for anyone to look for you, you step away from the desk and quietly move towards the door. Peaking into the hallway, you gasp loudly when you realize that you’re not alone.

A man was standing in the hallway, turned away from you as he looked around, obviously searching for something - most likely, you. Panic sets in immediately - stranger danger, alarm bells, red alert. You quickly scan your surroundings in search for a makeshift weapon - as you do, the man turns around to face you - apparently, he’s as surprised to see you here as you are to see him, a damn stranger in your temporary house.

“Who the fuck are you?” you ask in pretend confidence, despite being scared shitless. It’s too late to hide and pretend the house is empty - the least you can do is not show him how frightened you are. He’s buff enough to make you swallow a lump - you wouldn’t last a minute.

“The owner,” he deadpans. You could be wrong but the comment makes him sound annoyed - like he could be anyone else and you question was idiotic. Maybe it was but you don’t particularly care - unlike an intruder, this man can have a reason to be here. You truly don’t care, showing your obvious relief by leaning onto the wall and chuckling nervously.

“Oh thank god, I thought you were going to attack me or something,” you admit in relief, smiling when the sound of his laughter fills the room. Now, when you’re not frightened for your life, you can actually look at him properly - and he… is quite a sight to behold. For some reasons you couldn’t quite explain, you imagined an old, Italian couple that are so filthy rich they keep building villas and rent them out to strangers because they no longer know what to do with all of the property they own. You didn’t imagine a man around your age, especially not a man as beautiful as the one in front of you. His facial features are striking, equally sharp and soft at the same time. A jaw that can cut glass paired with a smile that reaches his eyes. Dark hair, dark eyes, casual yet confident posture, along with clothes that make him seem as if he has fallen out of the previous century - a white linen shirt paired with brown trousers and suspenders. It took you a moment but you finally realized which setting you can place him in - he looks like he stumbled right out of ‘The Notebook’. Noah, but hotter. Way hotter. And you are staring at him, long enough for him to notice.

“Are you okay?” he wonders, the question making you realize that you probably look mildly psychotic. “I apologize for frightening you - you didn’t answer and I got worried,” he explained.

“Oh no no,” you wave him off, finally feeling confident to speak properly. “It’s alright, I completely understand. I would have done the same. Um… how can I help you?” you ask, ignoring how awkward it is to ask such a question when you are technically a guest in his home, not the other way around.

#taehyung smut #taehyung fluff #taehyung fanfic #bts fanfic #bts fanfiction #bts smut #bts oneshot #taehyung oneshot

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