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Jesse 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.
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Are there any babies in the history of art cuter than Barocci's?

Federico Barocci 
The Circumcision of Christ
1590
Oil on canvas, 374 x 252 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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MWmollieoreilly.bsky.social

OMG I love him

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KTtreesandwords.bsky.social

Maybe the one baby painted by someone who was actually looking at a baby.

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JMjeremymillar.bsky.social

He seems quite calm considering

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Swhogivesashirt.bsky.social

Definitely not Mantegna's.

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Jesse 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.
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