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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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Francisco de Goya, “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 in his lamp is not perpetually replenished 🎃

"We see Claudio eagerly replenishing the oil in the lamp, which is in the form of an almost life-size ram. The inscription in the bottom right contains the first part of two words, lampara descomunal (‘monstrous lamp’) – the words that the fearful and superstitious Claudio cries out loud." (NGL)
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feels valid

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omarzak.bsky.social

That painting is phenomenal. The dancing donkeys?!?

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Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
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.
1.9k followers606 following1.1k posts
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