JJ Merelo
@jjmerelo.bsky.social
Student of a BA in Art History by day, professor by another day.
Venetophile
Posts in English, Italian and Spanish.
Venetophile
Posts in English, Italian and Spanish.
This and other murals by the same author, P. Ugolino da Belluno, decorate the poligonal walls of the crypt of Fray Leopoldo. They are related to the works of mercy, which are the theme of the whole crypt, in this case, one of the “corporal” works, to visit the sick, poor old chap, in bed
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This and other murals by the same author, P. Ugolino da Belluno, decorate the poligonal walls of the crypt of Fray Leopoldo. They are related to the works of mercy, which are the theme of the whole crypt, in this case, one of the “corporal” works, to visit the sick, poor old chap, in bed
I had to stick my hand over a wall to take this picture. It’s the “La caridad” hospital, a building from 1921 by the architect Fernando Wilhelmi who’s so unknown he literally had an exhibition devoted to him, together with other unknown local architects; there are just a few passing references
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I had to stick my hand over a wall to take this picture. It’s the “La caridad” hospital, a building from 1921 by the architect Fernando Wilhelmi who’s so unknown he literally had an exhibition devoted to him, together with other unknown local architects; there are just a few passing references
Sebastián Sánchez is used to creating religious figures; there’s really a market for them among Holy Week brotherhoods in Andalucía www.instagram.com/sacredart.se...
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sebastián Sánchez is used to creating religious figures; there’s really a market for them among Holy Week brotherhoods in Andalucía www.instagram.com/sacredart.se...
Well, not bronze but fiberglass and resin www.aciprensa.com/noticias/116... Well played, it really looks like something more valuable. The sculptor is a Colombian residing in Granada, Sebastián Sánchez, and includes a hair form the saint, who’s buried in Assisi.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well, not bronze but fiberglass and resin www.aciprensa.com/noticias/116... Well played, it really looks like something more valuable. The sculptor is a Colombian residing in Granada, Sebastián Sánchez, and includes a hair form the saint, who’s buried in Assisi.
How do you represent a saint that became so a few years ago? Well, art history is about understanding the problems the artists are trying to solve (and much more, but let’s start with that). That’s one of the main problems the creator of this work representing San Carlo Acutis who died in 2006
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
How do you represent a saint that became so a few years ago? Well, art history is about understanding the problems the artists are trying to solve (and much more, but let’s start with that). That’s one of the main problems the creator of this work representing San Carlo Acutis who died in 2006
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Tal día como hoy 17 de noviembre 👇
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November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Lesser kestrels (cernícalos primillas) in "The Collins Birds of Europe" featuring La Giralda, once the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville, since Christian conquest the bell tower of the Cathedral. This is the only building shown in the essential European bird guide.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Lesser kestrels (cernícalos primillas) in "The Collins Birds of Europe" featuring La Giralda, once the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville, since Christian conquest the bell tower of the Cathedral. This is the only building shown in the essential European bird guide.
Interior decoration is, to a great extent, art, and with 1 bar/restaurant/pub every 200 people in Granada, there’s a niche for many professionals that can eventually breed some talent. That is the case of the Faragüit, an estate just off the city, that was apparently designed integrally that way
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Interior decoration is, to a great extent, art, and with 1 bar/restaurant/pub every 200 people in Granada, there’s a niche for many professionals that can eventually breed some talent. That is the case of the Faragüit, an estate just off the city, that was apparently designed integrally that way
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de Silicia y le dio una importante dote. Viuda de su primer marido, en 1580 Sofonisba se casó con Orazio Lomellino, un capitán de barco que apoyó incondicionalmente la profesión de su esposa.
Gracias al apoyo de su marido, junto con su destacada fortuna y la pensión recibida de Felipe II, Sofonisba
Gracias al apoyo de su marido, junto con su destacada fortuna y la pensión recibida de Felipe II, Sofonisba
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
de Silicia y le dio una importante dote. Viuda de su primer marido, en 1580 Sofonisba se casó con Orazio Lomellino, un capitán de barco que apoyó incondicionalmente la profesión de su esposa.
Gracias al apoyo de su marido, junto con su destacada fortuna y la pensión recibida de Felipe II, Sofonisba
Gracias al apoyo de su marido, junto con su destacada fortuna y la pensión recibida de Felipe II, Sofonisba
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Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian Renaissance artist, admired by Vasari, appointed court painter to Philip II of Spain, painted in 1624 by the young Anthony van Dyck; died in Palermo #OTD 1625. #Quatercentenary
Self-portrait c 1556 Łańcut Castle, Poland | Elizabeth de Valois c 1565 Museo del Prado
Self-portrait c 1556 Łańcut Castle, Poland | Elizabeth de Valois c 1565 Museo del Prado
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian Renaissance artist, admired by Vasari, appointed court painter to Philip II of Spain, painted in 1624 by the young Anthony van Dyck; died in Palermo #OTD 1625. #Quatercentenary
Self-portrait c 1556 Łańcut Castle, Poland | Elizabeth de Valois c 1565 Museo del Prado
Self-portrait c 1556 Łańcut Castle, Poland | Elizabeth de Valois c 1565 Museo del Prado
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2/2 Girl who does not take lessons seriously. But who is teaching who here? Drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
2/2 Girl who does not take lessons seriously. But who is teaching who here? Drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola.
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Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.
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Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.
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2/2 The artist's sister Minerva (great name!), painted in 1564 by Sofonisba Anguissola. It's her day today.
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
2/2 The artist's sister Minerva (great name!), painted in 1564 by Sofonisba Anguissola. It's her day today.
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Boy bitten by a crawfish, drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola. Her proud father sent this to Michelangelo to show what a talented daughter he had. Michelangelo agreed! Today is her day.
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Boy bitten by a crawfish, drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola. Her proud father sent this to Michelangelo to show what a talented daughter he had. Michelangelo agreed! Today is her day.
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1625, the remarkable painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Here, self portrait as a young woman, showing off her talents in 1556.
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1625, the remarkable painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Here, self portrait as a young woman, showing off her talents in 1556.
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J. G. Ballard commissioned Brigid Marlin to make copies of two Paul Delvaux paintings destroyed in the blitz. Here he is at home with "The Mirror".
📷 David Levenson, 1988
📷 David Levenson, 1988
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
J. G. Ballard commissioned Brigid Marlin to make copies of two Paul Delvaux paintings destroyed in the blitz. Here he is at home with "The Mirror".
📷 David Levenson, 1988
📷 David Levenson, 1988
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Remembering Georgia O'Keeffe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Remembering Georgia O'Keeffe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
If this last one looks homoerotic to well, almost everyone, it’s because it probably is qspirit.net/bernard-clai... Ribalta was, in the 17th century, rendering a very realistic interpretation of something that looks very obvious to 20th century eyes.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If this last one looks homoerotic to well, almost everyone, it’s because it probably is qspirit.net/bernard-clai... Ribalta was, in the 17th century, rendering a very realistic interpretation of something that looks very obvious to 20th century eyes.
As a matter of fact, this is a sculpture taken from this painting by Murillo upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Up to and including the foot on the world. The painting was requested from Murillo by the Capuchin order, the same hosted in this monastery. He’s rejecting the world, as if kicking it
Up to and including the foot on the world. The painting was requested from Murillo by the Capuchin order, the same hosted in this monastery. He’s rejecting the world, as if kicking it
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As a matter of fact, this is a sculpture taken from this painting by Murillo upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Up to and including the foot on the world. The painting was requested from Murillo by the Capuchin order, the same hosted in this monastery. He’s rejecting the world, as if kicking it
Up to and including the foot on the world. The painting was requested from Murillo by the Capuchin order, the same hosted in this monastery. He’s rejecting the world, as if kicking it
He’s not Saint Bernard but Saint Francis, Saint Bernard would have the white robe of a Cister monk, while this is obviously the brown tunic of a Franciscan (the mother lode of capuchin friars), so it would be Saint Francis. It represent the miracle of Jesus hugging the saint, which happened to both.
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
He’s not Saint Bernard but Saint Francis, Saint Bernard would have the white robe of a Cister monk, while this is obviously the brown tunic of a Franciscan (the mother lode of capuchin friars), so it would be Saint Francis. It represent the miracle of Jesus hugging the saint, which happened to both.
A quick one to show you this very unusual tetramorphos, reduced to logos, bull, eagle, person, lion, the four evangelists, placed symmetrically by the sides of a simple couple of crosses. This is the ramp to enter the sanctuary of Fray Leopoldo, a capuchin friar who lived in the 1960s.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A quick one to show you this very unusual tetramorphos, reduced to logos, bull, eagle, person, lion, the four evangelists, placed symmetrically by the sides of a simple couple of crosses. This is the ramp to enter the sanctuary of Fray Leopoldo, a capuchin friar who lived in the 1960s.
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'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
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This week on the podcast, we interview Andrew Graham-Dixon about Vermeer, lay into the BBC's arts coverage, and ask why royal portraits are so bad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
Waldy & Bendy | Season 5 | Episode 09: Why are royal portraits so ugly?
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November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This week on the podcast, we interview Andrew Graham-Dixon about Vermeer, lay into the BBC's arts coverage, and ask why royal portraits are so bad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
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Patriots for Russia
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Patriots for Russia