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Caravaggio and his self-portraits

So I did a little post about Caravaggio’s strange and quirky self-portraits because I’m a big nerd. If nerdy people writing about tormented artists is your thing, please have a readipops. Sorry about saying readipops. My post isn’t as bad as this summary makes it seem.

Not my favourite of his, but a beauty nonetheless. And this is a gorgeous version.

Neil Hannon ~ A lady of a certain age

Actually Cyke, I think Wolvie would be very interested in that mole. Or maybe I’ve just been reading way too much X men slash. boysenberrypie: Rogue and Belladonna need to have a buddy roadtrip, where they get drunk and gossip about Gambit.  Issue: Ghost Rider #26 (1992) Writer: Howard Mackie Artist: Ron Wagner

Actually Cyke, I think Wolvie would be very interested in that mole. Or maybe I’ve just been reading way too much X men slash.

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Rogue and Belladonna need to have a buddy roadtrip, where they get drunk and gossip about Gambit. 

Issue: Ghost Rider #26 (1992)

Writer: Howard Mackie

Artist: Ron Wagner

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30 Day Jane Austen Challenge

29. Favourite character back story or secret.

Probably Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill’s secret love affair. Okay, so he’s a bit of a knob and she’s an over achiever, but their story is pretty well fleshed out considering it’s used as a device for Emma to make even more mistakes to learn from.

30 Day Jane Austen Challenge

30. Character you most relate to.

As much as I’d love to say Lizzy, it has to be Catherine Morland. I’ve always got my head in a book and my imagination tends to run riot.  Although not as naïve as Catherine, I do live in fantasy land sometimes. Like Miss Morland I am generally a good judge of character, but don’t always get it right. Oh! And funny, witty men make me want to drop my knickers.

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—Fur Elise

A techno remix of Beethoven, why not?

Ladybird enjoys Mansfield Park Taken with instagram

Ladybird enjoys Mansfield Park

Taken with instagram

rcglasses: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,The Inspiration of St. Matthew, 1st version,1602.Oil on Canvas  another Caravaggio. I’ve never seen this one before but it’s very intriguing. This painting was commission for an alter piece but was rejected for a later version by Caravaggio. This one was destroyed in Berlin in 1945. I love how he doesn’t give a shit about propriety and all that. I mean, look at the angel. Wonderfully painted and those gorgeous wings, but standing way too close to St. Matthew. And St. Matthew looking like a “village idiot” according to the priests of the church. I prefer this to the one he did afterwards. It’s far more intriguing.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
The Inspiration of St. Matthew, 1st version,
1602.
Oil on Canvas 

another Caravaggio. I’ve never seen this one before but it’s very intriguing. This painting was commission for an alter piece but was rejected for a later version by Caravaggio. This one was destroyed in Berlin in 1945.

I love how he doesn’t give a shit about propriety and all that. I mean, look at the angel. Wonderfully painted and those gorgeous wings, but standing way too close to St. Matthew. And St. Matthew looking like a “village idiot” according to the priests of the church.

I prefer this to the one he did afterwards. It’s far more intriguing.

Reading up on Caravaggio. It’s safe to say this fella embodied the trope; ‘Magnificent bastard’

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The Animated series theme tune has been crying out for this. Epic.

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