uglyrenaissancebabies:

Domenichino, The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven

Oh my god, birds looked really weird during the Renaissance.

Hey Mary, GO LONG !

Oh dear.

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Girolamo da Santacroce, The Annunciation, c. 1540

KAMIKAZE CHRIST

HONKHONK.

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Jan Gossaert. Madonna and Child. Oil on panel. 1527

Madonna and Child of the C-Cups

I just recently learned of the SINGLE GREATEST TUMBLR OF ALL TIME (if you happen to have a thing for art history and really enjoy mocking the hideous Baby Jesi of Medieval and Renaissance art - and who doesn’t?).  Seriously. 

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Our Holy Mother of Nicolas Cage

(alternately, Bethlehem Dangerous)

Old joke, but still funny.  Also, who painted this?  Why can’t I remember?  Art history fail.

Interestingly, I first took a quick look at this in my feed and thought it was c.1895.  In a number of ways it has some of the hallmarks of Pre-Raphaelite portraiture and the costume could almost be mid-1890s.  I had to do a double take to realise it is, in fact, a painting by Renaissance artist Pontormo. 

Well, in case you didn’t understand what the Pre-Raphaelites were going for in their work, it was something of a romanticised Renaissance thing. 

aldoushuxley:

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of a Lady in Red, 1532-1533.