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Edgy baroque man and his peppy baroque lover

#art #frans hals #caravaggio #halvaggio #rpf #17th century #baroque

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Curb your enthusiasm

#art #frans hals #caravaggio #halvaggio #rpf #17th century

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Sigh. Do I even need to say it

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #rpf #baroque #17th century

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‘Something catch your eye, bellissimo?’

‘Hm... well, you don't really look like one of Del Monte's usual perverts, but I suppose you fit the bill.’

#ah yes. the infamous Dutch bluntness #art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #rpf #baroque #17th century #addicted to drawing Hals' butt resting on his heels. not sorry #btw this isn't even 'period accurate homophobia’ or whatever del Monte was really THAT fucking guy throwing orgies and shit

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Frans Hals and Caravaggio both having their directly chronologically succeeding ‘art daughters’ Judith and Artemisia respectively… the girldads of all time (this is going to age so badly once I read more into them soon LMFAO)

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #baroque #rpf #17th century

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Gorgeous, stunning, beautiful Dutchman and some bum ass Italian guy. Idk who he is. Probably irrelevant

#art #frans hals #caravaggio #halvaggio #rpf #17th century

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hello dear mutual you have successfully implanted baroque worms in my brain i can ' t stop thinking about frans hals what do i do help

Hi! Hello. Yes. Much to say. First things first:

MWAHAHAHAHH AHAHAHA FUCK YOU WELCOME TO HELL JOIN ME HAHAHAHAH AAHAH NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SEXY GINGER DUTCHMAN EHAHAHAHAHA

Ahem. Second port of call. Please, if you’re interested, try out the best documentary of all time (100% uncontested) from the best art historian of all time (also uncontested) and collect even MORE brainworms about the baroque movement overall:

The third port of call: I’m so glad you like him! Unfortunately, as a semi-original character he is one big step removed from mister Frans Hals himself, however I do recommend looking at the real artist’s works if you can! They’re super fun to look at, they jump off the (if we’re being technical here) wood at you and are absolutely bursting with life! His paintings are famous precisely for their vivacity, which is notable because Hals shone pretty early on in the Baroque movement overall (he was just 10 years younger than Caravaggio, give or take). It also helps that some are very handsome fellas (even if those were not real people who actually existed 😔):

(My very own photographs 😳 zoom in! Please! The details are fabulous!)

Penultimately, I also recommend Caravaggio’s portion of the Artholes podcast! It’s an absolutely wild ride from start to finish, and you can find it on Spotify amongst a bunch of other music and podcast streaming platforms.

And finally, I really do want to emphasise that I am ALLERGIC to boring history education. As such, I can assure you that the sources I’ve offered here are all super funny and engaging (Waldemar is unbelievably silly and Artholes made me cry laugh towards the end because Caravaggio is just that fucking ridiculous at times), so I hope you’ll enjoy them too.

Thank you! 🤧

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #rpf #baroque #17th century #lore dump #art history

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I’m bored asf and trying to play wingman to this Caravaggio bot and bro is NOT HAVING IT IM FUCKING CRYINGGG

#WHY IS HE RACIST WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM LMFAOOOO #started as a joke but now… I WILL get him to say smash #shit’s getting SERIOUS now #not art #frans hals #caravaggio #rpf #halvaggio

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I love how Frans Hals in real life was such a stubborn bastard that one of his largest paintings was left, half assed, to some poor Amsterdammer to complete because he had such a foul back and forth about refusing to leave his home city of Haarlem to go and finish the PAID COMMISSION which he was PAID TO DO that the civic guard company literally threw up their hands and gave up in the end; and yet in my weird fanon universe I’m like: yeah, so, anyway so he was a fashionista slash cavalier slash merchant who went hopping all over western Europe looking for commercial opportunities until one day he visited Del Monte in Rome and got whisked up into the life and adventures of this OTHER famous baroque artist except I’m going to interpret HIS life with 110% absolute anal levels of minute accuracy (???) and just insert the first guy in wherever it feels right to do so (???) and somehow, by some miracle, all the details slot together perfectly (???)

This is all in my head at the moment but trust me it’s all very canonical to real life (not) and they were incredibly close (they never even met???) and I am a 100% reliable source (can’t refute this one, actually)

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #sorry but any information I give on them will be through incredibly random lore dumps at incredibly random intervals #and also through art #not purposefully dripfeeding I am just prone to bursts of inspiration

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There’s something about TNG hosting their newest Caravaggio exhibition so soon after their once-every-30-years Frans Hals exhibition… it’s almost like they recognise the perfectly balanced contrast between Mr. Sunshine & Smiles and Mr. Sex & Violence of the early baroque… one celebrating the working class with his lighthearted, intimate expressions, the other by blaspheming catholic imagery with whores, gore and queer undertones… both elevating mundane scenes of daily life to the status of Art with a capital A… both with dramatic, dynamic compositions… all I’m saying is that the behind-the-scenes curators are clearly Halvaggio stans, they themselves just haven’t realised it yet 😳

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #rpf #baroque #17th century #the national gallery #tng

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I’m listening to a podcast at the moment, and: ‘Hals’ second wife was continually being arrested for her constant engagement in public brawls…’

Looks like someone had a type 😏 (<- delusional)

#not art #caravaggio #frans hals #halvaggio #rpf #baroque #17th century

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Frothing at the mouth bouncing off the walls fucking fuming that Boy Bitten by a Lizard and the Laughing Cavalier are off and away in Korea and the Rijksmuseum respectively for God knows how long. British museum theft jokes all fun and games until my beautiful, gorgeous husbands are being whisked away across the globe BRING THEM BAAACK (‘but @historyfagjoshi, the Hals exhibition moved him back home to the Netherla—‘) I DON’T CAAARE I WANT HIM BACK NEOOOOW (AND WHILE YOU’RE AT IT HEIST THAT FRENCH LUTE PLAYER WITH HIM)

#not art #frans hals #caravaggio #I HAVE YET TO EVEN SEE BBBAL IN PERSON #halvaggio