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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Nothing to make me feel older than realizing when I started writing about a certain set of prints they were "nearly 500 years old" and now they are "over 500 years old"...

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Such a pleasure to have contributed to this volume.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Research the afterlives of antiquity with access to rich archives and resources in Berlin, Rome & London. Apply now for the Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity. Open to pre- & postdoctoral researchers. 🗓️ Deadline: 8 June 2025 Find out more:

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Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Working on Malvasia and Parmigianino seem to give me trouble when it comes to searching for books for research.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Slide comparison: (l) Michel Maille, Ercole and Luigi Bolognetti, marble, 1681-83, Rome, Chiesa di Gesù e Maria (r) Statler and Waldorf, timeless

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 29/04/2025

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

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US Applicant Week

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

One of my favourite courses I ever took in undergrad was a history of architecture course for which we had to sketch to a theme each week. It is such an amazing way to see things in a new light, so I can only imagine how enriching this course would be.

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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you are teaching the Birds Head Haggadah it is indeed compulsory to include the pop-up version. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social 🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A friendly PSA for my fellow Canadians: the Americano as the name for the coffee drink is already a knock against Americans who were scoffed at by Italians for drinking watered down coffee, so please, I beg of you, don’t rename it the Canadiano. It’s not the clever move you think it is.

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Step-by-step instructions on building a cistern from a Vitruvius edition published in 1511. More in our rare books online exhibition, curated by the Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

📷 Vitruvius, De Architectura, 1511, 83r
📖 https://dlib.biblhertz.it/gf2001110

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I had so much fun going into the rare book collection @bhmpi.bsky.social to work on this online exhibition together with the rest of the Visualizing Science team!

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📣Call for Applications! 📣 The Department Michalsky welcomes Pre- & Postdoc Projects in its core research areas: Southern Italy and Naples, Cinematic Space, Historical Spaces, Epistemes of Cartography, New Methodologies in Medieval Studies. 🔗https://www.biblhertz.it/en/opportunities ⏳March 15, 2025

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

Detail from an Arabic-language manuscript showing a waqf stamp impression from the library of Rashid al-Din

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Last chance to be part of a truly amazing research group!

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Two new calls for fellows in two amazing intellectual environments!

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Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte @zikg.eu · 22/01/2025

#Provenienzforschung Zusammen mit dem Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project und der TU Berlin veranstaltet das ZI das Online-Seminar "NS-Raubkunst: Wie kann ich das recherchieren? Eine Einführung in drei Schritten". Interesse? Hier geht’s zum Programm: de.jdcrp.org/ns-raubkunst...

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In a piece about risotto in the @newyorker.com there was reference to an 1809 recipe being early, so I wrote in with two 1549 recipes and… my letter got published?! (I’ve never written a letter to the editor before in my life!)

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

New "First Research Article” fellowships 🤩 Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life." 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 16, 2024 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #HistSci #ResearchOpportunities

Top right: MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (2024). Photo: Marvin Müller.
Bottom right: Exterior view of the MPIWG building with its three-story architecture and the institute's library located in the lower level.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I have apparently lived in Rome long enough that I have an album of my favourite volutes. Points if you can guess where these are from. (Will give locations afterwards)

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The inaugural @bsky.app post from @bhmpi.bsky.social with a few reflections from a recent study trip to Barcelona and the surrounding area to see Manifesta15.

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Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just to say that if this is the link is censored for you, I can confirm it IS adult content in that there won't be many children with doctorates in early modern economic history, but the image is definitely safe for work.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Generally starting to like this platform, but have to say I find it hilarious that @bsky.app censored images I posted of early-16th c. engravings.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What a glorious printed version of Hrabanus Maurus's 9th century manuscript De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis. Takes me right back to the early medieval art courses I took in my undergrad.

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Opening today: "Albrecht Dürer. Defying Norms, Setting Standards" Graphische Sammlung, ETH / Zürich #earlymodern #arthistory #prints 🏛️ gs.ethz.ch/en/current/

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Got to revisit some of my favourite details of Marcantonio Raimondi’s earliest engravings made in Bologna between about 1501 and 1506 😍

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Will you be in Toronto on January 21? Do you like art? Do you like money? Then come to this public lecture I'll be giving at the University of Toronto! arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...

A poster for the Peter H. Brieger Memorial Lecture, which I'm delivering. The title is "Impressive Money: An Art History of Print before the Press," and it's taking place on January 21 at 5pn in the Jackman Humanities Building. The poster shows a gold coin next to a metal allow pilgrim badge in the shape of a gold coin, and next to it a baked clay impression of that pilgrim badge.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am continually fascinated by Fludd’s back square, both conceptually and materially. To depict this void required a substance: black printing ink. Which is composed of carbon: so the void or absence ends up depicted by the presence of burnt, earthly matter.

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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My home institution is now also here, please follow! Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social #art #earlymodern 🗃️ and so much more!

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Obsessed with this totally strange doubling that takes place in the corner of the arcade of the courtyard of Palazzo Venezia ca. 1460. You really get a sense of how the architect and sculptor were one in the same.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Out of procrastination, I suppose I will introduce myself, so 👋! My name is Ariella Minden. I'm a Canadian art historian working as wissenschaftliche Assistentin (scientific assistant) @bhmpi.bsky.social in Rome. (Here I am in my University of Toronto doctoral regalia).

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Someone had to say it! Just use a bowl to do the initial mix of your pasta fresca, then dump it out to knead.

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Bibliotheca Hertziana has arrived @bhmpi.bsky.social . Follow them for all things art history, visual and material culture, and more!

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It seems like Bluesky is picking up steam, so for my first post in almost a year, I present some comparison slides: (Cloister of the Monastery of Sant Cugat, ca. 1190)

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

The outcome of my research trip to Parma this past March:

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Magical Masolino in the Basilica of San Clemente ca.1428-30

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Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

It seems only appropriate that my first post should be of the blue sky on my walk into work this morning. The moon in dialogue with St. Paul stop the column of Marcus Aurelius.

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