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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10h

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13h

Master colourist: Pierre Bonnard, avant-garde French post-impressionist artist, printmaker, born #OTD 1867; intimate views of domestic life were inspired by Japanese art; member of Les Nabis, friend of Vuillard. Le Corsage à Carreaux 1892, Musée d’Orsay | La Salle à Manger 1913 @artsmia.bsky.social

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13h

William Morris, Arts & Crafts designer, translator of Icelandic sagas, founder of Kelmscott press, died #OTD 1896. Kelmscott Chaucer 1896, Stanford University | Snakeshead printed textile 1877, Victoria & Albert Museum | Portrait by George Frederick Watts 1870, NationalPortrait Gallery London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13h

View of Leiden, c. 1650, oil on oak panel painted by Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, versatile Dutch landscape artist, master of atmospheric, river scenes in silvery-grey tones, with low horizons & large skies. Amsterdam Museum

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13h

Basilica of Superga (1717-31), with elegant, perfectly balanced cupola; on dramatic hilltop site, with background of Monte Rosa Massif; acknowledged masterpiece of Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736), architect to the King of Sicily, designed late-Baroque palaces & churches in Italy, Spain & Portugal.

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Sunset View, Nominated Picture of the Day, November 26, 2025
Finalist in Picture of Year 2025
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 21h

Glastonbury Abbey

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lecturing at Chatsworth today.

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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

3rd day and last of #Skin2Script workshop, focus on script part i.e. writing on the parchment and sharing thoughts of the whole process And seeing some amazing mss to observe substrates, and to visit the conservation @theul.bsky.social

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tiny title page pasted in Jan Moretus’ New Years gift for Christophe Plantin with title pages of all editions printed at the time at the Plantin Press. #bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Clyde-based Waverley, world’s last sea-going paddle steamer, marks 80th anniversary. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Waverley paddle steamer marks 80th anniversary since launch

The Waverley passed through London's Tower Bridge as part of the anniversary voyage on the Thames.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The skylarks of early summer disappeared for a while. I've seen them recently at ground level, and today there were two up above. Lovely

A skylark with brown and pale freckles and with wings outstretched.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🍐This beautiful pear-shaped porcelain bottle from Japan is covered in a distinctive green flambé glaze. It was made by Ishiguro Kōkō of the Sumida Pottery in Tokyo, named after the nearby Sumida River.

Pear-shaped bottle with a green 'flambé' glaze

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Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es · 01/10/2026

El Museo del Prado y el Rijksmuseum de Ámsterdam inician una colaboración histórica en torno a las mujeres en el arte y la historia museodelprado.es/actualidad/n... #ElPradoenFemenino

"La infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia". Pedro Pablo Rubens y Jan Brueghel El Viejo. Hacia 1615. Museo Nacional del Prado

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

”There is always one moment in childhood, when the door opens and lets the future in." The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene, English writer, born #OTD 1904. Portrait Photograph 1939, National Portrait Gallery London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The man who changed the periodic table: Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist & Nobel Laureate, discovered the noble gases while Professor of Chemistry at University College London @ucl.ac.uk - born #OTD 1852; memorial at Westminster Abbey.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself…” Peter Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor 1691-1781, completed Kent’s memorial of Shakespeare, 1740, in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, and 14 busts, including Shakespeare’s at Trinity College Library Dublin.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

El Greco, 1541-1614, Greek artist of Spanish Renaissance, pupil of Titian, humanist & scholar, whose powerful & original paintings foreshadowed Expressionism and Cubism; influenced Degas, Manet, Cézanne and Picasso. The Disrobing of Christ, acclaimed altarpiece, c 1577 Toledo Cathedral

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palazzo Te, summer palace, 1524–34, of Duke of Mantua; with design & celebrated illusionistic ceiling fresco Stanza dei Giganti, by Mannerist architect & artist Giulio Romano 1499-1546. Pupil of Raphael, he was mentioned by Shakespeare in The Winter’s Tale as “that rare Italian master Julio Romano".

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#PortraitThursday – Marble portrait of an unknown ruler, possibly Sauromates II of the Cimmerian Bosporus, from the late 2nd century AD. He has idealised features, including flowing hair and a short beard. It was discovered at the Theatre of Dionysus in the 19th century. 📍 Acropolis Museum, Athens.

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The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New shows around England in October: Pre-Raphs at the Laing in Newcastle and Fitzwilliam in Cambridge Ravilious & more @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Lowry at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes Our preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-... Pic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Aurelia, 1863-73, Tate

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very pleased to have worked on this fascinating group of finds with the wonderful @francescatinti.bsky.social , and thanks to the comms team @cam.ac.uk for putting together the release. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/angl...

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Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s 'Little England'

The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

La cathédrale de Liège, Belgium Former rood screen door (la porte du jubé). These brass Louis XIII style doors were donated in 1643 by Dean Paul Simonis. #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday (actually brass 😉)

Brass double doors with plain edging to base & uprights. Panels contain foliage with roses. Also, low relief rounded with the name of the donor - Paul Simonis.

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Down by the Tweed and the towering arches of the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick earlier this week. Even as a Tyne Valley girl, one cannot help but admire the River Tweed...

A tall railway viaduct against a blue sky reflected in the still river underneath; a passing train overhead.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A sunlit south doorway at beautiful St. Mary’s Church in Yelden, Bedfordshire 😍 Not bad for over 600 years old!

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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcement: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. The Exeter Book is a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beckford’s Folly: Fonthill Abbey ‘desert of magnificence’ built for William Beckford, ‘England’s richest commoner’ (1760-1844), whose art collection included Bellini's Doge Loredan 1501, Raphael's St Catherine c 1507. National Gallery London | JMW Turner, Watercolour of Fonthill 1799, Bolton Museum

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Frescoed spiral staircase: Scala Regia of Villa Farnese (Caprarola) 1559-1573, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, great Italian Mannerist architect, assistant to Michelangelo. His two publications on classical orders & practical perspective, helped define classical canon. Polo Museale del Lazio

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Octobre Le Palais du Louvre, Paris In a field by the Seine, a man sows seed, raked into earth by a stone-weighted harrow behind a horse; magpies & crows ignore scarecrow archer & peck stray seeds. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 1412-16 Musée Condé Château de Chantilly

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Catherine Hartmann 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇧🇪 🇮🇪 @cathhart.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

'Typisch für meinen Wohnort / meine Heimat' #FotoVorschlag #ArtNouveau Maison Devalck Brüssel

Ein an der Fassade eines Stadthauses angebrachter, geschlossener Balkon bzw. Erker im Jugendstil.

Einige auf dem Foto erkennbare Besonderheiten:

Grün gestrichene Holzkonstruktion, die aus der Gebäudefassade hervorspringt.

Große Flächen aus Bunt- und Bleiglas mit charakteristischen Jugendstil-Motiven.

Dekorative Gestaltungselemente, darunter:

Fließende, organische Linienführungen.

Blumen- und pflanzenartige Formen.

Fächer- oder strahlenförmige Muster, die von kreisförmigen Zentren ausgehen.

Geschwungene und langgestreckte geometrische Formen im Holzwerk, typisch für den Jugendstil des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.

Passende Buntglaselemente in den benachbarten Fenstern, die darauf hindeuten, dass das gesamte Gebäude als stilistische Einheit entworfen wurde.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘The main purpose of his trip, however, was to study art. He had already written two novels, without any signs of success. A more viable career, he now believed, would be as an art historian’

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The beautiful shrine to St. Tibba, in Peterborough Cathedral 🤩 Tibba is the patron saint of falconers and is thought to have lived in the area that is now Rutland, during the 7th century.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Turner recorded White Herons In Britain in the 1500s which were the same size and shape as Grey Herons, he also recorded that the white birds were rare and that they sometimes hybridised with Grey Herons which Conrad Gesner mentions as hybrids were challenging intellectually.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As September comes to a close and autumn takes gentle hold it's time for the latest North Sea dispatches. This round takes in the regal, the forbidden and the unexpected. All testament to just how much the North Sea still matters.

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Royal yachts, a coveted Rembrandt and drama under the mudflats

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Eastern Orthodox church of the monastery of Stavropoleos in the heart of the Bucharest old town, built in the Wallachian renaissance style in the early eighteenth century.

Photo of the church from the outside. A small intimate building, it is painted white with green details and the images of saints.

Picture from the inside showing the interior of the cupola and the ceiling, with images of Christ and the saints.

The altar of the church, adorned with Greek Orthodox icons.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For #HillfortsWednesday the enormous, but heavily eroded, coastal promontory fort at Porth y rhaw, Pembrokeshire, in the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 🤩 The 5 metre+ high ramparts are among the most massive anywhere in west Wales. Excavations have revealed a long occupation 📷 My own, Saturday

A view along a cliff lined coast with the sea on the right & blue sky beyond

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Andrew’s Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. A #medieval angel roof “with a carved date of 1495, with the name of its donor, Christopher Peyton” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday

A medieval wooden roof of alternating tie-beams & hammerbeams. The hammerbeams have carved angels.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Jerome in early 16th Century collected glass in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge. He holds his Latin translation of the Bible, popularly known as the Vulgate, still in use by the Latin Church after various revisions and versions over the centuries. The lion he tamed in the desert looks up at him.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing. Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836. UK Government Art Collection

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Avenue at Middelharnis, 1689, road lined with alders, leads to village with church tower, port with masts; clouds on a low horizon; masterpiece of perspective by Meindert Hobbema, Dutch Golden Age artist 1638-1709, pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael; inspired Pissarro, Hockney. National Gallery London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Jerome in his study 1474, by Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina 1430-1479. Doctor of Church, known for translation of Bible into Latin (Vulgate), St Jerome sits amidst books, birds & plants; his lion (right) & verdant views beyond. #InternationalTranslationDay National Gallery London

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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The #Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) The barrel vault is painted with scenes from Genesis. Can you spot Noah's ark? The detail is of the building of the Tower of Babel. Great set of ornamental pillar capitals too. #Architecture