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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Europe is living its most extreme heat event in its history with 6 days >40C at the end of September 41,3C yesterday at Seville Thousands of stations up to 5C above their late September records 4000+ stations in Western,Central and Northern Europe will break records next days.

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 22/09/2026

What is happening in and around Antarctica should be such a wake-up call! The Earth is progressively losing its ability to reflect heat which the oceans keep absorbing. Payback time is looming large on the horison. Where are the emissions emergency brakes?! Data: ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/ext...

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent [million km2] (PRILIMINARY)

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Encounter of David & Abigail, 1673, by #JeanneVergouwen ( #JohannaVergouwen, #JoannaVergouwen; Flemish, 1630-1714) who was baptized #otd, Sept 19; after Peter Paul Rubens. Held by Museo Nacional de San Carlos; source, pic.x.com/kTCFAgAlyo #womenartists #artherstory

A painting of an encounter in a landscape between a group of 6 unarmed people, mostly women, at left, kneeling; and a group of soldiers at right. In just about the middle of the painting is David, depicted from the side, wearing a red cloak, holding a staff in his right hand, his sword visible at his left hip.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Earlier today, Koller Auctions offered "Still life with flowers and a caterpillar on a marble ledge," mid 1690s, by Rachel Ruysch. It sold for CHF 370K (hammer), more than 4x the high end of the pre-sale estimate range of CHF 60K-80K! www.kollerauktionen.ch/en/departmen...

A painting of a small bouquet of flowers on a marble ledge. The predominant blossom color is white, but there are also touches of pink, red, and blue. In the foreground, a caterpillar arches to inch its way up a cut stem.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Virgin and Child, c. 1630-40, by #MariaFaydherbe (Flemish, 1587-1643), who was baptized #otd, Sept 12. Held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126716... #artherstory #womenartists

The physical description on the museum’s object page for this carved alabaster statuette reads, “This small-scale sculpture depicts the standing Virgin supporting the Child, who is placed on an elaborately carved architectural pedestal adorned with a cherub and scrolled ornament. The Virgin holds the Child’s right hand in hers, while her left hand supports him, resting on his left thigh. He holds the orb in his left hand. Both figures step forward with their left feet, looking downwards, smiling, as if the group was intended to be placed above the viewer. The Virgin has abundant hair, coiled up in two plaited buns on each side of her head, and falling down to her shoulders. She wears a cloak knotted at the front, the folds draped over her right arm. The Child wears a simple robe. The back of the sculpture is relatively plain, almost flat, with just a few shadowy folds carved on the back of the Virgin’s dress, implying the group was to be set into a niche or against a wall. It has suffered minor surface damage; marks on the top of both heads suggest that metal haloes may once have been affixed to them. The figures are placed on an integral irregularly shaped rectangular plinth, beyond which the Virgin’s left foot overhangs. It is monogrammed on the reverse at the lower right, the ‘MF S.’ interpreted as an abbreviation for ‘Maria Faydherbe sculpsit.’”

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pomegranates / Punica granatum, n.d., by #AnnSchweizer (South African, 1930-2014). Held in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, shirleysherwood.com/-SAP2998 #RoshHashanah #RoshHashanah2026 #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

A watercolor illustration of about 16 pomegranates of different sizes, shown from different perspectives, with a couple of branches interspersed. One fruit toward the top left is halved, showing the inside, including seeds. The artist's signature is at the lower right.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky, 1793, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). On view at the Norton Simon Museum, www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/M... #womenartists #artherstory

A painted portrait of a white-skinned woman with dark eyes and long wavy brown hair, wearing a gold scarf on her head that billows down her back. She stands outdoors with trees, hills and sky behind her. She wears a long-sleeved dark blue gown with gold trim; a 3-stranded coral necklace; and a gauzy white sash embroidered (?) with floral decorations at the ends.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Portrait of a young woman, C18th, by #AntoinetteGenevieveNavarre (sometimes seen as #MarieGenevieveNavarre; French, 1735-1795), who died #otd, Sept 7. Private collection? Source, www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Port... #womenartists #artherstory

A pastel drawing in subtle tones on brown paper of the head of a young woman, wearing a white cap with a blue ribbon.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Self-portrait, 1790, by #MarieGabrielleCapet (French, 1761-1818), who was born #otd, Sept 6. Location unknown; source, @artinsociety.bsky.social, artinsociety.com/forgotten-wo... #artherstory #womenartists

A drawing in somber tones (shades of brown and black) of a youngish woman in a long-sleeved dark gown with a V-neck seated in a ladderback chair, seated sideways facing the left edge of the artwork. She turns her head toward her left shoulder so as to look at the viewer. There is a drawing board in her lap, on which her right forearm and hand rest. She holds a stylus in her right hand. Her left elbow is bent so that her left forearm crosses her body, resting on the drawing board; her left hand rests on her right forearm just above the wrist.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Species of #heron in the pond of the Versailles in 1760, by #MadeleineFrançoiseBasseporte (French, 1701-1780), who died #otd, Sept 4. Held by @mnhn.fr; source, artherstory.net/madeleine-fr... #womenartists #artherstory #MadeleineFrancoiseBasseporte #hernaturalhistory

A study in watercolor on vellum of a standing heron with a black and white body and black wings, head lifted toward the artwork's upper left corner, with its beak open. There is a metallic-gold-colored rectangle painted around the picture, above and below which is some difficult-to-make-out handwritten text.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, n.d., by #VirginiaVezzi (or #VirginiadaVezzo; Italian, 1600-1638). Held by Robert Simon Fine Art, www.robertsimon.com/vezzi-salome #womenartists #artherstory #JohntheBaptist #MartyrdomofJohntheBaptist #PassionofJohntheBaptist

A framed painting on copper of a richly gowned and bejeweled white woman with brown hair, depicted at about half length, lifting before her (at her right, the middle-left side of the painting) a platter on which is the detached head of a white-skinned man with brown hair and a brown beard. The woman gazes out directly at the viewer. The scene fills the lower half of the painting and much of the upper half; the background is dark.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Angel of the Annunciation, 1663, by #ElisabettaSirani (Italian, 1638–1665), who died #otd, Aug 28. Held by Galerie Canesso, www.canesso.art/artworkdetai... #womenartists #artherstory Visit Art Herstory’s Elisabetta Sirani resource page at artherstory.net/elisabetta-s...

A bust-length painting of an angel wearing a textured bronze-colored chasuble over a white undergarment, with a red sash that circles around his neck and hangs down his chest. The angel faces the left edge of the painting, his longish brown hair flying out toward the right edge. He holds up his right hand at about chin level, forefinger extending up. In his left fist, held against his chest, he holds a single stalk of white lilies, with two fully blossomed flowers and three buds. The painting is signed in capital letters and dated 1663 along the neckline of the Angel’s chasuble.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

An oriole, n.d., by #FideliaBridges (American, 1835-1923). Offered at auction in 2013; source, www.mutualart.com/Artwork/An-o... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A watercolor drawing of a Baltimore oriole depicted standing sideways on a branch, facing the left edge of the paper, with its head lifted and its beak open.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A #Lizard with a Snail & a Snail Shell, C17th, by #GiovannaGarzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). Private collection; source, facebook.com/photo.php?fb... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory #WorldLizardDay

A tempera on vellum drawing of a snail at top left and at bottom left an empty snail shell with the opening side up. Depicted at the right is a green and brown lizard viewed from above, with its head facing the top of the page and its body curving in toward the middle of the page, and its tail curling toward the bottom of the page then up to the right such that the tip of tail touches its midsection, forming a near circle around the right hind leg.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Drawing for the tomb of Cardinal Mazarin, post 1661, by #PlautillaBricci (Italian, 1616-1705), who was born #otd, Aug 13. Held by National Library, Turin; source, "Plautilla Bricci (1616–1705): A Talented Woman Architect in Baroque Rome," artherstory.net/plautilla-br... #artherstory #womenartists

A drawing showing one side of a planned sculpture for a tomb, with about a dozen lines of handwritten text in the upper right corner.

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Es ist schon wieder passiert: Neuer nationaler Hitzerekord in Österreich mit vorläufigen 41,2° in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in Niederösterreich.

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Was für ein verrückter Tag in Österreichs Wettergeschichte. Hier die heutigen Höchstwerte: 41,0° Wien Stammersdorf 40,7° Langenlebarn 40,6° St. Pölten 40,4° Bad Deutsch-Altenburg 40,4° Wien Innere Stadt 40,2° Krems 40,2° Langenlois 40,1° Wieselburg 40,0° Gars am Kamp

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#Hibiscus, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: August, 1690-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by the Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5438... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A delicate rectangular, portrait-mode painting against a gold background of five pink hibiscus blossoms and leaves on stems that lean into the artwork from its right edge. There are two red stamps, one over the other, in the bottom left corner of the work. According to the museum's object page, “The hibiscus is called mufurong in Chinese and often used as a pun for ‘wealth’ (fu) and ‘glory’ (rong). Another name is ‘intoxicated hibiscus’ (zuijiu furong) because the pinkish white blossoms, which open early in the morning, turn crimson at night. One of nine flowers of autumn, the ancient name for the hibiscus was ‘resists frost’ (jushuang)."

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fiveforward @fiveforward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Danke :) Ist mir eine Freude 😊

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fiveforward @fiveforward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Selbstporträt an einem kalten Wintertag für das Finale von #proporly Danke @sagebock.eurosky.social für die schöne challenge 🤍😍🌷 #kleineKunstklasse #wattiskunst

Aquarellporträt einer Frau mit grauer Haube, brauner Sonnenbrille und schwarzem Schal bis knapp unter die Nase vor blauem Himmel.
Watercolour portrait of a female with grey beanie, brown sunglasses and black scarf just beneath her nose with a blue sky background.

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fiveforward @fiveforward.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Slightly abstract Northern Bald Ibis copper plate etching with aquatint, handprinted. Hunted to extinction in Europe it is now classified as endangered, thanks to successful breeding programs. Kupferradierung mit Aquatinta eines leicht abstahierten Waldrapps, handgedruckt. #birds #art #artforsale

Slightly abstract Northern Bald Ibis copper plate etching with aquatint, handprinted.
The Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) had already been hunted to extinction in Europe and was long considered critically endangered. Successful breeding programs, such as the one at Tierpark Rosegg and at Tiergarten Schönbrunn, are yielding results, and the species is now classified as endangered by the IUCN.
Kufperradierung mit Aquatinta eines leicht abstrahierter Waldrapps.
Der Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) war in Europa durch Überjagung bereits ausgerottet und galt lange Zeit als vom Aussterben bedroht. Erfolgreiche Aufzuchtprogramme, beispielsweise im Tierpark Rosegg
und im Tiergarten Schönbrunn zeigen Erfolge und er wird mittlerweile von der IUCN als als gefährdet (endagered) eingestuft.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A Still Life of Figs, Plums, and a Peach, on a Footed Dish, with a Partridge, n.d., by #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia ( #TheodoraCaccia, Italian, c. 1596-c. 1676), who died #otd, July 26. Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... #womenartists #artherstory #nuntastic

A painting of a largish gray bird with white markings around its head and neck, standing on a footed white tray that also holds figs, plums, a peach, some green leaves and a couple of stems with blue bell-shaped flowers. The bird faces toward the right edge of the painting, its beak just about touching a peach.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Urlaub in der Klimakrise. Keine KI, einfach ein Handyfoto, das ich vorhin am Strand von Lacanau (Frankreich) gemacht habe. In welchem Klima wird der kleine Junge aufwachsen? Es liegt in unserer Hand, aber die Zeit läuft uns davon.

Ein kleines Kind mit blauem T-Shirt sitzt an einem Strand mit Weltuntergangsstimmung. Rechts ist das Meer. Im Hintergrund ist eine riesige Aschewolke zu sehen. Das gesamte Bild ist orange-rötlich durch die Asche in der Luft.

Es sind mehr Menschen in der Ferne am Strand zu sehen.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Saint Justina of Padua, n.d., by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552–about 1638). Private collection? Sold by Dorotheum in 2024 for €91,000, www.dorotheum.com/en/l/8997335/ #womenartists #artherstory

A painting from the late C16th or early C17th, badly in need of restoration/conservation, depicting the head, shoulders, chest, arms and hands of a white woman with long blond hair. With her left hand she holds a closed red book at breast level; and she holds up a martyr's palm between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand. A dagger hilt emerges from the right side of her breast. According to the dealer's description, "The attributes of the book, a palm frond and a small sword in her breast, identify the present saint as Saint Justina of Padua."

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fiveforward @fiveforward.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Loose black and white value study in acrylics #fAdbKK #sketch

Loose black and white value study showing a person sitting under an umbrella, two cars (one light, one dark), some foliage and two houses in the background.

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 16/07/2026

“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation [(reduction of emissions)] we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be”—Dr John Holdren, 2007

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fiveforward @fiveforward.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nachtrag für #proporly Karl Marx in Aquarell leicht eskaliert 😅 #kleineKunstklasse #wattiskunst

Sehr lockeres Aquarell-Porträt von Karl Marx mit orange-blauem Haar und Bart und neutral grauen Augen und Nase.
Very loose watercolour portait of Karl Marx with orange-blue hair and beard and neutral gray eyes and nose.

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