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Laura Foster

@fosterlaura.bsky.social
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Asst Prof of Art History at John Cabot University, Rome. Early modern institutional architecture and urbanism. Also gender studies, 18th c. stuff. Also politics and cats. Opinions here are my own.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
your periodic reminder that such a statue is never the man, it’s always just a memory of the man that communities and societies must have the right to choose whom, what, how and when they wish to remember and that those choices have to be able to change over time
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/12/2024
When people tell me their sick but still “pressing on” I tell them don’t Stop pressing Sickness is your body telling you to stop
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fantastic news! Just the person who is needed
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With students today at Piranesi’s S. Maria del Priorato, even more spectacular with the fall colors in the surrounding gardens
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Is there anything I can tell you about what’s going on in Rome right now?
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Astounded by the number of real followers I have been able to accumulate in such a short amount of time here. Hello and thanks to all! I try to curate so rest assured if you are promoting crypto it’s an instant block. Trolls and fake accounts have really begun to seep in the last week
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
In 1693, a Manila Galleon full of goods and bound for Acapulco, wrecked on the coast of what is now Oregon, never reaching its destination. A craftsman from the Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples made this arrowhead (in the Tillamook Pioneer Museum) out of Qing dynasty porcelain from the wreck.
A projectile point made from blue-and-white Chinese porcelain
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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is my go to a #StarterPack for Architecture and the Built Environment. Please take a look! go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ultimately, we are in a new tech-capitalist era where the humanists / humanitarians / liberal arts minds / pro-social designers will need to fight harder than ever to safeguard humanity and nature. Particularly women, LGBTQ, and Black— everyone who is not a rich white broligarch.
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thinking of a time between c.1490-1525 when painted facades likely dominated the center of Rome. There are just a few scattered examples of this sgraffito left. This on is on via del Moro in Trastevere.
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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Fellowships and Grants
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Attending a session of the Early Modern Rome 5 conference at the Archivio Storico Capitolino and, lo and behold, Borromini’s Oratory is open!
Interior view of the Oratory designed by Borromini
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
CFP: John Cabot’s interdisciplinary conference on Trastevere. Happy to answer any questions.
Description of the Call for papers for the Trastevere M2 conference to be held in April 2025
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
After a hard week with lots of internal turmoil about what will happen to the world in the next months, it’s so nice to see new communities forming on this app. In thanks for new followers, here are a few peaceful images of Montefiascone, on Lake Bolsena, taken last weekend
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
CFP: John Cabot’s interdisciplinary conference on Trastevere. Happy to answer any questions.
Description of the Call for papers for the Trastevere M2 conference to be held in April 2025
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Greetings from the new sofa, aka my new grading station. (Yes, we have a book and cd storage situation on our hands.)
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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A starter pack for early modernists... Very incomplete go.bsky.app/CNhYz12 #earlymodern #earlymodernists #earlymodernsky
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
While on the Gianicolo last weekend, took the opportunity to visit the Tempietto, which I haven’t had the chance to visit since before the pandemic.
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Am I finally migrating here from Twitter? I think so. So here are a few photos from the Accademia degli Arcadi Bosco Parrasio that I took last weekend.
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Today’s sopralluogo: Palazzo Altemps.
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Getting into the Halloween spirit thanks to the Confraternita dell’Orazione e della Morte
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Laura Foster @fosterlaura.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Just finally getting set up here. Lots to say. So little time. So here are some photos I took last week at the convent of SS. Trinità dei Monti: ruin room by 18th-century artist Charles Louis Clérisseau.
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