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Larisa Grollemond

@larisag.bsky.social
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Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our medieval art curator rates every scroll emoji. 📜
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
sometimes eduroam works like it’s supposed to and it’s always a little bit of a miracle
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today in cute medieval skeletons, these two little buddies from Henri de Mondeville's La Cyrurgie (BnF fr. 2030, ca. 1314-20)
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
one thing about me is that I WILL be getting pumpkin cold foam in a world historic LA heat wave bc it is spooky season no matter what
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Imagine thinking this is an accomplishment when they can't even stop without launching themselves into a crashpad and breaking their arms off
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
we did it, joe. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/s...
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What’s the Best 🏛️ Emoji? Getty Museum Curators Have Thoughts. (Gift Article)
In a series of recent social media posts, curators at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles are rating the best variations on art-adjacent emojis.
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Back on emoji-rating duty 🫡
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's me, I'm the medieval art curator
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One of the biggest scams of the last few years is the rebranding of 100% polyurethane pleather into "vegan leather."
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This article needs a trigger warning for the video that's just a close up shot of book after book getting its spine cut off
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
my hottest medievalist take is that "accuracy" in any fictional media that engages with history is not only impossible, but it's never the point anyway, and we shouldn't care about it at all
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If only we could figure out how to convert the hot takes about AI on LinkedIn into a fuel source, we’d solve the energy crisis for generations
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
writing good alt text is really an art, and I am Not Good at it I fear
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
cursed object spotted on my 405 commute home: an electric green cybertruck with “cyberbeast” blazoned across the back in metal font
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A reminder to submit your 15th-century problems to the class for RSA 2027--deadline is July 15th! www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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Renaissance Society of America
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
the algae is really so funny, the perfect metaphor for the administration and probably the state of the country
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
LA! I'm doing a Q&A with director Caroline Golum after the screening of her new film, "Revelations of Divine Love," about your favorite anchoress and mine, Julian of Norwich, on June 23rd @2220arts.bsky.social --come see it! rotations-la.net/screenings/c...
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coming soon — Rotations a film series
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
normalize translating passages of Middle English even in writing that’s meant for other scholarssss omg
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
this rules
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Schongauer really is that girl
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The AI that lives in my Outlook like a gremlin and goes by the name Copilot is always prompting me "Give me 3 things to do," by which it means it will read all my email and give ME 3 things to do, and I couldn't hate anything more
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Resident medievalist/goth the venn diagram is often a circle
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨CFP: Fifteenth-Century Problems at Renaissance Society of America 2027 in Philadelphia! Do you work on the 15th century and frequently get irrationally angry at discussions of attribution, style, workshops, anonymous masters, and the fact that Vasari ruined everything?
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Met gala stylists should’ve talked to some art historians…these looks are…bad? They all seem quite effortful and sort of sadly literal
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
always talk to art historians www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Why Lauren Sánchez Bezos is storming the gates of the Met Gala
An art historian explains why Sánchez Bezos "will never be elegant."
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“Why does the sphinx have toes? Will it tickle me?” -my 5 yo out here asking the important questions on a Saturday morning
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Here's a beautiful thing for your Thursday, a German artist working through drawings of bookbindings and studies of Christ's loincloth, ca. 1490
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Medieval folk and especially medieval literature folk: looking for recs for recent writing/theorizing on the intersection of castles and sex/sexuality, could be medieval-y or medievalism-y
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Clavicular's government name is Braden, btw
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
JD VANCE says that the POPE should be CAREFUL when talking about THEOLOGY. If you're ever embarrassed about anything ever again, just remember that JD Vance once told the Pope to be careful when he talks about theology. I'll never get over this lol www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
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Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This was a very satisfying watch
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
me writing my little emails and reading my little books
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Jonathan lives! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, still alive despite reports of death
A widely circulated social media post purporting to belong to the tortoise's vet has been revealed to be a hoax.
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Not to be dramatic but this ruined my day and probably my year www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
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World's oldest known land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, dies at age 193
Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest-living known land animal, has died at an estimated 193 years old, according to his caretaker.
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The comments on NYT cooking recipes need to be studied. Like, if you see a recipe for a Double Coconutty Coconut Cake, why would you comment "I don't like coconut, any suggestions for substitutions?" Just don't make this COCONUT cake, Jan!
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
pleased (?) to report that AI does an absolutely terrible job of transcribing medieval manuscript text
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
AI in the healthcare claims submission process means it's now taking twice as long and is at least 120% more circuitous, repetitive, and annoying thanks I hate it
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
annual TEFAF FOMO
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If you missed our program with Harmonia Rosales and want to check it out, it's up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBZ...
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Creator/Creation: Conversation with Harmonia Rosales
YouTube video by Getty Museum
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
love being an art historian and all but damn, copyediting image captions have got to be one of the top 5 worst academic tasks
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
SCRIBE: hey man you know how to draw a frog right ARTIST: um yeah totally they have spots and long fingers and also an underbite with teeth SCRIBE: and they're small? ARTIST: no huge with arms and legs like people SCRIBE: yes exactly
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
this is wild and totally outrageous, boomers have to get out of the way
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I know everything has a price but the thought of dinosaur skeletons at auction evokes a deep sense of melancholy
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
my inbox currently has emails about bloodletting fleams and 14th century urine flasks, so I think I'm doing this whole medieval thing right
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Lovely to chat with Eva Baron of My Modern Met about Beginnings! mymodernmet.com/beginnings-g...
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How to Reimagine Middle Age Creation Myths for the Contemporary World [Interview]
At first glance, the exhibition 'Beginnings' may seem familiar. But thanks to the vision of the curators, there's a contemporary twist.
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A+ that single person bobsled is called “monobob” and that the announcers have to say it over and over with a straight face
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Cosmetic shade names are endlessly amusing to me, but goth cosmetic shade names go so hard. Like something called “unearthly doom” but it’s just a purple lipliner 😂
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Beth and I joined Tyler to talk about Beginnings on the latest Modern Art Notes, which also features Harmonia Rosales discusses her work in the show
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Beth and I will be in conversation with Harmonia Rosales about how her work in our exhibition "Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages" reframes familiar Creation narratives--online and in-person March 1st! www.getty.edu/calendar/har...
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Creator/Creation: Conversation with Harmonia Rosales | Getty Talks
Discover the ways medieval imagery influences Rosales's practice, and how this produces paintings that challenge and reframe historic works.
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