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Madeline McMahon

@madmcmahon.bsky.social
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Historian, bibliophile, early modernist. Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)

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Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social is coming to town to discuss his fantastic new book, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece! Institute of Historical Studies, UT Austin, Feb 2nd.
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ann Blair - In the Scholar’s Workshop Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship À paraître en juillet aux Princeton UP
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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On Pedantry
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice
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Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
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The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
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The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy! #histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma
Book titled The State Drug by Di Gennaro Splendore in a carton box
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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#earlymodern
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/08/2025
‘Colón envisioned his library as a vast and accessible information machine. He recorded details about the acquisition of every book – date, place, price, even the exchange rate.’ Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles
The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Job Opportunity! Texas A&M University-San Antonio - Tenure-Track Medieval / Early Modern European History networks.h-net.org/jobs/68892/t...
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio - Tenure-Track Medieval / Early Modern European History | H-Net
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Job Opportunity! Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...
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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) | H-Net
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Donna A. Seger @daseger7.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hello #renaissance #reformation & #earlymodern historians: I'm really trying to rev up my Ren&Ref course this syllabus time: any inspiring/successful monographs, sources, websites that you could recommend? Melchior Lorck, Satire on the Papacy @metmuseum.org. Thanks!
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊
Book cover
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Katrina Olds and I are organising one or two panels at next year's @rsaorg.bsky.social in tribute to the amazing and much missed A. Katie Harris. If you have an paper touching on #earlymodern Catholic scholarship, relics, forgery, etc. please do send us something! www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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Renaissance Society of America
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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/mat... Hopefully this works!
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Matthew Parker’s Portrait
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ the old adage tells us. Despite being the first portrait engraved in England, the portrait of Matthew Parker (1504–1575) from the College Statutes (CCCC MS 582) h...
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
With a keynote address by Sachiko Kusukawa on "how emblematic worldview shaped early modern scientific thought and representation, from Vesalius and Brahe to Gessner, Camerarius Jr, and Boyle." #earlymodern #HistSTM
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Giorgio Caravale, A suon di polemiche: Eresia e controversia dottrinale nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025; #skystorians): www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/a-s...
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A suon di polemiche | Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
In un’epoca come il Cinquecento in cui le frontiere dei grandi monoteismi e gli equilibri interni alle singole confessioni vacillavano, i protagonisti del dibattito religioso furono particolarmente in...
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New book mail yesterday, Anthony Grafton's work on #earlymodern magic and the age of Faust. In the current environment I'm also reminded of remarks in his Girolamo Cardano book referring to 16th-century astrologers as the economists of their day: 🙄 📗 📉 bookshop.org/p/books/magu...
My hand holding a paperback copy of Anthony Grafton's book "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa", recently ordered from biblio.com.
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Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... #earlymodern
A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Oh this will be a treat! Between now and publication date, why not tuck into Kate's superb @historicaljnl.bsky.social article on 'Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'? Free to read open access and a fantastic piece of scholarship.
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Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary - Volume 65 Issue 5
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks to my department for combining my and my colleague's Leverhulme Trust teaching buy out into an almost full time (0.9) 1 year post 👇 - Application deadline 16th April #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
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Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk!
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
ICYMI: New episode, with acclaimed historian Lyndal Roper about her new book, SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD, on the German Peasants' War. This conversation was a delight, featuring lots of maps, bike rides, and the wisdom of a long and productive career! Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Podcast graphic with a photograph in the left of a smiling woman with glass and long white hair. On the right, teal text reads "Drafting the Past episode 62: Lyndal Roper."
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/03/2025
‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"The New Kingdom of Granada," by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Read the intro for free on our website! #LatinAmericanStudies #History buff.ly/dHQmPB2
Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.
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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Valeria López Fadul, The Cradle of Words. Language and Knowledge in the #SpanishEmpire press.jhu.edu/books/title/... #HispaniaImperial #EarlyModern #HistoriaIndiana #Philology via @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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The Cradle of Words
Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire
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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
oh, this is good, ye #earlymodern folk and language nerds 🐦🐦
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Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez @smunozar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hi everyone, my book is here!! And there‘s a 50% off flash discount at Duke today and tomorrow using FLASH50!!
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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Truly a rich crop for the early modernists
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Heraldry became an obsession for many in Elizabethan England Former Master of @corpuscambridge.bsky.social, Archbp Matthew Parker (d. 1575) did not just participate in this trend but served to heighten and develop it @harryspillane.bsky.social shows us how: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/mat...
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Matthew Parker’s Heraldry
Dr Harry Spillane discusses various coats of arms associated with Matthew Parker that are still visible in the College collections and beyond
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In a very tough week, suddenly some amazing news lands in my inbox. The Basque Witch-Hunt won the PROSE Award for Best European History book of 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/unit... #earlymodern 🗃️
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United States Prose Awards: 2025 Category Winners
With 101 shortlistees, the AAP's PROSE Awards for academic, scholarly, and research publishing announces 37 category winners.
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just a reminder for all the folks who are teaching classes/seminars with material texts at heart (or advising groups of grad students in that area), I'm happy to zoom in to talk about PBSA, what bibliography can mean to us, & what submitting to PBSA entails. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pbsa/cur...
Cover an academic journal, colors are red and white. The title reads Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Some wood letterpress type of the letters A through I are locked up in a forme as the cover image.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hoping to organize a session for 2025 Sixteenth Century Studies on women and community building--deliberately not restricted by geography or faith. Mine would be on Spanish nuns who travel to create new convents within the peninsula. DM me if you're interested.
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Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In this essay, I have analysed the Portuguese translation of an important catechetical work by the Jesuit missionary Roberto Nobili. I have sought to highlight how the concept of "Catholicity" could take on an "accommodationist" connotation in early modern South India. www.academia.edu/127918568/
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Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili
Aranha, Paolo. “Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili.” In "Il Simbolo nella t...
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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is interesting! My new book on Gráinne with @yalebooks.bsky.social will be out in 2027. Looks like the film is leaning into the folklore rather than the history. Bet it won’t be anywhere NEAR as funny as the podcast episode we did on her on You’re Dead To Me. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Grainne O’Malley
Greg Jenner takes us to 16th-century Ireland to meet pirate queen Grainne O’Malley.
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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen. 🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tomorrow (February 11) at 4 pm EST: The Institute for Advanced Study welcomes Jérémie Koering for a discussion of his new book Iconophages. He will be joined by IAS Professor Maria Loh and IAS Professor Emeritus Yve-Alain Bois for a panel discussion. Register to attend: www.ias.edu/events/histo...
Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Jérémie Koering
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's THAT Time Again #SuperbOwl #MementoMori
Round engraving of an owl on a skull on a plinth.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Uno dei miei grandi eroi accademici: Antonio Ciaralli su Armando Petrucci (Insula europea; #skystorians, #philology, #bookhistory) www.insulaeuropea.eu/2025/01/29/a...
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Armando Petrucci­ - Insula europea
«Codicologia e bibliografia (cioè, secondo l’onnicomprensiva definizione inglese, “bibliography”); storia dell’editoria e del commercio librario, storia della scrittura (delle scritture) e storia dell...
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excited to present some new work. #earlymodern #nuntastic #convents
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Sailing with the French @sailingwthefrench.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Margaret Schotte is happy to be sharing a snippet from our project next Monday, 9am EST/3pm CET. Join virtually to hera the tale of "The Carpenter’s Notebook: A Maritime Love Story (France-India-Spain)" www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-...
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The Prize Papers Talks
Online Lecture Series of the Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London/Göttingen)
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
this tweet inspired me to do some fun nerd stuff on here. so nerds, what’s your favorite library? i have two, both very personal: the first is uchicago’s harper library (now a reading room) and the second is the nashville public library, which is a stunner.
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This lecture series from the Centre for the Study of #Medicine and the #Body in the #Renaissance looks rad. #medieval #earlymodern #women #childbirth #skystorians #academicsky #whatshistory #historysky
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Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine - CSMBR
This series explores women's contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Online seminar about publishing in academic journals. Please share with grad students and early career scholars. www.rsa.org/events/Event...
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters, by Quentin Skinner muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... - tapestry of an intellectual life (or 'intellectual biography') with much food for thought 📖 #skystorians #earlymodern #academicsky
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Project MUSE - J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
More writing on a snowy Sunday morning. Help me out #earlymodern folks: I'm looking for works that conceptualize/theorize what we mean when we say "household." I think we all have an idea of what it means as a convenient shorthand, but I want to unpack the idea a bit more. Readings, thoughts?
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web! How do you celebrate a full-scale digital MS library online? By publishing our latest MS acquisition! Our Director, Philippa Hoskin, describes the gift: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/par... Stay tuned for interviews marking the anniversary!
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Parker's Gift
The Parker Library publishes a new digitised manuscript from the 16th century
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
For those of you in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Carmen Ripollés will be speaking on 17th-century Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos on Jan 30, in advance of her forthcoming book on the artist meadowsmuseumdallas.org/cal/lecture-... #earlymodern #skystorians
Josefa de Ayala (Spanish-born Portuguese, c. 1630–1684), "Still Life," c. 1680. Oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (64 x 100.3 cm). Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase with funds from The Meadows Foundation, MM.2023.03. Photo by Robert LaPrelle.
"The newly acquired Still Life (c. 1680) exemplifies Ayala’s prowess in creating dynamic and intricate compositions. The painting features an array of fruits, vegetables, and flowers arranged on a dark ledge, a device common among still-life painters active in Iberia including Juan Sánchez Cotán and Juan van der Hamen. Some of the fruit and vegetables Ayala includes have clear biblical and Christological connotations: the melon, onions, and cucumbers that sustained the Israelites in the wilderness; the apple that makes it fateful appearance in the Book of Genesis; and the ripe grapes used to make the wine of the Eucharist. However, she completes the composition by including cherries and figs, pears, leafy greens, and non-edible decorative elements like flowers. The inclusion of small insects adds a special touch, very much characteristic of Ayala’s work, and showcases her keen observation and ability to break the stillness of her compositions with life. All of this is painted with a deep understanding of the visual impact of tenebrism, with its dramatic contrasts between light and dark, and which further enhances the three-dimensionality and realism of the scene." -Meadows Museum of Art
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Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Congrats to all recipients: research.utexas.edu/news/three-f...
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Three Faculty Members Honored with 2024 University Research Excellence Awards
Three scholars have been recognized with a University Research Excellence Award, one of the most prominent symbols of peer recognition at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am incredibly proud to share the CFP for the first issue of "Riflesso: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal of Italian Studies." Fellow Italian Studies instructors, circulate it with your students! The Editorial Board welcomes essays & creative pieces dealing with any aspect of Italian culture.
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