Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 5hWild how this is a totally different reason to mark October 12, 1492! 000
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7hWhile soldiers sleep, the ultimate miracle occurs. And the ultimate painting of it is Piero della Francesca, in 1462. Today is his day. 0375
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaInternet Archive @archive.org · 10/10/2026👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 🧵 326972
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The magic of @jcblibrary.bsky.social.. Charles Walker eminent historian of the Túpac Amaru rebellion, here to give the annual Bromsen lecture, points to a contemporary ref to Tupac that he’d never seen until… yesterday. 🤯🤓 0287
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/10/20262/2 Chien de Rolin: Pretty chuffed about being invited to the big event. 06411
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Chancellor Nicolas Rolin (and his little dog, too) attending the Nativity. As painted by Jean Hey, whose day is today. 38911
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Splendid triptych for cathedral in Moulins, 1498, by Jean Hey. Also known (because of this work) as Master of Moulins. Today is his day. 1829
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Margaret of Austria. When older, she governed the Netherlands for many years, and was also a great collector and patron. Here portrayed at age 10 in 1490 by Jean Hey, whose day is today. 315017
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Interesting points -- and part of what the research becomes is realizing the "preserved" stories may be false/misleading... I'm also reminded of the Hasidic "prayer in the forest" story: interruptingthesilence.com/2012/05/09/t...interruptingthesilence.comTell the Story - Interrupting the SilenceElie Wiesel tells the following story in his book, The Gates of the Forest: When the great Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov saw misfortune threatening the Jews it was his custom to go into a certain part of... 010
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaMichael Neill @mjnrootdig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can we really preserve anything "forever?" And is "forever" even really the goal? #genealogy 121
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Morning. Migrant Fruit Thugs, Fred Tomaselli, 2006. 114523
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Weekend's coming up so get ready to make merry with Jan Massys of Antwerp and his elegant friends, who are celebrating his day. 5779
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Ancestry DNA update is jaw-dropping, esp. for my Colombian side. It's emotional to see DNA links with 8 African peoples in "Igboland" and "Ghana/Western Togo." Proud to see Basque & Canarios get their due! "Mizrahi" is intriguing, England's a mystery. This layout's cute, just wish it wasn't AI. 010
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Filippo Lippi's wonderfully strange double portrait, 1440. He's not looking at her but into the empty space behind her. Her sleeve spells Faithful - but to whom? Great enigmas on Lippi's day. 212922
Reposted by Edward A. Ruedabryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143844734
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I literally arrived on Bluesky joking about how I arrived on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/mred... 010
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I thought Buffy Saint-Maire had re-died for a second... 010
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026These two 1st-2nd c. CE Roman marble theatrical masks represent comedy and Melpomene, muse of tragic theater. They were discovered in the peristyle of a ruined Roman villa of La Estación in Antequera, Spain. Note the little face of the actor behind the large open mouth of the comedy mask! 😆 🏺 📸 me 38423
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In a lush landscape, beautiful demons have come to tempt Saint Anthony with an apple. By Joachim Patinir with help on the demonic ladies from Quinten Metsys, 1520s. 38310
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Died (alas!) on this day in 1524, in Antwerp, Joachim Patinir, who basically invented landscape painting as an independent subject. Another big score for Antwerp! Here drawn by his friend Albrecht Dürer. 310015
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What do you all think of the "Ostentatio genitalium" theory of this Christian art? @chapps.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social 140
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The London Bach: composer Johann Christian Bach with sheet of music; painted in 1776, by his friend Gainsborough: with sparkle of silver tassels on brown coat, blue & silver silk waistcoat, & diamond ring; ruffled white lace cravat & cuffs loosely brushed in impasto. National Portrait Gallery London 2507
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaVincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands and her nephew - young - Emperor Charles V at her palace in Mechelen. Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium. 0212
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Morning. Nero, Emily Brontë, 1841. 113725
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour. 223135
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, being handsome & elusive & melancholy in 1610. Miniature by Isaac Oliver, who died OTD in 1617. 212321
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Goodnight. From Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, France, 1420. #Gothtober 214026
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Lady costumed for the masque, as a rather racy Flora. Painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver. Today is his day. 49212
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I never stopped to think what a "gamut" actually was. Great thread: 072
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes, it's familiar. Copy (of sorts) of the deesis from Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, painted in 1525 by the ever-entertaining Jan Gossaert, whose day is today. 0578
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Frescoed 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 18117
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Beckford’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 1406
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gravestone of Pompey Brenton in God's Little Acre, Newport, RI, 1772 This stone was carved by John Stevens III, who carved many portrait stones in the 1770s, including several for Black Newporters like Pompey Brenton. 1519
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Behold the future while beholding the past: 000
Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Rebbe, how would we describe the argument about what happens when a donkey kicks a lamp if precisely half of the argument was awesome and the other exact half was boring? 100
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026St 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 1368
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Imitate Christ. And collect sea shells! I’m sure that's the lesson here from Carstiaen Luyckx, on his day. 0558
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/20262/2 More snakes. And other creatures. All seeming extremely unwell. Carstian Luyckx, what was up with you? 1304
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fantastically odd still life: the world, the shells, and the snake. And can somebody explain to me the book illustration? A chaste Cimon & Pero? Why, Carstian Luyckx, why? 311514
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaSusan Abernethy @susanabernethy2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Six Fiancées of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2020/09/04/t...thefreelancehistorywriter.comThe Six Fiancées of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ~ A Guest Post by Heather R. DarsieThe Freelance History Writer is pleased to welcome Heather R. Darsie to the blog with a guest article. Heather is an attorney and the author of Anna of Cleves: The King’s Beloved Sister and the adm… 051
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaAnthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For this #MosaicMonday we look up into the spectacular presbytery vault of San Vitale in #Ravenna. To me, the Ravenna #mosaics are an astonishing collection, the last magnificent product of late antiquity. But whose empire does this shimmering C6 CE ceiling actually represent? #AncientBluesky 🏺 313733
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Four springer spaniels, plus hawk, just hanging out with their booty from the hunt. By Carstian Luyckx of Antwerp, whose day is today. 1535
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Animated skeleton just hanging out with his similarly dead friends and their favorite stuff in this bizarre memento mori by Carstiaen Luycks. It's his day. 315733
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaVincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#OTD in 1066, William of Normandy landed in Pevensey to start his quest for the English crown. His army also contained countless Flemings including colourful characters such as Gerbod the Fleming who became Earl of Chester. 0162
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaVincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#OTD in 1275, Duke Jan II of Brabant and Limburg was born. In 1312, he issued the Charter of Kortenberg, a milestone in European ‘constitutional’ history. Although that text (also covered rights for the poor) went further than the English Magna Carta it is somewhat forgotten 0154
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Words embossed on the surface of Simone Martini's altarpiece. Ave Maria was never so solid. 19114
Reposted by Edward A. RuedaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sala del Mappamondo, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, with magnificent Maestà (& more!) painted in 1315-20 by local genius Simone Martini. It's his day today. 18511
