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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Young man with very serious love lock in 1632, painted by Cornelis Johnson, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Woman in blue. Distracted for a moment. Painted in 1639 by Cornelis Johnson, who was born on this day in 1593.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sadly lacking its original frame but still a stirring sight, the great Polyptych of the Misericordia, painted by Piero della Francesca. It's been his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Died (alas!) on this day in 1678, Caesar van Everdingen of Alkmaar. Painter of histories and of portraits. This one of himself, in 1675.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bust of Venus. Cupid has been beheaded. Troubling conceit from 1665 by Caesar van Everdingen, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A little girl poses as a huntress (Diana) in 1655 for Caesar van Everdingen.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Portrait of a very contented two-year-old boy with an apple, and his little goldfinch. Painted by Caesar van Everdingen, whose day is today.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Snail meets squirrel The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6; The Rylands Sephardi Haggadah; 1335 CE-1340 CE; Catalonia, Spain f.33a @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Equally fed up with the whole portrait thing. Still got painted by Georg Pencz, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Elisabeth Schwetzer made a very poor choice of headgear to be painted in 1544 by Georg Pencz. But one senses that she wasn't really that invested in the portrait-sitting process to begin with.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg in a previous life, and with A+ codpiece: seated youth painted in 1544 by Georg Pencz, whose day is today.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Presenting the saturday night camel chorus line! BL Cotton Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.39r @blmedieval.bsky.social
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We don’t have the moral authority to tell other countries to ban child marriages as long as we retain this abusive practice at home — defended by impractical zealots at both ends of the American political spectrum,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | How Is Child Marriage Still Legal in the U.S.?
Children are still allowed to marry here in the United States because of zealots on the left and right alike.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for 'Salads for Good: Recipes and Stories from the Cook for Good Community' by Cook for Good. The book is being sold via a Crowdfunder campaign (see link) and all proceeds go to charity, details in second photo below www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/salads-for...
Photograph of 'Salads for Good: Recipes and Stories from the Cook for Good Community' by Cook for GoodCook for Good is a social enterprise based in London’s Kings Cross working to tackle food insecurity, social isolation, and barriers to work through a programme that includes free cooking classes, community meals, training and work experience, and a surplus food pantry. All profits help tackle food insecurity, social isolation, and barriers to work.
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Likely #OnThisDay - 8 October - in AD 316 the Battle of Cibalae was fought, which saw the antagonism between Constantine and Licinius come to a head. The latter was soundly beaten, though survived the battle himself. #History 🏺 Image: RIC VII Nicomedia 11. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Obverse of a Roman aureus: Head of Licinius, laureate, right.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Died (alas!) on this day in 1469, the not-very-friarly Fra Filippo Lippi. Great renaissance painter, & father of Filippino Lippi. Here looking at you from corner of his own Coronation of the Virgin.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2/2 Really, the niche for the water flask is everything. From Lippi's Martelli Annunciation, 1440.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The truly spectacular Martelli Annunciation from the church of San Lorenzo. This one is so good -- Mary's gesture, the pure flask of water in its special little niche, the back-up angels, the arches and the space. Wow, Filippo Lippi, A+.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2/2 Such a perfect profile on this far less enigmatic woman painted by Filippo Lippi.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Filippo 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.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For the day of Fra Filippo Lippi of Florence, a gold-curtained Madonna from 1446 to tie back to yesterday's artist. But the rest of today won't be about gold.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fra Filippo Lippi (a monk, n.b.) stricken by love for his model, as imagined by Paul Delaroche in 1822. Crazy French romantics! I'm sure it wasn't really like that. Or maybe it was.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Life of Saint Catherine on the wall at San Clemente in Rome, painted in 1430 by Masolino da Panicale. Today is his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saint Jerome, resolutely penitent in his little shed despite beauties of Patiner’s landscape all around, 1515. Today is Patinir’s day.
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#OnThisDay - 5 October - in AD 578 the Eastern Emperor Justin II died. Said to have been afflicted with 'madness' in his reign's final years, his wife Sophia and adopted son, Tiberius, acted as regents from AD 574. #History 🏺 Image: British Museum (B.10404). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Obverse of a gold solidus: Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Justin II, front, holding Victory on globe and shield.Reverse of a gold solidus: Constantinopolis seated with head right, holding sceptre and cross on globe (globus cruciger).
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2/2 Wonderful flaming red sky above a very distant city in Patinir's Triptych of the Hermit Saints.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
John the Baptist, Jerome, and Anthony, reunited in 1518 for the Triptych of the Hermit Saints. Gorgeous landscape! Life of a hermit doesn't seem too bad when painted by Joachim Patinir.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2/2 Best part of Patinir's painting: two gold feet on a stone. All that's left of an idol that knew it couldn't compete against Christ & so self-destructed. Sad!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pensive Mary quietly rests and feeds her baby on the way to Egypt, before a completely amazing landscape that includes lots of thwarted idolatry & miracles! By Joachim Patinir of Antwerp, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Margarete Hundertpfundt wishes she were anywhere else & could take off the damned chin clout. Or that she'd been born 80 years later & painted by Isaac Oliver. But no, she is being painted by Wolf Huber in 1526.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4th October is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Here is St Francis receiving the stigmata. BL Yates Thompson 13; 'The Taymouth Hours'; 14th century; f.182r @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tucked away in the corner of the Church of Saint Nicholas, Feldkirch: the Annenaltar, 1521. Masterpiece of Wolf Huber whose day is today.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Meme with the text  “Motivational speaker: Unleash the lion inside you!” followed by "The lion inside me:" above two medieval drawings of weird looking lions.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some very ebullient grapes sizzle over the more pedestrian plums in this beautiful still life from 1762 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day today.
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Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finger-lickin' Garlic Butter Shrimp! Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/garlic-butte...
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lunch time in 1772, as beautifully (and mouth-wateringly) evoked by Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid. It's his day today.
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“not to point fingers but-“
a medieval illustration of a woman with many hands pointing at a man
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2/2 Young man under a tree in the garden, 1595. Why, on this lovely spring day, is he wearing one glove, with other on the ground beside him Only he and painter Isaac Oliver know for sure.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, being handsome & elusive & melancholy in 1610. Miniature by Isaac Oliver, who died OTD in 1617.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Handsome Prince Henry in armor, but with a fab multi-layer lace collar, a little incongruous but impressive. Painted in 1610 by Isaac Oliver, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2/2 1Somebody refused to comb her hair this morning! And Jan Gossaert just went ahead and painted little Dorothea that way. ❤️
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dorothea of Denmark, a little older than in the last portrait, has combed her hair to be shown with her armillary sphere. By Jan Gossaert, who died OTD in 1532. Have always loved this painting.
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Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Secret to Tender Poached Chicken Every Time Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/chinese-poac...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Making perfect meatballs is all about memorizing a basic ratio. Here are Melissa Clark’s tips for making Meatballs With Any Meat: nyti.ms/4hwNhS8
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Meatballs With Any Meat Recipe • 5★
Making great meatballs is all about memorizing a basic ratio that you can adjust to suit your taste. Start with a pound of ground meat — any kind will work, even fish if you want to take it in that direction.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This week’s #CookbookCorner stars 'Weeknights With Alice: Smart, Speedy Dinners, Starting with the Veg' by @aliceinframes.bsky.social! Read more about it and get her recipe for Chicken, Grape & Radicchio Tray Bake right here: www.nigella.com/cookbook-cor...
Photograph of the Chicken, Grape & Radicchio Tray Bake from #CookbookCorner stars 'Weeknights With Alice: Smart, Speedy Dinners, Starting with the Veg' by Alice ZaslavskyPhotograph of ‘Weeknights With Alice: Smart, Speedy Dinners, Starting with the Veg' by Alice Zaslavsky
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2/2 Holofernes experiencing rough interruption of a good night’s sleep! By Caravaggio, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another young John the Baptist, since the last was (rightly) censored. This one is moody and intense but still pretty hot, in 1604. By Caravaggio, of course. Born OTD in 1571.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," former special counsel Jack Smith said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. to.pbs.org/4hwiB3E
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WATCH: Jack Smith says he would prosecute Trump again for 'serious crimes against our nation'
Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard” for Trump’s “political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy i...
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