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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate. Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est. 'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie' (Mountain Laurel by Donal)

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 2h
Francis Preaching to the Birds, fresco, circa 1260, Master of St. Francis, Lower Church, Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi
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Fra Angelico @fra-angelico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Institution of the Eucharist www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/ins…
Institution of the Eucharist
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rough Sea - 1881 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carol Reed & Graham Greene hanging out 📷 Larry Burrows for Life, 1951
The two hang out together, drinking wine. Greene sits on an ottoman; Reed sits on the floor.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's the feast of St St Thérèse of Lisieux, 19th Century French nun, surrounded by roses in Tomasz Tuszko's Carmelites window, 2013 at St Mary, Inverness. Above and below are St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila, with St Faustina opposite under the Holy Trinity.
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's Sawkill
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Fra Angelico @fra-angelico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lamentation over Christ www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/lam…
Lamentation over Christ
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Remembering Truman Capote on his birthday 🎂 📷 Jean Mounicq, Paris, 1966 "Perhaps the single constant in his prose is style, and the emphasis he himself places upon the importance of style." - Mark Schorer
Truman puts his head back & smiles
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spelt Spaghetti with Spicy Sesame Mushrooms is #RecipeOfTheDay! Soba noodles are also great in this, and either way leftovers are great cold for a noodle-salad packed lunch the next day. www.nigella.com/recipes/spel...
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Spelt Spaghetti with Spicy Sesame Mushrooms
Wholemeal pasta holds little charm for me, but I co-exist very amicably with spelt spaghetti. Here it acts as a rather more robust form of soba noodle, which makes perfect sense since the sauce that d...
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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Route Tournante, Paul Cézanne 1905
Route Tournante, Paul Cézanne  1905
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Bard College @bardcollege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The launch of the Ralph Ellison Center brings a range of initiatives to the Bard campus where Ellison taught from 1958-1961. These will include biannual flagship lectureships and the digitization of the Ellison archive, currently held at the Library of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/a...
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The stunning 12th century chancel arch, surrounded by a gorgeous backdrop of warm-toned limewash and lime plaster, in the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Knotting, Bedfordshire 💕
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire. 'If you came by day not knowing what you came for, It would be the same, when you leave the rough road And turn behind the pig-sty to the dull facade And the tombstone.' from 'Little Gidding' by TS Eliot, who was born #OTD 26 September 1888. #SteepleSaturday
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Virginia Woolf met T.S. Eliot in November 1918 "Mr Eliot is well expressed by his name - a polished, cultivated, elaborate young American, talking so slow, that each word seems to have special finish allotted it." An Ottoline Morrell snapshot from 1924
Eliot & Woolf sitting together, caught by the camera
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
T.S. Eliot - BOTD
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The Met: Medieval Art @metmedieval.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plaque with Enthroned Virgin and Child www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
William Richard Lethaby, Blois, 1882 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
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Presented by Miss Grace A. Crosby 1932
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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Beautiful.
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Fra Filippo Lippi @frafilippolippi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Annunciation www.wikiart.org/en/filippo-lippi/an…
Annunciation
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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We need more of this.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy September! 🖼️ Grasset
An Art Nouveau illustration entitled Septembre by Eugene Grasset, part of his "Belle Jardinière" calendar series. It depicts a woman in a garden setting, representing the month of September. 
A woman with reddish-brown hair, dressed in a long, flowing brown dress with circular patterns, possibly featuring the Libra zodiac sign. She holds a basket filled with flowers or berries, and a dark shawl is draped around her shoulders.
The woman is in a garden with a pathway leading through it, fountain in background.
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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊…𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝟷𝟹𝟸𝟽, 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚡𝚝𝚑 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚂𝚝. 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙰𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚗, 𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚜…” - 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚜 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑, 𝟷𝟹𝟸𝟽 (𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘-𝚁𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎) 🖌️𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊 𝚍𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜, 𝙸𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗 (𝚅𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗) 𝚂𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕 #BookWormSat #booksky
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Fishing Boat at Sea - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"She earned a first in 1915, though the university [Somerville College, Oxford] wouldn’t allow women to become full members until 1920, and her tutor warned her against being ‘smart’."
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And for US viewers, this premiers tomorrow Friday 25th on Netflix! (I’m afraid I don’t know when it’s aired in other territories yet.)
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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
paws
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Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two Women on the Shore ; Women on the Beach 1898 botfrens.com/collections/90/content…
Two Women on the Shore ; Women on the Beach
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lisa Holt (Native American, born Cochiti Pueblo, NM 1980) Harlan Reano (Native American, born Kewa Pueblo, NM 1978) Untitled pot, 2021 natural clay with acrylic paint 14 3⁄8 × 13 5⁄8 in. (36.4 × 34.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton by Yvonne Gregory, 1931. Source: NPG
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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chateau Noir, 1905 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…
Chateau Noir
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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Writing Chair (1962) by Andrew Wyeth
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“God the Creator”, opening illustration to a stunning 14th-century manuscript known as the Holkham Bible Picture Book. Explore more of its glorious depictions of bible scenes here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h…
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The pink Hudson
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍂Autumn Leaves by Franklin Booth
Illustration, 1911. Three female figures dancing like leaves in an autumnal wind. They are dressed in long flowing orange-brown dresses with tattered hems. Below them, individual leaves are falling. Treetops are visible at the bottom of the scene.
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The dam by the Sawkill
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🏛️ Roma Aeterna 🏛️ @romaaeterna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gourde ornée de feuilles et de lièvres (terre cuite à glaçure plombifère, lieu de découverte inconnu, Ier s. ap. J.-C.). La gourde est exposée au musée Lugdunum à Lyon.
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have you heard? At our annual Gala on Nov. 6, we will present the 2026 KR Award for Literary Achievement to George Saunders. This award honors extraordinary literary achievement, recognizing individuals whose influence & importance have shaped the American literary landscape.
The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement 2026 Honoree: George Saunders
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Farms near Auvers - 1890 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#RecipeOfTheDay is a real fave: an all-in-one-pan orzo dish that goes by the name of Pasta Risotto with Peas and Pancetta! You’ll lose the alliteration, but you certainly use bacon instead of the pancetta, by the way. www.nigella.com/recipes/past...
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Pasta Risotto With Peas and Pancetta
Here, I cook pasta much as I would if I were making a traditional risotto. But there is a difference — that you don't have to stir constantly and that the pasta takes only 10 minutes to cook are obvio...
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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’ve had a crazy bumper crop year on our three apple trees. This is the latest batch I have picked to give away. Taking them to synagogue tonight for break the fast.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#RecipeOfTheDay is Spiced Bulgur Wheat with Roast Vegetables! This is gorgeous on its own and, as it happens, vegan-friendly, but otherwise wonderful alongside a roast chicken, lamb or anything you want, frankly. www.nigella.com/recipes/spic...
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Spiced Bulgur Wheat with Roast Vegetables
This is one of the recipes that is in constant rotation in my house: no matter how often I eat it, I never tire of it. The scorched sweetness of leeks and red peppers, the brightness of tomatoes and p...
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
21st September is the Feast of St Matthew the Evangelist who is depicted here with his symbol in the 'Worms Bible'. BL Harley 2804; the 'Worms Bible', Psalms-Acts 16:17; 12th century; Germany; f.172v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Superb, shadowy illustration of Don Quixote de La Mancha with Sancho Panza by Gustave Doré.
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Salvador Dalí @salvador-dali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Angel of Port Lligat botfrens.com/collections/63/content…
The Angel of Port Lligat
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Minoan vases with octopuses are relatively common but this one shows a more unusual type of marine animal: an argonaut. It's an octopus-like animal that lives on the seabed in a shell. The Minoans were masters of depicting aquatic creatures. 🕰️c1500 BC 🏛️📷Heraklion Museum
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hermann Hesse #Caturday
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