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The Timothyseus Project

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London and Rome-based independent didactic project focused on the Italian Renaissance (action-text-image) and the city of Rome as the Mother Muse. Events on early Renaissance Florence and Renaissance Popes for Autumn 2026.

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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEXT MONTH > Andrea di Bonaiuto and the Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 1366-67 (webinar), Thursday, 22 October 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Contact > timdemetris@hotmail.com for details and to register! #spanishchapel #santamarianovella #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEXT MONTH > The Baptistery of St John in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum (study session in Dept of Prints and Drawings), Friday, 16 October 2026, 11.00-13.00, London, UK, time. Contact > timdemetris@hotmail.com for details and to register! #baptistery #florence #britishmuseum
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEXT MONTH > The Baptistery of St John in Florence and its Bronze Doors (webinar), Thursday, 15 October 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Contact > timdemetris@hotmail.com for details and to register! #baptistery #florence #lorenzoghiberti #renaissance
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EVENT THIS WEEK > Arts and Trade and Civic Patronage > The Guilds of Florence, c. 1190-16th cent. (online seminar), Thursday, 24 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Contact > timdemetris@hotmail.com for details and to register! #guilds #florence #calimala #artedellalana
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEXT WEEK > Arts and Trades and Civic Patronage > The Guilds of Florence, c. 1190-16th cent. (online seminar), Thursday, 24 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #guilds #florence #lucadellarobbia #orsanmichele
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EVENT THIS WEEK > French Exile and the Italian Arts > The Avignon Papacy, 1309-1376 (online seminar), Thursday, 17 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #avignon #papacy #catherineofsiena #popegregoryxi
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEXT WEEK > French Exile and the Italian Arts > The Avignon Papacy, 1309-1376 (online seminar), Thursday, 17 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #avignon #papacy
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW EVENT FOR AUTUMN 2026 > The Baptistery of St John in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session in Dept of Prints and Drawings), Friday, 16 October 2026, 11.00-13.00, London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #baptistery #florence #britishmuseum
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
ON THIS DAY > 29 August 1484 > HABEMVS PAPAM !! The Genoese Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, and Bishop of Molfetta, Giovanni Battista Cybo (1432-92) is elected to the papacy as Pope Innocent VIII (1484-92). #renaissance #habemuspapam #innocentviii #vatican
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW EVENT FOR AUTUMN 2026 > Andrea di Bonaiuto and the Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 1366-67 (online seminar), Thursday, 22 October 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #spanishchapel #santamarianovella #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NEW EVENT FOR AUTUMN 2026 > Florence Baptistery and its Bronze Doors, 1330-1452 (online seminar), Thursday, 15 October 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #baptistery #andreapisano #lorenzoghiberti #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ON THIS DAY > 19 August 1458 > HABEMVS PAPAM !! The Sienese cardinal, and Bishop of Siena, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-64) is elected to the papacy as Pope Pius II (1458-64). #renaissance #habemuspapam #piusii #piccolomini
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ON THIS DAY > 14 August 1464 > Pope Pius II (1458-64) dies in Ancona and is later buried in Rome in Old St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. His fine funeral monument (1465-70) is today housed in the Theatine church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in the centre of Rome. #renaissance #popes #piusii #rome
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ON THIS DAY > 12 August 1484 > Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) dies in Rome and is later buried in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Old St Peter's Basilica. His exquisite funeral monument (1484-93) may still be seen in the New St Peter's at the Vatican. #renaissance #popes #sixtusiv #vatican
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW EVENT FOR AUTUMN 2026 > The Guilds of Florence, c. 1190-16th cent. (online seminar), Thursday, 24 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #guilds #florence #orsanmichele
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW EVENT FOR AUTUMN 2026 > The Avignon Papacy, 1309-1376 (online seminar), Thursday, 17 September 2026, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #avignon #papacy
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NEW EVENT > Reading Giorgio Vasari on Ambrogio Lorenzetti (online seminar), Thursday, 20 August 2026, 12.00-14.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #vasari #ambrogiolorenzetti
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ON THIS DAY > 6 August 1458 > Pope Callistus III (1455-58) dies in Rome and is later buried in the chapel of Santa Maria della Febbre (now demolished) at the Vatican. Fragments of his original funeral monument are today found in the Vatican Grottoes. #renaissance #popes #callistusiii #vatican
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Timothyseus Project recommends Rosamond McKitterick's excellent Rome and the Invention of the Papacy. The Liber Pontificalis, published by Cambridge University Press, 2020 > www.cambridge.org/core/books/r... #mckitterick #papacy #liberpontificalis
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Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Timothyseus Project mourns the passing of Prof. Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge, and remembers fondly generous and academically-edifying conversations at the British School at Rome and Vatican Library. bsr.ac.uk/remembering-... #cambridge @bsrome.bsky.social
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Remembering Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Friend and Supporter of the BSR - bsr.ac.uk
The British School at Rome is very sad to learn of the death of Professor Rosamond McKitterick. Rosamond was an alumna and a long-standing supporter of the School, including in her role as a member (2...
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Giorgio Vasari also designed the Palazzo degli Uffizi (1560-) for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-69). This architectural project included the Corridoio Vasariano (1565), which the general public can now visit as part of the Uffizi Gallery. #vasari #uffizi #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ON THIS DAY > 30 July 1511 > The Italian painter, architect, art historian, and biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) is born in Arezzo in Tuscany. Vasari is most famous for his celebrated Lives of the Artists, which was published in Florence in 1550 and 1568. #vasari #arezzo #renaissance
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Petrarch met and befriended the Sienese painter Simone Martini (c. 1284-1344) in Avignon, where the latter illuminated the title page (c. 1336) of Petrarch's manuscript edition of Virgil (70 BC-19 BC), which is now held in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. #petrarch #simonemartini #virgil
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ON THIS DAY > 20 July 1304 > The Italian scholar and poet Francesco di Petracco (Petrarch) (1304-74) is born in Arezzo in Tuscany. Petrarch's notable literary works include Il Canzoniere and the Triumphs, both written in the Italian (Tuscan) language. #petrarch #andreadelcastagno
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
MUSEI CAPITOLINI > Vasari e Roma (Vasari and Rome) (exhibition), 20 March - 19 July 2026: www.museicapitolini.org/it/mostra-ev... #museicapitolini #vasari #roma
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Vasari e Roma | Musei Capitolini
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
ON THIS DAY > 12 June 1519 > Cosimo de' Medici (1519-74) is born in Florence. Cosimo would rule as second duke of the Florentine Republic (1537-69), commissioning Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) to build the Uffizi, now the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence. #cosimoi #medici #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE > Renaissance Lives - 'Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and his World', Thursday, 18 June 2026 > warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #warburg #ghirlandaio @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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Renaissance Lives - 'Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and his World'
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The back panels of Duccio's Maestà altarpiece (1308-11) contain 26 scenes from the Passion of Christ, the most comprehensive Passion cycle in medieval Italian art. In 2025 Duccio panels were on display in major exhibitions in New York, London, and Paris. #duccio #maestà #siena
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ON THIS DAY > 9 June 1311 > Duccio di Buoninsegna's celebrated Maestà altarpiece (1308-11) is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Tuscany. The main front panel, still today in Siena, depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned with saints and angels. #duccio #maestà #siena
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
ILLE HIC EST RAPHAEL TIMVIT QVO SOSPITE VINCI RERVM MAGNA PARENS ET MORIENTE MORI #raphael #pantheon #bembo
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
ON THIS DAY > 6 April 1520 > Raphael (1483-1520) dies in Rome, aged 37, and, at his own request, is later buried in the Pantheon, in an ancient sarcophagus, and celebrated with a Latin distich written by the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547). #raphael #pantheon #bembo
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Quid de libris dicam, qui illic erant innumerabiles, non dum Latinis cogniti? Heu, quot nunc magnorum nomina virorum peribunt? Secunda mors ista Homero est, secundus Platoni obitus. Ubi nunc philosophorum aut poetarum ingenia requiremus? Extinctus est fons musarum, [...]. #piccolomini #pinturicchio
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
ON THIS DAY > 30 March 1432 > The future Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II (1432-81) is born in Edirne. On 29 May 1453 Mehmed II, aged 21, would finally conquer Constantinople and bring an end to the Byzantine Empire in the East #mehmedii #constantinople #gentilebellini
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, is also depicted as a young boy, together with his two older brothers Piero and Giovanni, the future Pope Leo X (1513-21), by Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinita in Florence. #medici #santatrinita #ghirlandaio
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
ON THIS DAY > 17 March 1516 > Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and brother of Pope Leo X (1513-21), dies in Florence and is later buried in a monumental tomb by Michelangelo in the New Sacristy at San Lorenzo #medici #sanlorenzo #michelangelo
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Italian state has bought Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) for €30m. The painting, which depicts the future Pope Urban VIII (1623-44), will now enter the collection in Palazzo Barberini in Rome > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #caravaggio #barberini #urbanviii
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Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30m
The purchase is part of wider plans to prevent major artworks from being bought by private collectors.
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Leonardo Bruni also suggested an initial iconographic programme, later modified to ten panels, of Old Testament scenes for the third set of bronze doors, the Gates of Paradise, made by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Baptistery in Florence. #leonardobruni #lorenzoghiberti #florencebaptistery
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Leonardo Bruni's multi-volume History of the Florentine People, now published in the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is one of the key texts of our advanced Latin course Italian Renaissance Latin Texts, 1453-1513 > www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #leonardobruni #florence #itatti
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History of the Florentine People, Volume 1: Books I-IV — Harvard University Press
Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his ...
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
POSTQVAM LEONARDVS E VITA MIGRAVIT / HISTORIA LVGET ELOQVENTIA MVTA EST / FERTVRQVE MVSAS TVM GRAECAS TVM / LATINAS LACRIMAS TENERE NON POTVISSE #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ON THIS DAY > 9 March 1444 > Italian (Aretine) humanist and historian Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370-1444) dies in Florence and is subsequently buried in the Franciscan church of Santa Croce in a tomb designed by Bernardo Rossellino. #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
ON THIS DAY > 6 March 1447. Tommaso Parentucelli is elected as Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. #nicholasv #fraangelico #renaissancerome #vatican
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Michelangelo at Christie's (NYC) > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #michelangelo #sistinechapel #christies
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Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
Experts at Christie's say it is a foot sketch of the Libyan Sibyl, which was later painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
TOMORROW: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space (online seminar), Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, 12.00-14.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #florence #ghirlandaio #filippinolippi
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
THIS WEEK: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space at the British Museum in London (study session), Friday, 19 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00, London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #britishmuseum
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The Timothyseus Project @timothyseus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
PALAZZO STROZZI > Fra Angelico (exhibition), 26 Sep 2025-25 Jan 2026: www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/archivio/... #palazzostrozzi #fraangelico
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Fra Angelico - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
Fra Angelico: scopri i dettagli dell'evento, vieni a trovarci in sede a Palazzo Strozzi.
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