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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Also: She would later immortalize the role in the 1900 silent film Le Duel d’Hamlet, making her one of the first actors to bring Shakespeare to the emerging medium of cinema. This is footage of it. 😉 #Victorian #feminism #theatre #acting #film #history youtu.be/aXh9IbESHA0?...

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Le Duel D'Hamlet (1900)

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#ReliefWednesday A number of sculpted relief motifs from sarcophagi in the gardens of the Antalya Archaeological Museum. 📸My own. #ancientbluesky #art #artwork #Archaeology

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

British writer Aphra Behn, painted in 1670 by Sir Peter Lely (#BTD). Wrote Oroonoko & many plays, & is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Cyprus Museum friends.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Virgin and, peeking out from under her blue robe, Baby J. With fab floral border. From the Hours of Simon de Varye, 1455, by Jean Fouquet. It’s been his day.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

You'd be forgiven if you thought that this figure on the bottom of a scarab ring was Medusa. In fact, it's Hera - Hera Lakinia, recognizable due to her image on the coins of the ancient Greek city of Kroton (Crotone) on the lonian coast of Italy. 🏺 1/ Greek, 4th c. BCE #GettyVilla 📸 me

The head of a goddess decorates the flat surface of this hollow gold scarab set in a silver swivel ring. Carved in relief rather than engraved as on a stone scarab, the goddess wears a stephane or crown decorated with three palmettes and a necklace with acorn-shaped pendants. Her locks of wavy hair radiate out from her face and she has a fierce expression. She represents Hera Lakinia, a local version of Hera, whose sanctuary was near the city of Kroton in South Italy. Coins of Kroton from the 300s BCE show similar images of Hera Lakinia, supporting this identification.

Getty Villa Museum (85.AM.273)

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#TombTuesday The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in #Rome, #Italy, near the Porta San Paolo. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius during the reign of the emperor Augustus, probably between 18 and 12 BC. It is made from Carrara marble. #Archaeology #History #Roman #AncientBlueSky🏛️

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Found in Anatolia a Hittite text date circa 2000 BC. (See Alt. For details) #Archaeology #History #writing #EpigraphyTuesday

Tudhaliya IV and Kurunta of Tarhuntassa in 1235BCE. With this treaty Tudhaliya promises the sovereignty of Tarhuntassa and another territory to Kurunta and his sons for the future, although Kurunta is advised to not want to imitate Tudhaliya's "Great Kingdom".

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The Artist's House in Argenteuil - 1876 #artbots #monet botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Honestly, I can never get enough of ancient glass. The vibrant colors, clever forms, and even the use of gold. This alabastron (perfume or scented oil flask) has swirls of gold between bands of colored glass. 1/ 🏺 📸 me

A gold band alabastron, with irregular bands of colored glass (cobalt blue, green, white, and black) snaking across the surface of this elegant vessel. The opulent gold bands are in fact gold leaf sandwiched between layers of colorless glass. Gold band glass was a luxury ware and this alabastron, or perfume flask, would have been owned by a prosperous Roman woman.

The term alabastron comes from alabaster, the material from which containers of this shape, used for perfume and scented oil, were originally made in Egypt. In the Roman Empire, the use of gold band glass was initially limited to the creation of alabastra, but the medium was gradually adapted for the creation of a variety of other shapes.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Dance like no one is watching … Frozen in mid-step, this little Tarantine terracotta dancer’s himation (with traces of bright pink pigment) swirls about her feet. She wears an ivy leaf wreath on her head, connecting her to the worship of Dionysus. Almost certainly placed in a tomb. 🏺 📸 me

'Dance like no one is watching' ...

Frozen while in motion, this statuette depicts a dancing woman, draped in a himation and wearing an ivy leaf wreath on her head. Her himation-wrapped right arm is folded back, her hand at her neck, her head lifted in abandon, and her right foot lifted backwards. Is it a religious dance, Dionysian, or instead linked to funerary practices? Perhaps all three. This figurine was certainly placed in a grave with the deceased person, likely a young woman. It still has traces of its original polychromy - particularly a bright pink pigment, which once covered the entire himation (cloak).

Greek, Hellenistic, South Italian, Tarentine (the Greek city-state of Taras, part of Magna Graecia, or 'Great Greece', one of the Greek colonies in Italy), ca. 3rd century BCE.

6 × 2 7/16 × 3 3/8 in. (15.2 × 6.2 × 8.6 cm)

Met Museum, New York (11.212.20)

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This #FrescoFriday we’re in awe of the deep blue of this fresco from Pompeii. It depicts Mars, the god of war. He stands on a plinth adding a sculptural feel and is surrounded by bushes, trees, birds, and a rich blue sky that might be about to turn from twilight to night. #AncientBluesky🏺

Image description: Mars, the Roman god of war, stands on a plinth in a fresco from Pompeii. He holds a spear, shield and wears a crested helmet and a cloak, but is otherwise heroically nude. He appears in a garden seemingly at twilight a Gorgoneion seals the leafy border that frames the scene. Image credit to Carole Raddato.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"We have nowhere we can both call home. The boat is still our only refuge. And, every day, that bears down on us a little harder."| Our circumstances have become complicated. Please read our latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal page. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Edge of the Cliff, Pourville, 1882 #artbots #monet botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Annunciation, 1659, by #MichaelinaWautier (So. Netherlands, 1617-1689). Held by Musée-promenade de Marly-le-Roi; source, KIK IRPA / Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?ob... #artherstory #womenartists #LadyDay #FeastOfTheAnnunciation

An oil painting of the Annunciation. Mary, in a tannish robe and blue cloak, turns away from the table where she kneels reading to look up at the Angel Gabriel. The winged angel, who has long brown hair and wears a red robe with a yellow-gold cloak, holds a stalk of lily in his left hand. With his right hand he points skyward. Between them, above their heads, in an opening in the clouds, is the Holy Spirit in the form of a white dove.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

All the replies/discussion on this are fascinating, thanks!

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Alicia Montemayor @utpictura.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🌱 Lo que hacen 20 cm de distancia. Ahora ya está mucho mejor.

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Maaike Dirkx 🎨 👀 @maaiked.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

1/ #Onthisday in 1621, Hugo de Groot, child prodigee, humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright, escaped life imprisonment in a book chest. De Groot was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law, laying the foundations for international law.

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🫧 Laurent Potelle 🔻 🐝 @laurentpotelle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Mon Ciel Bleu, il est tout beau sur mon nouveau téléphone... 😁 Trop content ! 🎁 pour vous, mon fond d'écran

Paysage parisien, une rue avec l'établissement Thoumieux et la tour Eiffel au fond dans la brume...

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The delicate aquamarine colouring of this 2,000-year-old Roman flask came from iron in the sand used to make it, and its iridescence is the result of weathering which turned the glass opaque www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

'Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea' (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Tate)

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Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We were meme'ing over on other platforms at @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and it's too good not to share here! #archaeology Happy big C's day to those who celebrate!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Melchior Broederlam, artist in service of Philip the Bold of Burgundy. Here, Annunciation & Visitation from exterior of great Dijon Altarpiece, 1390s.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Details from a beautiful, missed exhibition- some of the most extraordinary ancient things to stand eye to eye with

Detail of a polychrome relief with a lion, wide eyed

Detail of a shimmering gold leaf wreath big enough for a giant

Seuthes, horribly exposed, bronze head with insanely lifelike eyes

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Freya Snowball @freyasnowball.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#GardensHour Seeds planted - 5 trays nemophila, 2 trays cosmos, 1 tray blue kiwi, 1 tray cornflower, 2 trays sweet peas, 1 tray borage!! Slugs ate the crocuses!! 🌱🌿💜🌿💜🌿🌱 #EastCoastKin #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #FlowerReport #Manchester #springtime #MyBalcony

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo artist, born #OTD 1696, master of decorative, illusionistic frescoes, with bold brushwork and vivid, luminous colours. Royal Palace of Madrid

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928 www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...

Somewhat cartoonlike painted rendering of a male figure at center, rousing a crowd with a noisemaker, megaphone, drums, etc.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Bathers (Baigneurs), ca. 1898 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…

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Alexandre Blaineau @alexandreblaineau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Saisissant Rembrandt, avec ce visage qui sort de l’ombre

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Alicia Montemayor @utpictura.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🌱 ¿Primavera? La verdad es que no sé qué estación sea…

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Self-Portrait with Palette, 1890 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Love. Dead. The Funeral of Amor, 1560s: another really strange product of Antoine Caron's imagination. Today is his day.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Seems like lots of you have Views on what’s happening in the world. Fancy some cash to get it down in an essay?

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BBC Gardeners' World Mag @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Lollipop trees are perfect for small spaces, as they take up very little room - they can even be grown in pots. 🌳 Here are 10 of the best plants to grow as lollipop trees: www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-...

A lush Flamingo tree in full bloom, with creamy white flowers set against a backdrop of green foliage and a rustic fence.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

Image:
A mother, daughter and young son queue up to borrow books they have chosen from the well-stocked shelves. The figure at the desk gesticulates wildly while saying:
"Wake up, people!! The state is lending you these books to blunt your natural acquisitive urges and keep you compliant!"

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Due to a typo in the job listing, the vacancy at the public library was filled by a libertarian.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New discovery: First discovery of a royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty. english.ahram.org.eg/News/540638.... 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A photo of the discovery: A chamber with a lot of debris.

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Yellow Dress, 1931

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"There is no path anymore for us to settle ashore. With the world the way it is, I’m not even sure we want to. Which makes it even more pressing to repair our boat and get back to sea. Unfortunately, right now, we’re a day away from not being able to afford even basic groceries..." Please help us.

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Dr Francesca Santoro @phyllida.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#TombTuesday on Wednesday😊 #Rome Crepereia Tryphaena, age 20, was buried w/ her exquisite carved articulated ivory doll, ca 2nd c. The gold ring w/ the tiny key fit on the doll's thumb.🪔 #AncientBlueSky CentraleMontemartiniMus @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @robinburcell.bsky.social

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Contubernales Books @contubernales.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

All our books are 20% off! Use promo code Gaudete. Thank you for all the support. 🙏🏻

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me 2023 #Archaeology

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