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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's time! Awakening of the arts, by Frans Floris of Antwerp, 1560. What a beautiful painting about a beautiful idea.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First pretty accurate depiction of Stonehenge, produced of course by a Flemish painter! Lucas d'Heere of Ghent, in 1574. It's his day.

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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A limestone statue of a couple, Yuny and his wife Renenutet. She sits beside him, one arm looped around his back. She holds a menat, a beaded necklace shaken like a rattle in temple rituals for the goddess Hathor. Still carrying its original paint.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This #Etruscan bowl depicts a naked youth and his dog. The seated youth holds two spears and looks pensive, perhaps after an unsuccessful hunt? A wonderful example of the ‘sovradipinto’ (overpainting) technique, which produces shading, highlights, and foreshortening. #BritishMuseum 🏺 📸 me

Black pottery bowl with designs in red on black ground, the highlights picked out with white, the shadows rendered by hatched red lines; carefully executed, in the style of a fresco-painting.

In a medallion, with border of arabesques, a youthful figure, perhaps Ganymede, seated on a rock to right, looking up to left, with drapery under him, and two spears in his right hand; he bends forward with his left elbow on his knee, resting his head on his left hand, his right arm on his right knee, with legs crossed. Behind him is a hound to left, looking up to right, wearing a collar.

Perhaps painted by a Greek from southern Italy, who was inspired by Greek wall-painting. The technique of decoration (sovradipinto, 'overpainted') includes shading, highlights and foreshortening of the figure.

Etruscan, made in Etruria, Italy, ca. 300-280 BCE

British Museum (1855,0306.16)

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/07/2026

it probably works best as a Calvin bit but I believe I speak for many people when I say I would read the shit out of a fully committed Tracer Bullet story from Watterson no question he could pull it off

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

WOW, I crossed 20k followers! Huge thanks to each one of you for your interest in archaeology. To celebrate this milestone, here's a highlight of our collections,an #IceAge masterpiece: The so-called Venus of Hohle Fels (a cave on the Swabian Jura) was carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years..🧵1/2

An ivory figurine with a weathered surface, shown in a museum setting, with exaggerated breasts, rounded hips, short limbs, and a small ring-like loop at the top where the head would be.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Two of the standing stones that form the Stones of Stenness on Orkney. The Neolithic monument dates to around 3100 – 2900 BC, and is part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Stenness #Prehistory #Orkney

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We walk towards the chambered tomb not as visitors to a dead past, but as explorers of the living Long Neolithic. Mound eroded, stones exposed, it remains more than a skeleton, more than a relic. The stones are an ongoing transmission. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Once again, I'm convinced that the same workshop/artist did the frescoes in the Villa Poppaea and the villa of P. Fannius Synistor. Just so many similarities, including the triple water spouts filling a marble basin, as seen in the cubiculum fresco below. Left, me; right, #MetMuseum

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New discovery: Archaeologists found a rare Roman rock-cut sanctuary for the goddess Minerva in a Roman quarry near Campos del Paraíso, Cuenca/Spain. Dating to the 2nd century AD. elpais.com/cultura/2026... 🏺

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ancient Rome as an art collection. Seeing some of my favorite sculptures there among the represented ruins! Wonderful conceit from 1757 by Giovanni Panini, born OTD in 1691.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One of the oldest known musical instruments! A Paleolithic #flute made from a #swan's wing bone some 40,000 years ago! The preserved length is about 12.6 cm with three finger holes. The original length of the flute is unknown. Found in the Geißenklösterle Cave at Blaubeuren. This... 🧵1/2 📷 me

A part of a long, narrow bone flute displayed vertically against a black background, with three visible finger holes along the front. The object is illuminated from the front, highlighting its texture and craftsmanship.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Kitchen w/ A+ classical architecture & cheese for #NationalCheeseDay -- but do I spy a morality play in the farther room? Christ, Martha, & Mary once again, from Pieter Aertsen, 1553. It's his day today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fab flowers arranged on a ledge and boldly illuminated by a shaft of light. By Rachel Ruysch, whose day is today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Women messing with men's heads du jour #4 (I think): triumphant Judith with head of Holofernes, painted by Louis Finson. It's his day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Giovanna Garzoni, painter of portraits but best known for still lifes. Here by herself (or possibly by Carlo Maratta), 1660, w / a portrait of herself in her youth.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The amazing Berlin gold hat is one of four gold hats known to date. Three were found in Germany, one in France. The purpose of this #BronzeAge objects are unknown. They are all similar in shape and pattern. Their conical shape resembles a wizard’s hat, which led to speculations that...🧵1/3 📷 me

A photo of a tall, narrow, cone-shaped gold ceremonial object displayed upright in a museum-like setting. It has a rounded base and is covered from bottom to tip with repeated embossed bands, dotted ridges, and intricate ornamental patterns, all illuminated against a dark background.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

2/2 Back of Duccio’s incredible Maestà Altarpiece includes Christ’s whole adult (& postmortem) life. Childhood was on the front. You can stand for hours “reading” the history.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Maestà, Duccio's incredible altarpiece, commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 for the cathedral, where it was installed in 1311. Rarely have civic funds been better spent. Today is D's day. Prepare for gold!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Memories of winter: cottages along a frozen river, 1629, by Esaias van de Velde,, who was born on this day in 1587.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This beautiful woodcut print is by master Japanese printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige I. It comes from a series called View of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces and features Mount Kyōdai and the rice fields of Sarashina in the Shinano Province.

A Japanese woodblock print featuring a mountain in the moonlight and rice fields in the foreground

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#EpigraphyTuesday A thread 🧵 I.7.7 #Pompeii. Casa del Sacerdos Amandus or House of the Priest Amandus or Casa dell’affresco di Spartaco. Excavated 1912 and 1924. During excavation an interesting piece of #graffiti was found hinting at a famous figure #SPARTACUS #History

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ancient #polychromy is rarely more vibrant than this type of Greek painted pottery from Centuripe, Sicily. Both vases here are funerary and have architectural elements at top, looking like small tholos-shaped temples (lion head waterspouts!). The colors are blazingly vivid. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

A fundamental feature of Greek ceramics and their offshoots is that they could be used. By contrast, this vase, with its lid fixed onto the body, serves a purely symbolic function. It belongs to a class of pieces associated with the site of Centuripe in Sicily. They are characterized by elaborate and delicate applied decoration and by refined polychromy executed after firing. The vase was made for the tomb.

The scene shows a bride surrounded by attendants. The background is a deep, vibrant pink, and the colors of the women's clothing includes cream, yellow, blue, green, orange, lilac, and red. Their skin is very pale. One female attendant wears a grape-leaf wreath on her head and bangs on a tympanum (hand drum). The bride is veiled.

The sealed vessel resembles a tholos-style tomb or temple, with lion-headed waterspouts, triglyphs and metopes.

Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe, 3rd-2nd century BCE.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (53.11.5)

This Greek terracotta vase from Centuripe, Sicily (a Greek colony) is brightly painted with a scene depicting the mostly-naked red-haired enthroned god Dionysos cradling a thyrsos in his right arm. A female figure veiled in a white himation - a priestess? - stands next to him, her face lost to time. A shield is propped up against the side of Dionysos' throne. The background here is a vivid pink madder, and the skin of the god is very realistically portrayed - pale, with reddish toning, and highlights and shadows.

Even in its partially ruined state, the painting technique is obviously wonderfully realistic while the intensity of the colors make it look fantastical. The top of the vase includes architectural features, including a Lesbian kyme cornice (with remains of gilding) below lion-head waterspouts. The base is an open acanthus plant, as if the vase were growing out of its center. Probably made for the tomb.

Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe, 3rd-2nd century BCE. Terracotta, gilding, and pigments.

H. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm.); diameter 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm.)

Met Museum, New York (29.131.2)

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The tax collectors, wearing their fab hats. Why is one man so anxious? Has he been cooking the books, about to be found out? By Marinus van Reymerswaele, whose day is today.

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Weatherwaxed @weatherwaxed.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Incomparably modern, not by technique, but by expression. This is the face that represents the feeling of a large part of the people on Earth right now. @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Merode Altarpiece, 1425: donors witness miracle through garden door, while Joseph busily makes mousetraps. And Mary remains focused on her book! Absolutely wonderful work by Robert Campin, whose day is today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Died (alas!) on this day in 1444, Robert Campin of Tournai. Here, his beautiful Annunciation in a Gothic chapel. Mary trying to finish the chapter before she has to deal w/ this.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Very odd portrait of a man with possibly exploding donkey in the landscape behind him. Meanwhile he points to a small maze on the ledge. By Dosso Dossi, who understood what this meant even if we don't.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

2/2 Excuse me, I was trying to read my book! Madonna interrupted by Saints, 1607, by Ludovico Carracci. He too was born OTD, but in 1555.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Books, music, & tea. A fine combination for #NationalTeaDay from Pieter van Roestraten, born on this day in 1630.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2/2 Some more excellent books, and a little music to go with them, assembled by Jan de Heem. Today is his day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2/2 Books, books, & more books! Can't get enough of them, in 1628 or ever. Thank you Jan de Heem, born on this day 1606. And kudos for signature on first page of unbound quire. #booksky

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A heavily-restored #relief for #ReliefWednesday (that's today, right?) from the #VaticanMuseums, with a beautiful #tripod in marble beneath which is a scene of the blinding of #Polyphemus the #Cyclops. Because why not? From c. 130 CE, along the via #Appia outside #Rome.

RELIEF OF TRIPOD WITH THE BLINDING OF POLYPHEMUS, C. 130 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

This relief, now on the grand Simonetti staircase of the Vatican Museums, was found sometime in the C18 in the antiquities-rich Vigna Casali along the via Appia just outside porta S. Sebastiano. I can't find any other examples of this specific combination of relief and tripod, but it seems to be tomb decoration. The whole relief is contained within a marble ædicule with no top, whose front vertical edges are lined with beautiful roses in low relief. The tripod features a brazier at the top covered with lions' heads holding rings in their mouths, and garlands, and three slender legs also topped with lions' heads. Beneath, and much restored, is a group of 4 of Odysseus' shipmates in the act of blinding the cyclops Polyphemus. The sailors all have new or reattached heads. One should be wearing the distinctive egg-shaped cap of Odysseus. The cyclops isn't a giant, and his head has been restored with two eyes. The sharpened log being used for the blinding has mostly disappeared, leaving us to imagine it. Is this just a strange C18 pastiche?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Oddly haunting study of kneeling nude woman by Michelangelo. It’s been his day.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One of the most beautiful and delicate fresco depictions from the Roman world is this one depicting an enthroned Venus receiving a flower from her son, Cupid. The goddess’ handmaiden is placing a sheer lilac veil over her head. 🏺 1/ Rome, early 1st c. CE. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. 📸 me

Closeup of one of the details from a cubiculum fresco from the Casa della Farnesina, a wealthy Roman villa on the banks of the Tiber outside of the city walls. Here, an enthroned Venus seems to receive a flower from her tiny naked son, Cupid, who wears a fabulous body chain and stands on her footrest. A handmaiden either places (or removes) a sheer lilac veil trimmed in a thin border of blue on the goddess' head (Venus is wearing a rayed golden crown). The extremely fine and delicate details of the frescoes in this house are missing from those in the Vesuvian towns.

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