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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Went to see it at the cinema, and it’s actually pretty… great?! #DiggerTheMovie

Tom Cruise as Digger (movie still / poster)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Mesmerising film! Go see Kokuho on a very large screen, if you can. Absolutely riveting. #film

Film poster for Kokuho, a Japanese epic about family rivalry and the sacrifices one makes for art

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

This is a wonderful biography about Jan Morris, in which both her accomplishments and shortcomings come to the fore. Can recommend even if you haven’t read anything by Morris. #bskybooks #literature

A photograph of a hand holding Sara Wheeler’s biography of ‘Jan Morris: A Life’

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

The Quiet Space in the former powerplant Kraftwerk Berlin is a marvel and a great place to observe German industrial architecture (by 1964 it was in operation; operations ceased in 1997). Now it’s a place in which people move like it’s a church (so quiet is it there) #architecture #berlin

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m on holiday and therefore not posting much these days, but I’m so happy to finally have seen Erich Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm in Potsdam (1920-22)

Little brass brain in the pavement in front of the Einsteinturm

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

. @postnl.bsky.social Echt waardeloos dat jullie de app updaten vanwege de Tour met fietsjes waar niemand op zit te wachten en de complete functionaliteit gewoon weg is. Echt, waarom??

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

De woonlasten van huurders zijn nog altijd hoger dan die van kopers. Laten we niet doen alsof die minder de eindjes aan elkaar moeten knopen. nos.nl/l/2615208

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

Went to Rosalía in Amsterdam and she was magnificent. One of the best concerts I’ve ever attended.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

They recovered the helmet and two out of three bracelets

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

There's a glass box with a blue cloth over it, probably with the objects in it (also because of the police surrounding the box)

still from the live broadcast with the glass box in the right corner

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026

@adapalmer.bsky.social Saw your lovely book in paperback at bookshop Cafoscarina in Venezia!

Ada Palmer’s book Inventing the Renaissance, among others in bookshop Cafoscarina in Venice

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026

If I may recommend a book in which infectious diseases are used as a pretext for policy interventions in the name of public health resulting in social control, Andrea Bagnato’s Terra Infecta offers interesting historical case studies from Matera (1952), Naples (1884) and Venice (1922). #literature

Book cover of Andrea Bagnato's Terra Infecta (2026)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 15/03/2026

Today I went to the cinema to see Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista (1970), a beautiful and hugely impressive film (also on a technical level) about fascism, repressed sexuality, and the people that want to conform just to feel normal. #films

DVD box of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista (1970), in a restored version

Film poster on canvas at the Filmhallen in Amsterdam for Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista (1970)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 14/03/2026

Bij iedere volgende pagina voelde ik méér hersencellen afsterven. #boeken #CPNB

Boekomslag van Piaggio door Hendrik Groen, het boekenweekgeschenk 2026

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

Visited the @mauritshuis.bsky.social today to catch up with a former student who is now doing an internship there and saw Paulus Potter’s The Bull, which was brilliantly restored by Abbie Vandivere and Jolijn Schilder. 😍

Paulus Potter’s The Bull in the Mauritshuis, after a brilliant restoration treatment by Abbie Vandivere and Jolijn Schilder

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 14/02/2026

What a beautiful film! Absolutely devastated by the ending, and unfortunately its theme is as topical and urgent as the times it invokes, but if it’s playing near you, go see it! #film

Film poster of Belá Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmóniák

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

Okay okay okay, I’ll tell you what it was: a beautiful, limited edition paperweight of a phoenix, the logo of @srsrensoc.bsky.social, which I received from the amazing @racheljwillie.bsky.social

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 20/01/2026

Received the best message one could wish for: proof I have finally paid off my student debt. #yay

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 20/01/2026

The courtyard of the Heilig-Geist-Spital has a crucifixion group by the German renaissance sculptor Adam Kraft, originally made for a portal of the St. Johannisfriedhof between 1506 and 1508. #Nürnberg #Nuremberg

View of the courtyard of the Heilig-Geist-Spital with the crucifixion group by Adam Kraft (1506-1508) placed in the spandrels of the arches in the back

Christ on the Cross by sculptor Adam Kraft

Sculpture of the impenitent thief who was crucified alongside Christ, by Adam Kraft

Sculpture of the penitent thief, who was crucified alongside Christ, also by Adam Kraft

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 20/01/2026

Updating my profile pic taken in the summer with a winter version of the same view: a selfie with a view of the Heilig-Geist-Spital, partly constructed over the Pegnitz river.

Selfie with a view of the Heilig-Geist-Spital constructed over the Pegnitz river behind me

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 17/01/2026

Tonight I saw a very penetrating and brave documentary about the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on a local school in the Ural, forced to implement Russian state propaganda and thereby shaping the minds of its youth. #MrNobodyAgainstPutin

Filmmaker Pavel Talankin before the film poster of the documentart Mr Nobody Against Putin at the Art Doc Fest in November 2025

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 11/01/2026

This was a great book, discussing both the origins and creation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and its reception and afterlife #books

Book cover of Mark Hussey’s Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel (2025)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026

A lovely if somewhat twee novel at times by Elizabeth Strout (Reader, I neeeeeded it.) #books

A hand holding a book by Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 01/01/2026

I always go see a film at the cinema on New Year's Day, and today it was the macabrely funny The Last Viking (2025). Can recommend!

Film poster for The Last Viking (Den sidste viking), from Anders Thomas Jepsen

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 24/12/2025

Time to put away the computer and play some festive carols. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Painting of an angel playing a lute, by Rosso Fiorentino, dated 1521.

Elaborate description:
A young angel is depicted playing a lute, which appears enormous compared to his minute dimensions: he has his ear pressed against the sounding board to hear the best sound, his gaze is focused on his left hand, while his right hand is plucking the chords. The graceful interweaving of his copper-colored locks of hair and the high level of lyricism in this modern and poetic reinterpretation of a traditional theme make the work one of the icons of the 16th century in Florence.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 30/11/2025

So excited about tomorrow when I get to lecture about Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece (1512-1516), now in Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar. #renaissance

Two wings of the Isenheim altarpiece by Grünewald with scenes of Anthony Abbot with Paul the Heremite (right) and The temptation of St. Anthony (left)

Central wing of the Isenheim altarpiece by Grünewald (yet not fully opened) with a scene of the Concert of the Angels and a Nativity of Mary in an enclosed garden

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

Translation: “We hebben nog dagenlang volhard in onze onjuiste berichtgeving maar we kunnen er nu toch niet langer onderuit om te rectificeren. We’re not really sorry maar zijn hiertoe gedwongen door berichtgeving van De Volkskrant.”

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 30/10/2025

On my last full day here I went to Reggia di Caserta, the enormous palace designed by Luigi Vanvitelli from 1752 onwards. #Naples #Caserta

View from the garden of Reggia di Caserta, 3km from the Palace away which I walked)

One of the four inner courtyards of Reggia di Caserta

One of the five fountains in the garden (a detail)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 29/10/2025

A visit to Pompeii included a stop at the wonderful Villa dei Misteri, named after the frescoes depicting the initiation of a woman into matrimony in accordance with the Dionysian Mysteries, painted c. 70-60 BCE.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 28/10/2025

I also visited the Galleria d’Italia in #Naples, which has this wonderful painting by Artemisia Gentileschi depicting Samson and Delilah from c.1630.

Delilah’s maid is seen in conversation with her mistress as she’s pointing to something outside of the picture plane

A detail of two hands, one by Delilah handing a lock of Samson’s hair to her maid

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 28/10/2025

Today I visited the Museo di Capodimonte in #Naples, which has a stunning collection of Italian paintings.

Raffaello Sanzio’s Madonna and Christ with Saint Anne and John the Baptist (detail).

Lorenzo Lotto’s portrait of bishop Bernardo de’ Rossi from 1505 surprises because of its stunning realism: Rossi’s face clearly shows the redness of his skin and several warts. (Detail)

Detail from Il Sodoma’s Christ resurrected with an angel sitting on an empty sarcophagus.

Detail from an annunciation scene by Francesco Curia in which you see layers of textile caught by wind.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 27/10/2025

In the same church you’ll also find the Caracciolo del Sole chapel, dating from the second quarter of the 15th century. #Naples

The funerary monument of Sergianni Caracciolo, essentially a raised sarcophagus resting on three caryatid knights.

Detail of the frescoed interior: a medaillon of a man

The wonderful majolica chapel floor made of Valencian tiles.

View from the nave of the funerary monument for King Ladislaus by Andrea da Firenze, with a view of the entrance to the Caracciolo del Sole chapel behind it.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 27/10/2025

One of the true hidden gems of #Naples: The early 16th-century Caracciolo di Vico chapel in San Giovanni a Carbonara. Its architect is unknown, but seems to have come from the circle around Bramante in Rome.

Caracciolo di Vico chapel in San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples.

Caracciolo di Vico chapel in San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples, with a view of the main altar of the Epiphany sculpted by Diego de Siloé and Bartolomé Ordóñez.

Entrance to the Caracciolo di Vico chapel, made in a beautiful classicizing style.

View of the cupola of the Caracciolo di Vico chapel in San Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 26/10/2025

And some highlights from MANN in the art of fresco painting, all originally from the Vesuvian area. #Naples

A pensive woman in an interior from the Villa of Ariadne, Stabiae

Flora, seen from behind picking flowers in a green field, from the Villa of Ariadne, Stabiae

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 26/10/2025

Also here at MANN: the famous and stunningly beautiful faun of Pompeii’s House of the Faun (NB: it’s not a faun, but a satyr). #Naples

Head of a bronze satyr (confusingly called faun), found at the so-called House of the faun in Pompeii, Italy.

Body of a bronze satyr (confusingly called faun), found at the so-called House of the faun in Pompeii, Italy.

Statue of a bronze satyr (confusingly called faun), found at the so-called House of the faun in Pompeii, Italy.

Backside of the bronze statue of a satyr (confusingly called faun), found at the so-called House of the faun in Pompeii, Italy.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 26/10/2025

One of the great surprises at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale a Napoli (MANN): a wonderful scene with street musicians from a floor mosaic in the opus vermiculatum technique. #Naples

Detail from a floor mosaic from the late 2nd to early 1st century BCE, Pompeii, at MANN in Naples.

The floor mosaic bears an inscription in Greek that shows the name of its maker: Dioskourides of Samos.

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