Sorting out my reviews folder and found these cover shots of recent issues of the Burlington Magazine that I've contributed to. Meanwhile, the current issue explores the latest findings about the work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue

Going through my photos from the fascinating 'Anatomy of Antiquity: The Body and Movement in Sculpture' #exhibition at the Royal Castle, #Warsaw, which I saw this summer. It explored, among others, the legacy of classical art in 18th and 19th-century Europe.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Just visited the excellent 'John le Carré: Tradecraft' #exhibition at the Weston Library, #Oxford, which presents le Carré's literary work in an international context and draws upon extensive archival material from the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

'Marie Antoinette Style' @vamuseum.bsky.social features objects that are both sumptuous and moving, guiding you through MA's life, dramatic death, as well as her 'afterlives' in art and film, using sensory exhibits in key places. Plenty of stunning jewellery, fans, porcelain and lavish gowns!

Bookings are now open for my 7-week online Art Theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which will run from 27th Oct to 14th Dec 2025. We will explore how art has been written and thought about from classical antiquity to the modern era. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Just opened: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at Cantor Arts Centre museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/... September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026

Just visited the recently-opened new building of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) - vast rooms containing a range of 20th and 21st-century art, with stunning views towards the Palace of Culture

Spotted in Ghent: the house where Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer lived when he stayed in the city in the 1520s

Join us this evening for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! 🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI

The 'Discovering Dürer' #exhibition has just closed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It showcased the printmaking of the Northern #Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer, and gave an insight into the conservation of historic printed images @fitzmuseum.bsky.social

CURIOUS CURES: MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD free #exhibition on until 6th December at the University Library, #Cambridge - highly recommended @theul.bsky.social!

A couple of intriguing literary objects on display at the TREASURED exhibition, now on at the Weston Library, #Oxford: a gold and coral rattle which belonged to the infant Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a portrait of Mary Shelley painted from a death mask @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Bookings are open for my online art theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which starts in October 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Modern art collection at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge

Farne Islands, Northumberland. Inner Farne is famous for puffins, kittiwakes and arctic terns, as well as the medieval St Cuthbert's Chapel which, surprisingly, has 17th-century woodwork from Durham Cathedral. There's also a monument to Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from a shipwreck in 1838.

Starts tomorrow: my one-week course on art collecting at the International Summer Programme for PACE, Uni of Cambridge.

Ceramic highlights (decorative tiles and 18th-century vases and plates) from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, a port city on the Baltic coast

Just a few more days to catch this free #exhibition - 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' - @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Well worth it!

New open-access publication of historic sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century, free to download from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

A painting by renowned Polish artist Jacek Malczewski has sold for 22.2 million zloty (€5.2 million) – a new record for an artwork sold in Poland. A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.

Christ teaching the elders in the Temple, from The Small Travel Book (a portable Ruthenian breviary) printed by Francis Skaryna in Vilnius (1522)

Marble fruit - two apples and a pear - right down to some overripe parts, late 16th century. These were used for decoration and also sometimes, apparently, mixed in with real fruit ... for the laugh. Hilarious. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

🔓𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝘆 Edited by Rory G. Critten & Juliette Vuille More info: bit.ly/3ZMrDkG #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists #Mystical #Writing #ChurchHistory

On until Sunday 1st June: 'A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska' @hundredheroines.org . Ania Ready and two artists’ collectives have created photographic responses to Sophie’s work, including a display that also references the paintings of Susanna by the Italian artist #Artemisia #Gentileschi

Another portrait from the #Wyspiański #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: this one is of the actress Irena Solska in Japanese-style dress. It was drawn in 1904, the year she performed at the #Lviv Theatre in a production of 'Skarb' (Treasure) by the Lviv poet Leopold Staff.

On until 13th July: bold and evocative pastel #portraits by the #Polish modernist artist Stanisław #Wyspiański (1869-1907), a free #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, #London

Early Spring in the Old Town http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A-2002-276

Excited to announce that my online art theory course at ICE, Uni of Cambridge, will run again from 7th Jul to 24th Aug 2025. More details here: www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/appro...

🚨The House of Lords have voted for a significant amendment to the Data Bill, forcing AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used to train their models. Read all about it here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/house-o...

Rembrandt's earliest known paintings, depicting the Five Senses, on display at the Museum De Lakenhal in #Leiden, the #Netherlands

Imposing gateways on my recent trip to the #Netherlands: in The Hague, #Delft and #Leiden

Follow the signs to find this exquisite Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Fra Angelico, newly acquired and on display at the Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford. It is painted in egg tempera on wood and still has its original #frame @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

In this 250th post on The Frame Blog, Keith Christiansen looks at the framing of 15th-16th century Netherlandish works in The Metropolitan Museum, New York

Now open: 'Stanisław Wyspiański: Portraits' #exhibition. Travelling to the UK for the first time, 16 of Stanisław Wyspiański’s most admired portraits, many of which have never been seen outside Poland, will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk/whatson/disp...

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann publishes new book on Rudolph II

Walking in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester today

Today we honoured the life and work of writer Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925). Following a fundraiser by artist Ania Ready, Sophie’s previously unmarked burial place at Tredworth Road Cemetery, Gloucester, has been marked with a memorial by artisan stone mason Samuel F. Macarthur.

This fascinating, free #exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social (room 29, first floor) showcases portraits on different media from across Iran, Britain and France. Highlights include two large, recently-restored 18th-century oil-on-canvas depictions of Fath Ali Shah and a setar player.

If you see any brutal-yet-elegant murders on the streets of Paris, don't worry: it's just the upcoming Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition

A campaign is underway to honour the pioneering writer Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925) on the centenary of her death. While her image is preserved in portraits @kettlesyard.bsky.social and @tate.bsky.social , her grave remains unmarked. Please consider donating and sharing. gofund.me/cee4f02a

Not long to wait until this new exhibition opens at the National Gallery, London: 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350'. On from 8 March to 22 June 2025

The recent reconfiguration of the entrance to the National Gallery, London, incorporates a striking Neoclassical bust sculpture of the 19th-century art historian Anna Brownell Murphy (1794-1860) by Welsh sculptor John Gibson (1790 –1866).

In 1945 Rowntree's launched a campaign advertising their cocoa to women at home & in the workplace. As well as being architects, designers, musicians, reporters, librarians and bank tellers, the campaign also showed women as analytical chemists and scientific assistants #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Bronze monument to Fryderyk Chopin being assembled in Warsaw (with sculptor Wacław Szymanowski shown in the foreground), 1926 - photo from @bibliotekanarodowa.bsky.social . Destroyed during World War II, a reconstruction of the original monument is on display at the Łazienki Królewskie park.

A campaign is underway to honour the pioneering writer Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925) on the centenary of her death. While her image is preserved in portraits @kettlesyard.bsky.social and @tate.bsky.social , her grave remains unmarked. Please consider donating and sharing. gofund.me/cee4f02a

We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

Help us find the nation’s best-loved railway art with Railway 200 🚂 We're asking you to vote for your top three railway artworks, to help form an online exhibition 👉 railway200.artuk.org The top 20 will be announced on #WorldArtDay, 15th April. #RailwayArt200 #Railway200

The Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, housed in a recently-renovated 1960s Brutalist building. It's home to a 21m fin whale, Charles #Darwin's natural history specimens, and a new AI experiment that lets you talk to objects in the collections @camunivmuseums.bsky.social