David Jagger. Olga, 1936.

jeff daniel smith #art #painting #impressionistic #landscape

Somewhere to step into for the weekend Santiago Rusiñol, Blue Courtyard, Arenys de Munt 1913

El color del arte. El Museo del Prado reabre su Galería Central www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...

Gustav Kampmann - Autumn Evening, 1900 #autumn #evening #artist #landscape

My photos 📷 Autumn, leaves & seed heads #autumn #seeds #nature #photography #abstract

My photo 📷 Autumn, leaves & seed heads #autumn #seeds #nature #photography #abstract

My photos 📷 Autumn, leaves & seed heads #autumn #seeds #nature #photography #abstract

My photo 📷 #river #water #abstract #photography

building and also conserved rare features like a 16th-century painted scheme while creating holiday accommodation, a community room and sustainable energy systems. Reopened in October 2024 by local MP Rachel Reeves, the hall now welcomes visitors of all ages.

I love flowers (obviously!) but autumn's a great time to appreciate the beauty of seed heads too. I designed this set of linocut greeting cards to capture their interesting shapes 💚 sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/7443... #shopindie #linocut #nature

Last week of Cedric Morris exh at Berwick's Granary Gallery. You can find his work at Gainsborough's House which holds a large collection but this is a rare chance to see it outside the south east www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/ced...

Two interesting sounding Egyptian exhibitions just started. Opening today at John Soane Museum - a long look at Egypt's influence on British design from 18th century up the the present day www.soane.org/exhibitions/...

In the “Pelican Portrait” of 1574, Elizabeth I pulls out all the stops with unbelievably elaborate outfit. You can hardly stop looking at the amazing detail of each piece & layer. Happy birthday to one who knew how to accessorize.

Your weekend Umlaut: There is no shortage of great Umlauts in Köln, but this lightning stroke is especially worthy of your attention.

One of the most talked about artefacts on my table yesterday at the Guildhall was a recent Thames find (seen far left of my exhibits.) The hobnailed imprint of a docker’s boot in concretion - a moment captured forever in time. Not Roman, as first thought, but probably Victorian or slightly later 1/

There is deep concern about how St Catherine's Monastery (6th century) is being transformed. Luxury hotels, villas and shopping bazaars are under construction. The Jebeleya tribe had their homes and tourist eco-camps demolished with little or no compensation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Barcelona, 8 July 1936, just over a week before the start of the Spanish Civil War. View of Montjuïc and the harbour, storm clouds brewing. 📷 Gabriel Casas

Self-portrait of artist, and wife 1866-67, painted by William Holman Hunt, a founder of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; died #OTD 1910. Galleria degli Uffizi | Private Collection

Does anyone else wish to communicate only with the Refreshment Department?

An illustration from Illustrated London News, the opening of the Mersey Railway Tunnel by the Prince of Wales on 20 January 1886.

Where I'll be spending the rest of the afternoon

Nice centre-spread on local history in the free newsletter this month, featuring 2 women of note. First, explorer Violet Cressy-Marcks Secondly, Anne de Mortimer, grandmother of Edward IV and Richard III who died at young age of 22.

#Jugendstil is a regional expression of #artnouveau and I’ve long rather liked it. A treat to learn more about it in #Vienna and learn about those who were involved in it. Travel is always about learning and it makes so much more sense in its original context.

Headdress, late 16th century or early 17th century Culture: British Medium: linen, silk, metal thread https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/101643

-Abingdon Square farmers market, NYC, September 6, 2025 -Vincent van Gogh, Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed, 1887

Vermeer transformed a simple act into something monumental. The maid pours, completely absorbed in her task, while the world around her is still. Look closer and see how Vermeer used countless tiny dots of color to make the light shimmer across objects. 💙 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108369

The interior of the Master’s lodge at Balliol College Oxford. Thanks to Dame Helen Ghosh for exclusive access for our members. #vicsocagm

In the 80s I went to a lecture by a Bulgarian political philosopher. The whole lecture was delivered with his back to the audience writing incomprehensible symbols on the board. He said afterward that they’d developed this habit so the secret police watching would think they were doing maths.

Liverpool's Walker has acquired some great stuff recently - but this, the first Marie Bracquemond in public UK collection, stands out. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/news/press-r...

“This is one of the very few depictions of Sogdian priests tending a stationary fire altar outside funerary contexts. It offers an unprecedented view of Zoroastrian ceremonial traditions in Sogdiana during a period of profound political and cultural change.” #archaeology #zoroastrian

Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi. #painting #eclipse #art with detailed sections enlarged, via www.messynessychic.com/2025/09/02/1...

James Hamilton Hay painted this picture in the half-light of an autumn evening in 1910. His work of this period was greatly influenced by Whistler; the painting's feeling is invested in the atmosphere made by the clever use of colour, light, and tone.

Peeping. #scape 📷 #photography

Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Emptiness, 1901 #artist #painting

Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936), "Soil", 1898 Polish #painter, stage designer. Member of aristocratic Ruszczyc de Lis family. Originally studied law at Uni of St. Petersburg, but switched to painting classes at Imperial Academy of Arts. Student of famous Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi

More by #photographer Jan Bułhak, (1876-1950) left - Warsaw 1920-21 right - Bohdanów. Pejzaż, 1911

Jan Bułhak 📷photographer, ethnographer and folklorist. 2 of his best known photos are: Vilnius, 1918 (left) Old Town, Warsaw, 1920 (middle) I can find no title, location or date for the 3rd one - the wallpapered door, which is my favourite - so if anyone knows, please comment!

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus shows how ancient Egyptians used geometry in pyramid design. Problem 56 teaches how to figure out the seked (slope/angle of pyramid's sides) The royal cubit (about 52cm) measurement is explained & how to calculate the slope using a formula based on height & base length.

In a stunning discovery, archaeologists have found indigo on 34,000-year-old stone tools in the foothills of Georgia’s Caucasus. It's the earliest evidence of indigo processing. archaeology.org/news/2025/09/05/earliest-evidence-of-indigo-processing-identified-on-paleolithic-tools/

Tragic Canadian archaeology news 🏺

In the end, Armani was vindicated: men can look sophisticated in voluminous clothes; masculine elegance can be distilled into simple, fluid forms; and collaborations between the fashion industry and Hollywood can create potent spells. www.gq.com/story/how-gi...

I wrote something for GQ about how Armani impacted menswear. It's easy to forget, but when menswear transitioned to slimmer silhouettes in the early 2000s, baggy clothes were derided as "sloppy" and "middle aged." Over the years, people have revisited campaigns like these 🧵

Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) "The Day is Done, and the Darkness Falls from the Wings of Night", ca. 1862 #photography #skyscape #sunset #ColonelHenryStuartWortley #HenryStuartWortley #ColonelStuartWortley

When Van Gogh ran out of canvas he sometimes used a fabric "torchon", used for tea towels, that has red patterns. In Nov 1889 Vincent wrote to his brother Theo that he was out of canvas. Days later he made The Large Plane Trees on torchon, and red diamond shapes can be made out in the foreground

Károly Ferenczy, Painter and Model in the Woods, 1904, Oil on canvas, 120 x 135 cm (Private collection)

'a work by Nicholas Hilliard that has come to light is all the more exciting because it has a possible link to William Shakespeare, and a 400-year-old enigma of a defaced red heart on its reverse, suggesting a love scorned.'

Edward Steichen. Self-Portrait with Studio Camera. c. 1917

Self Portrait, Ralph Bartholomew #photography #flash #SelfPortrait

Imogen Cunningham, Self Portrait on Geary Street (1958) #photography #SelfPortrait #ImogenCunningham