Nothing to make me feel older than realizing when I started writing about a certain set of prints they were "nearly 500 years old" and now they are "over 500 years old"...

Diese Woche im ZI Mittwoch, 9.7.2025, 18:15 Uhr Festvortrag #WolfgangRatjenPreis 2025 Antony Griffiths, London: On Understanding and Misunderstanding Prints www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...

Such a pleasure to have contributed to this volume.

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Working on Malvasia and Parmigianino seem to give me trouble when it comes to searching for books for research.

Slide comparison: (l) Michel Maille, Ercole and Luigi Bolognetti, marble, 1681-83, Rome, Chiesa di Gesù e Maria (r) Statler and Waldorf, timeless

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

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This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

One of my favourite courses I ever took in undergrad was a history of architecture course for which we had to sketch to a theme each week. It is such an amazing way to see things in a new light, so I can only imagine how enriching this course would be.

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

If you are teaching the Birds Head Haggadah it is indeed compulsory to include the pop-up version. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social 🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

A friendly PSA for my fellow Canadians: the Americano as the name for the coffee drink is already a knock against Americans who were scoffed at by Italians for drinking watered down coffee, so please, I beg of you, don’t rename it the Canadiano. It’s not the clever move you think it is.

Step-by-step instructions on building a cistern from a Vitruvius edition published in 1511. More in our rare books online exhibition, curated by the Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

I had so much fun going into the rare book collection @bhmpi.bsky.social to work on this online exhibition together with the rest of the Visualizing Science team!

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I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

Last chance to be part of a truly amazing research group!

Two new calls for fellows in two amazing intellectual environments!

#Provenienzforschung Zusammen mit dem Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project und der TU Berlin veranstaltet das ZI das Online-Seminar "NS-Raubkunst: Wie kann ich das recherchieren? Eine Einführung in drei Schritten". Interesse? Hier geht’s zum Programm: de.jdcrp.org/ns-raubkunst...

In a piece about risotto in the @newyorker.com there was reference to an 1809 recipe being early, so I wrote in with two 1549 recipes and… my letter got published?! (I’ve never written a letter to the editor before in my life!)

a brief explainer on whatever's happening in the country that you are, probably, ignoring slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I have apparently lived in Rome long enough that I have an album of my favourite volutes. Points if you can guess where these are from. (Will give locations afterwards)

The inaugural @bsky.app post from @bhmpi.bsky.social with a few reflections from a recent study trip to Barcelona and the surrounding area to see Manifesta15.

Just to say that if this is the link is censored for you, I can confirm it IS adult content in that there won't be many children with doctorates in early modern economic history, but the image is definitely safe for work.

Generally starting to like this platform, but have to say I find it hilarious that @bsky.app censored images I posted of early-16th c. engravings.

What a glorious printed version of Hrabanus Maurus's 9th century manuscript De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis. Takes me right back to the early medieval art courses I took in my undergrad.

Opening today: "Albrecht Dürer. Defying Norms, Setting Standards" Graphische Sammlung, ETH / Zürich #earlymodern #arthistory #prints 🏛️ gs.ethz.ch/en/current/

Got to revisit some of my favourite details of Marcantonio Raimondi’s earliest engravings made in Bologna between about 1501 and 1506 😍

Will you be in Toronto on January 21? Do you like art? Do you like money? Then come to this public lecture I'll be giving at the University of Toronto! arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...

I am continually fascinated by Fludd’s back square, both conceptually and materially. To depict this void required a substance: black printing ink. Which is composed of carbon: so the void or absence ends up depicted by the presence of burnt, earthly matter.

My home institution is now also here, please follow! Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social #art #earlymodern 🗃️ and so much more!

Obsessed with this totally strange doubling that takes place in the corner of the arcade of the courtyard of Palazzo Venezia ca. 1460. You really get a sense of how the architect and sculptor were one in the same.

Out of procrastination, I suppose I will introduce myself, so 👋! My name is Ariella Minden. I'm a Canadian art historian working as wissenschaftliche Assistentin (scientific assistant) @bhmpi.bsky.social in Rome. (Here I am in my University of Toronto doctoral regalia).

Someone had to say it! Just use a bowl to do the initial mix of your pasta fresca, then dump it out to knead.

The Bibliotheca Hertziana has arrived @bhmpi.bsky.social . Follow them for all things art history, visual and material culture, and more!

It seems like Bluesky is picking up steam, so for my first post in almost a year, I present some comparison slides: (Cloister of the Monastery of Sant Cugat, ca. 1190)

The outcome of my research trip to Parma this past March:

Magical Masolino in the Basilica of San Clemente ca.1428-30

It seems only appropriate that my first post should be of the blue sky on my walk into work this morning. The moon in dialogue with St. Paul stop the column of Marcus Aurelius.