Wonderful ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse! New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

#Paris Ce midi, le printemps à #NotreDame.

Because you are gold! Gorgeous illuminated scenes of Creation opening the Book of Genesis in a mid-13th century Bible decorated by Oxford artist William de Brailes, now @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social MS. Laud lat. 13 📜🌟 A very special treat to see in person for my birthday! 🥳

Fantastic couple of days at All Souls discussing bankruptcy and its development over six centuries - transpires the north quad (pictured) was funded by a bankrupt #dukeofwharton

Très séduit, et même emballé par la nouvelle exposition du musée Jacquemart-André consacrée aux "Splendeurs du baroque" hispanique ! Un propos original, fondé sur la thématique des circulations artistiques entre l'Espagne et les Amériques. Une visite hautement recommandable ! #HDA

"the square table, upon which there is a representation of the city of Constantinople" (Einhard). Does anyone have any suggestions for what this representation might have looked like?

Linda Fritz: Springtime in Notting Hill, London, England

The image showcases the serene Sakuranosato Park in Mie Prefecture, Japan, where vibrant cherry blossoms lean over the tranquil Miyagawa River. This scenic location is celebrated by photographers for the perfect "V-shaped" reflection of the pink blooms against the surrounding evergreen mountains.

[2] The gallery hosts the Finnish national collection of Finnish art. Early works include Nils Schillmark’s (c1795) Still Life. Magnus van Wright’s (1868) Annankatu on a Cold Winter Morning (1868) & Ferdinand von Wright’s In the Garden of Haminalahti (1856-7). Lovely clarity

After five extraordinary years, @latemedievalist.bsky.social and I are stepping down as secretaries of the Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium (now at the beautiful Madingley Hall)! If you are interested in taking over from us, please see here: tinyurl.com/3es36uzh #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Here’s the gold covered wooden box and lid with an ivory handle, containing the silver bracelets of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres. Hetepheres was wife of King Sneferu, and mother of King Khufu. 📷 by me

“What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went, And cannot come again.” A Shropshire Lad: A.E. Housman, poet, scholar, Professor of Latin at ucl.ac.uk & Cambridge; born #OTD 1859.

Sour grapes: Aesop’s Fables, first printed in English, from French translation, by William Caxton, Westminster #OTD 1484. @britishlibrary.bsky.social

The wedding at Cana, 1562-3, Late Renaissance masterpiece, monumental oil on canvas painted for Refectory of San Giorgio monastery, by Paolo Veronese, great Venetian artist (1528-1588), supreme colourist, influenced by Titian, worked with Palladio, inspired Rubens, Tiepolo. Musée du Louvre

Agrigento, Sicilia. Valle dei templi, one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and #architecture.

Spectacular old multi-stem oak at Ericstane near Moffat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in the care of Borders Forest Trust. #woodensday

La Gare Saint-Lazare (Cour du Havre) entre deux averses cet après-midi (oui, en ce moment, je travaille sur l'impressionnisme !).

No other ancient document holds my interest and affection quite like this one papyrus, written in Egypt in the Armenian alphabet. It's a goldmine of linguistic evidence not for the Egyptian or Armenian language, but for Greek! Here's my enthusiastic introduction to it: dannybate.com/2026/03/24/t...

I've been meaning to visit Dulwich Picture Gallery and here's another reason to make the trip to deep dark south London

The cusp of modernity. The rise of art nouveau coincided with that of the automobile. 1904 house/workshop for a builder of both horse-drawn carriages and coachwork for cars. By the 1920s, mass production arrived and this became a factory for communion wafers. Brussels NE, architect Antoine Aulbur.

Stunning 4,600 year-old silver bracelets with inlaid semi-precious stones in the shape of butterflies! 🦋🦋🦋🦋 They belonged to Egyptian Queen Hetepheres. From her tomb at Giza. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c. 2613-2494 BC. Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

Happy #TolkienReadingDay 📖 In 1911, Exeter undergraduate J.R.R. Tolkien borrowed Finnish Grammar from our library — more than once. His love of language would go on to shape the Elvish tongues of Middle-earth. #ExeterCollegeOxford

Just the stone to carve a cheetah 🐆! Anna Maria Massinelli’s new book on the use of the decorative stone Giallo tigrato is available to download at www.academia.edu/165293968/Pa... #decorativestone

Délicatesse et virtuosité de la touche d'Auguste Renoir, que l'on peut admirer actuellement au @museeorsay.bsky.social dans le cadre de l'exposition "Renoir et l'amour". #HDA

Au @museecluny.bsky.social, entre deux époques, d'une beauté fascinante, une statuette en ivoire représentant une figure d'Ariane (atelier de Constantinople, début du VIe siècle). #HDA

Sculptor of the Enlightenment: Jean-Antoine Houdon, French Neoclassical sculptor, known for portrayals of Voltaire, Franklin & Washington, born #OTD 1741. L’Atelier d’Houdon, c. 1803 by Louis-Leopold Boilly, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Voltaire Assis, terre cuite, c 1785, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

The man who drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar, skilled Bohemian draughtsman & etcher of panoramic views, died #OTD 1677; worked in London under patronage of Thomas Howard, ‘Collector Earl’ of Arundel. Fisher Library | Yale University Art Gallery Centre for British Art

25th March is the Feast of the Annunciation BnF MS 1186; Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille; 13th century; f.16r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Oldest bell in Belgium, from c. 1245, found in grass of beguinage garden in Bruges. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

John Locke is often regarded as the founder of liberal politics. The academic consensus is that the point of his writings - published anonymously - was to argue for the legitimacy of rebellion when the sovereign has violated the trust the people have placed in him.

Carved figure of the Virgin Mary from Winchester Cathedral. Dating to the late 15th century, it was once part of the Cathedral’s ‘Great Screen’. Now part of the Cathedral’s ‘Kings and Scribes’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #WinchesterCathedral

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was left barely legible after the Ashburnham House Fire in 1731. Multispectral imaging on the MS has now uncovered texts and images unseen for hundreds of years. Join us at our upcoming conference to learn more. events.bl.uk/events/multi...

Grander Adam at the Royal Society of the Arts:

Michaelina Wautier review – an astounding lost artist steps out of her male contemporaries’ shadows

Lord North Street, its early Georgian houses sit low with St John's towering over them. St John's is proper Roman baroque by Thos Archer.

A Henry VIII door, leading to one of the side chapels in the incredible Kings College Chapel, Cambridge 😀

This is Trier (or Augusta Treverorum) in western Germany. The photos show the Porta Nigra or Black Gate (170AD), the Aula Palatina (early C4th AD), the imperial baths (also early C4th AD) & the amphitheatre (mid-C2nd AD). Incredible remains. #RomanSiteSaturday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

A major announcement from Magdalen College. From 2027, the choir will admit girl choristers for the first time in its almost 550 year history. www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale...

Degas, Pissarro, Foujita : une exceptionnelle collection d’éventails d’artistes se déploie au musée d’Orsay suite à un don inattendu. #Exposition www.beauxarts.com/expos/degas-...

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London

William Morris, Arts & Crafts designer, translator of Icelandic sagas, founder of Kelmscott press, born #OTD 1834. Kelmscott Chaucer 1896, Stanford University | Snakeshead printed textile 1877, Victoria & Albert Museum | Portrait by George Frederick Watts 1870, NationalPortrait Gallery London

John Harrison, English carpenter & clockmaker, invented marine chronometer to determine longitude at sea, born 1693, died #OTD 1776. Science Museum, London

Carlton Road Edinburgh, etched on the spot by Paul Sandby 1750, includes inn with forestair and Trinity Church

Lovely Festival day @gilbertwhites.bsky.social, in the most beautiful, historic setting. Thanks team for the warm welcome! (With @nicwilson.bsky.social)

Le Triptyque de Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn (ivoire, atelier parisien, v. 1300) est l'un des chefs-d'œuvre du @museecluny.bsky.social, donnant à voir avec finesse, souplesse et expressivité, des épisodes de l'Enfance du Christ et de la Passion sur deux registres superposés. #HDA

The Yates Thompson Divine Comedy has been returned online. Commissioned by Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily, this copy of Dante's work has illuminations on every single page (Yates Thompson MS 36) Consult the whole manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

The Cliffs of Moher in Spring sunshine and shade. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Pater noster qui es in caelis BL Add MS 16605; Sacramentarium Gregorianum with supplements by Benedict of Aniane; c.850 CE-c.900 CE; Benedictine Abbey of Stavelot; f.21v @blmedieval.bsky.social

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

The beautiful isolated cliff-top church of Llanbadrig on the north coast of Ynys Môn/Anglesey last Friday The cave of St Patrick lies in the cliffs below Have a great week everyone 👌 📷 My own