#ReliefWednesday Competition pieces by Ghiberti (l) & Brunelleschi (r) (c. 1402) of the scene from the Book of Genesis, where God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to kill Isaac (note the angel who saved the day). 👀 Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology

Floor tiles Duomo di Siena, Italy The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West. Very Escher like. #TilesOnTuesday

🏰 RAPHAEL'S WORLD: Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474). The Ducal Palace at Urbino was a hub of artists, playwrights & poets, incl. Raphael's father Giovanni Santi. More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory

🏰 RAPHAEL'S WORLD: Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474). The Ducal Palace at Urbino was a hub of artists, playwrights & poets, incl. Raphael's father Giovanni Santi. More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory

"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/identity-c...

🖌️ A Brush with Artists: Dürer travelled to Venice in 1505 to broaden his horizon & to learn about the secrets of Southern art. The arrival of so eminent a competitor was not altogether welcome to the minor Venetian artists and Dürer wrote to a friend: 🗃️ #arthistory #art #academia #art #Italy

"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/identity-c...

🗝️ Exquisite details of the Esau & Jacob panel of The Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti. 🔎 Note the ‘self-portrait’ sculpture of Ghiberti on the right bottom corner. 👁️ Read the story behind the story: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #Italy #Renaissance

The Art of Beauty: We’re now in pre-production research of new art films that will be filmed on location in Italy, starting w/ Florence, Pisa, Siena and more! 🪜🎨 Subscribe to our substack for updates, art stories, photos, film clips, etc: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #art #Italy 🏺

For #mosaicmonday a beautiful 12th c. mosaic floor in the Florentine Baptistry where we'll be filming in early 2026 for an upcoming film. The designs of the mosaics give you a sense that you're walking on oriental carpets.➰ 🗃️ #arthistory #Italy 🏺 #archaeology #skystorians

🏛️ What's in a name? "For most of us, the word “educational” is flatly synonymous with “boring” - visual broccoli, if you will." We have a vocabulary problem." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #language #academia #Edusky #Filmsky #museum ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/identity-c...

The Art of Beauty: We’re now in pre-production research of new art films that will be filmed on location in Italy, starting w/ Florence, Pisa, Siena and more! 🪜🎨 Subscribe to our substack for updates, art stories, photos, film clips, etc: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #art #Italy 🏺

🐱 This #cat playing a tiny harp is hilarious! #Caturday 🏺 #Egypt #Roman

For #caturday a #Greek terracotta dinos, ca. 630–615 BCE. 🦁 🐐 This dinos - a bowl used for wine diluted w/ water consumed at symposia - is decorated w/ panthers & sphinxes (top row) & below are goats & lions between sphinxes. 🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cats #goat #catsofbluesky

For #frescofriday a beautiful detail of Raphael's Triumph of Galatea, 1512. 🎬 You can now watch Part 2 of Raphael: A Portrait about Raphael's single-minded pursuit of artistic perfection by whatever means necessary. 🍿👇 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art

For #frescofriday a beautiful detail of Raphael's Triumph of Galatea, 1512. 🎬 You can now watch Part 2 of Raphael: A Portrait about Raphael's single-minded pursuit of artistic perfection by whatever means necessary. 🍿👇 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art

🔎 The Florentine Baptistery is a symbol of the city & masterpiece of Romanesque architecture with its dome entirely covered with Byzantine mosaics, currently under restoration. More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🏺 #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #Italy #skystorians #Byzantine

#adoorablethursday A beautiful relief door of San Ranieri on Pisa Cathedral by Bonanno da Pisa (c. 1180). 🚪 Read a 💯 story on how these doors were a likely inspiration for the Florentine Baptistry doors: 🔑 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Florence #Italy

#adoorablethursday A beautiful relief door of San Ranieri on Pisa Cathedral by Bonanno da Pisa (c. 1180). 🚪 Read a 💯 story on how these doors were a likely inspiration for the Florentine Baptistry doors: 🔑 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Florence #Italy

#ReliefWednesday Competition pieces by Ghiberti (l) & Brunelleschi (r) (c. 1402) of the scene from the Book of Genesis, where God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to kill Isaac (note the angel who saved the day). 👀 Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology

🚪 Revolving Doors: Read about not only Lorenzo Ghiberti’s doors for the Florentine Baptistery but also its other sculptured doors & fascinating history. We're in pre-production of a film 🎬 about Florentine masterworks. 🏛️ #arthistory #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

🏛️ Strange idea: some people actually enjoy being made to feel ignorant about art & culture 🙃 'Performance artist’s aggressive art historian shouts at visitors and insults curators – his tours are sold out.' 🗃️ #arthistory #museum @philipoltermann.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🔎 The Florentine Baptistery is a symbol of the city & masterpiece of Romanesque architecture with its dome entirely covered with Byzantine mosaics, currently under restoration. More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🏺 #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #Italy #skystorians #Byzantine

🚪 Revolving Doors: Read about not only Lorenzo Ghiberti’s doors for the Florentine Baptistery but also its other sculptured doors & fascinating history. We're in pre-production of a film 🎬 about Florentine masterworks. 🏛️ #arthistory #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

For #caturday a #Greek terracotta dinos, ca. 630–615 BCE. 🦁 🐐 This dinos - a bowl used for wine diluted w/ water consumed at symposia - is decorated w/ panthers & sphinxes (top row) & below are goats & lions between sphinxes. 🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cats #goat #catsofbluesky

Art is much more than what meets the eye. By understanding the context behind the art, we unlock the deeper meaning of art, transforming it from a static image into a living story. 🎬 Get your free pass to watch Part 1 👇 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

Art films are often presented without explaining the context which enriches our appreciation by unlocking the deeper meaning of art, transforming it from a static image into a living story. 🎬 More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Roman 🏺 #archaeology

Art films are often presented without explaining the context which enriches our appreciation by unlocking the deeper meaning of art, transforming it from a static image into a living story. 🎬 More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Roman 🏺 #archaeology

🧑‍🎨 "The young Sofonisba created an impressive array of high-quality portraits, many of which her ambitious father sent as gifts to the great and the good in order to establish her artistic reputation." Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas... 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #skystorians

Art is much more than what meets the eye. By understanding the context behind the art, we unlock the deeper meaning of art, transforming it from a static image into a living story. 🎬 Get your free pass to watch Part 1 👇 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

🧑‍🎨 "The young Sofonisba created an impressive array of high-quality portraits, many of which her ambitious father sent as gifts to the great and the good in order to establish her artistic reputation." Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas... 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #skystorians

🐾 🚪 For #AdoorableThursday a door knocker in the shape of a small dog, 15th or 16th c., Spain. 🏛️ Met 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #earlymodern #spain #Dog #dogsofbluesky

"The statues had been deliberately abandoned in Puteoli in order to build the new city on top. That is to say, the people who backfilled it KNEW that they were throwing away ancient statues." Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology #Roman

Beautiful! 🦆 🦆 I wonder what else was found when they were digging up the ground for a new railway 🚋 🏺 #Archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

"The statues had been deliberately abandoned in Puteoli in order to build the new city on top. That is to say, the people who backfilled it KNEW that they were throwing away ancient statues." Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology #Roman

🖌️ 🎨 Artist in His Studio by Rembrandt, c. 1628. An artist stands in an almost empty studio daunted by the task of creation & a huge easel blocking the door. This tiny painting demonstrates that making art is a product of the mind as well as the hand. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #dutch #earlymodern

"Italians, you might be intrigued to learn, have a most fitting phrase for precisely this phenomenon: Se non e vero, e ben trovato – which roughly amounts to: it’s likely not true, but it’s a good story." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/renaissanc...

"Italians, you might be intrigued to learn, have a most fitting phrase for precisely this phenomenon: Se non e vero, e ben trovato – which roughly amounts to: it’s likely not true, but it’s a good story." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/renaissanc...

🏺“You think that by digging up sculptures you’ve saved them, but you never dig up sthg that is capable of standing on its own two feet. You must intervene at once in order to ensure that it doesn’t crumble under your 👀." 🛋️ ▶️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu... #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

For #caturday part of a precious #Roman funerary bed with bone carvings (2nd-1st c. BC) from Fossa Necropolis, Abruzzo, Southern Italy. Notice the lions, dragons/dogs & last but not least a dolphin! 🐬 🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cat #catsofbluesky

🏺 Why do we no longer build gutters like this? An early one for #caturday this stunning lion! #Archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

🏺“You think that by digging up sculptures you’ve saved them, but you never dig up sthg that is capable of standing on its own two feet. You must intervene at once in order to ensure that it doesn’t crumble under your 👀." 🛋️ ▶️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu... #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

A fund-raising dinner among Parthenon sculptures? Has the British Museum lost its marbles❓ "Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni accused the museum of showing “provocative indifference” to the protection and dignity of world heritage monuments." 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #skystorians #greece

💯 Read a thoughtful essay & watch a captivating conversation: 💬 "The interesting question is not just, Why do people excavate and look for the past? but, When do they not want to find the past?" 🏺 #archaeology #skystorians #findsfriday #Pompeii ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu...

🎲 Let's play! A marble tablet of women playing knucklebones signed by "Alexander of Athens" from #Herculaneum Friday we'll release our conversation w/ Andrew Wallace-Hadrill here: ideasroadshow.substack.com Subscribe now to get your 🎟️. 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology #Rome #Pompeii #ClassicsBluesky

For #adoorablethursday a beautiful panel w/ Saint Mark & the winged lion by Lorenzo Ghiberti on a door of the Florence Baptistery. 🎬 We'll feature the Baptistery & all its magnificent art in one of our upcoming documentaries filmed on location in Florence. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians

🎬 Watch Language & Culture featuring Carol Padden, David Bellos, Michael Berry & Pankaj Mishra on Ideas Roadshow Behind The Lens 👇 #language #linguistics #ASL #signlanguage #Deaf #Asia #translation @dannybate.bsky.social @grammargirl.bsky.social ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/language-a...

Stunning doors - we look forward to filming there soon for one of our upcoming films about Italian treasures. #AdoorableThursday 🗃️ #arthistory

👨‍🎨 Love this - may it last! 🗃️ #arthistory

🎲 Let's play! A marble tablet of women playing knucklebones signed by "Alexander of Athens" from #Herculaneum Friday we'll release our conversation w/ Andrew Wallace-Hadrill here: ideasroadshow.substack.com Subscribe now to get your 🎟️. 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology #Rome #Pompeii #ClassicsBluesky