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

Read this fascinating article about Sofonisba Anguissola, here: www.worldhistory.org/Sofonisba_An... 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #skystorians #artherstory #art

🕰️ “The pendulum might yet swing back from our steadily narrowing of interests, that at some point we’ll get fed up with being continually presented with the same old stuff." 🍽️ Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-power-... 🗃️ #arthistory #culture #academicsky #art #filmsky 🏺🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

🕰️ “The pendulum might yet swing back from our steadily narrowing of interests, that at some point we’ll get fed up with being continually presented with the same old stuff." 🍽️ Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-power-... 🗃️ #arthistory #culture #academicsky #art #filmsky 🏺🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

🫧 Just ran into this mesmerizing aquatint of a soap bubble exhibiting interference colours by M. Rapine, c. 1883, after B. Desgoffe. 🏛️ Welcome Collection 🗃️ #arthistory

🌶️ "How do you get the message out that there are many captivating ideas around that people would surely be interested in, when everyone’s primary way of engagement w/ the world is through algorithms based upon their previous choices?" 🗃️ 🏺 🧪 ⚛️ 🔬🔭 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-power-...

♠️ ♦️The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de La Tour, c. 1636–1638. 🏛️ As far as we know, this painting is still in the Louvre 🪜 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

🌶️ "How do you get the message out that there are many captivating ideas around that people would surely be interested in, when everyone’s primary way of engagement w/ the world is through algorithms based upon their previous choices?" 🗃️ 🏺 🧪 ⚛️ 🔬🔭 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-power-...

🏺 🦉 The Art of Emotion: for #mosaicmonday take a look at this mosaic glass inlay of an owl, #Roman problaby Egyptian, circa 1st c.BC. #archaeology #Egypt #owl

🔍 Always happy to see work by contemporary artists creating beauty in this not so beautiful time. #StainedGlassSunday 🗃️ #arthistory

🪩 Let's dance! Two dancers by Chana Orloff, 1914. She was one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century but still very underappreciated. 🥐 Her work can be found in Chana Orloff Ateliers-Museum in the heart of Paris' 14th. 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #skystorians #art #design #artherstory

For #caturday a tiger from the beautifully illuminated Aberdeen Bestiary. c. 1200. 🐅 This image was clearly made by someone who had never seen a tiger in real life - a kind of medieval AI version. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #tiger #cat #catsofbluesky #cat