Annunciation by Francesco del Cossa, c. 1470, Berlin Gemäldegalerie. 🐌 For all snail lovers, note the gargantuan snail at the bottom. More about this painting in tomorrow’s post on Exploring Art History! 🖌️ Subscribe for free here: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #snail #art

♥️ Take a close look at the cypher in Sofonisba’s miniature: 🔎 It includes an elaborately constructed faux-relief of golden letters all linked together. Read below for its lovely meaning. ♥️ 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #artherstory #art #valentinesday ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

Annunciation by Francesco del Cossa, c. 1470, Berlin Gemäldegalerie. 🐌 For all snail lovers, note the gargantuan snail at the bottom. More about this painting in tomorrow’s post on Exploring Art History! 🖌️ Subscribe for free here: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #snail #art

For #caturday a medieval snail cat! 🐌 🐈 📕 This remarkable creature is depicted in the Maastricht Hours – an illuminated devotional manuscript produced in the Netherlands during the early 1300s. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art #cat #cats #design #booksky

The Allegory of Prudence by Titian, c. 1550–1565. ✍️ There is a small Latin inscription above the heads, a helpful reminder for all of us: "From the experience of the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future actions". 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #lion #caturday #renaissance

💛 Angelo annunciante, Sano di Pietro, 1450, Siena. 'I am not sure why but the more I looked at the Angelo annunciante the more I felt a deep pain in my chest, as though I were longing for a specific person, a place or a time now forever gone.' - Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena. 🗃️ #arthistory #art

For #caturday a medieval snail cat! 🐌 🐈 📕 This remarkable creature is depicted in the Maastricht Hours – an illuminated devotional manuscript produced in the Netherlands during the early 1300s. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art #cat #cats #design #booksky

♥️ Take a close look at the cypher in Sofonisba’s miniature: 🔎 It includes an elaborately constructed faux-relief of golden letters all linked together. Read below for its lovely meaning. ♥️ 🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #artherstory #art #valentinesday ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🎬 It’s Film Friday! 🌸 “The film is beautifully made, has a clear structure and is rich in interesting information.” – Gert Jan van der Sman, Dutch University Institute for Art History 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #academia #art #filmsky ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli...

💠 Mourning angels in the fresco 'Lamentation' by Giotto (1305), Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Giotto was particularly strong in expressing the physicality of sorrow. Look at all the different expressions and hand gestures. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday #medievalsky #art

A very thin patina was deposited over the years on the surface of “The Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. 🧽 This is now being cleaned - 🔎 Take a close look at the remarkable result! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday #art #Italy #renaissance

🪩 It's Friday, let's play music & dance! Look at this stunning terracotta vase by the so-called Berlin painter of a young man singing and playing a kithara, c. 490 BC. 🔎 Note how the cloth below the instrument sways gently 🍃. 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #ancientbluesky #Greek #archaeology

💠 Mourning angels in the fresco 'Lamentation' by Giotto (1305), Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Giotto was particularly strong in expressing the physicality of sorrow. Look at all the different expressions and hand gestures. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday #medievalsky #art

🎬 It’s Film Friday! 🌸 “The film is beautifully made, has a clear structure and is rich in interesting information.” – Gert Jan van der Sman, Dutch University Institute for Art History 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #academia #art #filmsky ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli...

The famous Florentine Baptistery doors were likely influenced by the hugely impressive doors of San Ranieri of Pisa Cathedral by Bonanno da Pisa (c. 1180). 🚪 Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance 🏺

For #AdoorableThursday look at all the doors in this detail of one of the Maestà Predella Panels by Duccio called The Healing of the Man Born Blind. 🚪 Do you notice anything about the doors (and windows as well)❓ 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky

Definitely not a Bad Bunny! 🐰 Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer, 1502. 🔦 Note the warm golden light that hits the hare from the left. 👁️ Take a close look for a reflection of the window frame in the hare's eye! 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art #rabbit

The famous Florentine Baptistery doors were likely influenced by the hugely impressive doors of San Ranieri of Pisa Cathedral by Bonanno da Pisa (c. 1180). 🚪 Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance 🏺

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🧹 Need a timeline cleanse? Read Only Connect 👇 "For all its wondrous ability to seamlessly combine beauty and curiosity, perhaps the thing I love most about art history is its capacity to emotionally connect us to others." 🗃️ #arthistory🏺 #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/only-connect

🪩 Let’s dance! For Ambrogio Lorenzetti (as later for Matisse), when people move together in a circle they portray an image of social well-being that follows from communal freedom & justice. Note the 9️⃣ dancers! 💃 ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory🏺 #skystorians #medievalsky #Italy #france

🐦 Bird’s-eye view of Siena. In the heart is Piazza del Campo (“Il Campo”) which is divided into 9 scallop shell-shaped sections. This is symbolic of the rule of ‘The Nine’: Siena was led by a "Council of Nine" known at the time as “Il Buon Governo”. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art 🏺 #skystorians

🐰 Ceci n'est pas un Bad Bunny! Look at this hare riding a hound with a trained 🐌 ‘snail of prey’, Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, c. 1390 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art

🧹 Need a timeline cleanse? Read Only Connect 👇 "For all its wondrous ability to seamlessly combine beauty and curiosity, perhaps the thing I love most about art history is its capacity to emotionally connect us to others." 🗃️ #arthistory🏺 #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/only-connect

🐰 Happy Bad Bunny Day! In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD. #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic

🐰 Happy Bad Bunny Day! In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD. #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic

⚒️ Ever heard of ‘graffito’? It’s an old technique where the design of a mosaic is traced on white marble slabs using a chisel & a drill and then filled in with black stucco. Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/syncretic-... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #medievalsky #renaissance #mosaic

Read about the magnificent pavement mosaics in Siena Cathedral that Giorgio Vasari described as “the most beautiful, greatest and most magnificent ever made.” #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #medievalsky #renaissance ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/syncretic-...

'The Hellespontine Sibyl' (late 15th c.) made with an exquisite use of the intarsia technique by incorporating black, white and coloured marble in much the same manner as wood inlaying. 🔎 Read more on Exploring Art History: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/syncretic-... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺

Read about the magnificent pavement mosaics in Siena Cathedral that Giorgio Vasari described as “the most beautiful, greatest and most magnificent ever made.” #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #medievalsky #renaissance ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/syncretic-...

🦁 For #caturday a fresco of The Creation of the Animals by Raphael (1518-19) in Raphael's Loggia, Palazzo Apostolico. Odd how there are many parts of animals visible (see the heads of the horse and dog f.e.) - still in the midst of being created? 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #cats #lion #design 🏺

🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

"Earth", a portrait by Milanese artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, c. 1566. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #cats #lion #caturday #renaissance #design

🦁 For #caturday a fresco of The Creation of the Animals by Raphael (1518-19) in Raphael's Loggia, Palazzo Apostolico. Odd how there are many parts of animals visible (see the heads of the horse and dog f.e.) - still in the midst of being created? 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #cats #lion #design 🏺

🪢 🔥 Did you know that the design of the Olympic cauldron is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated knots? ☕ Leonardo had a historic connection with Milan where he was in the service of Ludovico Sforza, as an engineer, architect, sculptor & painter for 20 yrs. #olympics 🗃️ #arthistory #art

🪢 🔥 Did you know that the design of the Olympic cauldron is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated knots? ☕ Leonardo had a historic connection with Milan where he was in the service of Ludovico Sforza, as an engineer, architect, sculptor & painter for 20 yrs. #olympics 🗃️ #arthistory #art

🎬 It’s Film Friday! In Part 4 of Botticelli’s Primavera we explore how Botticelli was a ‘visual poet’ who actively participated in the prevailing Renaissance humanist culture of his time. Watch here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

🎬 It’s Film Friday! In Part 4 of Botticelli’s Primavera we explore how Botticelli was a ‘visual poet’ who actively participated in the prevailing Renaissance humanist culture of his time. Watch here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

For #AdoorableThursday look at all the doors in this detail of one of the Maestà Predella Panels by Duccio called The Healing of the Man Born Blind. 🚪 Do you notice anything about the doors (and windows as well)❓ 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky

☔ Rue de Paris, Temps de Pluie, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877. 🗃️ #arthistory #art

🦶💋 Did you know there was a devotional practice of kissing the Virgin's foot in early Sienese art? 🔎 Take a clue from the subtly protruding foot underneath the mantle of the Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285). Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in... 🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky

🦶💋 Did you know there was a devotional practice of kissing the Virgin's foot in early Sienese art? 🔎 Take a clue from the subtly protruding foot underneath the mantle of the Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285). Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in... 🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky

🏺 🐾 For #EpigraphyTuesday a funerary monuments for a beloved #Roman dog, Margarita (‘Pearl’), with a Tolstoyan-style eulogy by the dog herself. #ancientblueksy #ClassicsBluesky 🗃️ #history #animals #dogs

📀 Check out these "floating" halos in perspective in The Tribute Money by Masaccio, 1424, Brancacci Chapel. 🟡 They are pretty plain looking halos compared to the intricate halos that can be seen here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #medievalsky #Italy

Pinturicchio was an “early adopter” of fantastical images called “grotesques”, found in recently rediscovered #Roman caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s Domus Aurea. 🌕 Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺

🔎 Find out about the fascinating relationships between the vault in the Piccolomini Library and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and that of Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...

Pinturicchio was an “early adopter” of fantastical images called “grotesques”, found in recently rediscovered #Roman caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s Domus Aurea. 🌕 Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺

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🔎 Find out about the fascinating relationships between the vault in the Piccolomini Library and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and that of Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...