🚗 🧳 The Bourges astronomical clock, the oldest (15th century) extant 🕰️ type in France, Bourges Cathedral. A present by Charles VII on the occasion of the baptism of his son, the future Louis XI. 🧳 Full travel diary: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #Gothic #art

🚗 We're en route to Italy! Yesterday we stopped in Bourges where we visited the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges, built in Gothic style, 1195-1230. It is decorated w/ a large number of splendid 13th-c. #stainedglass windows. 🧳 Travel diary: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #Gothic #art

"I have two big problems with modern art. The first is that I have no idea what it actually is." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/modern-fru...

For Whistler art was not a vehicle for social justice, moral elevation or personal development. The goal of art, all art, was simply to create beauty. Read a thoughtful essay about Whistler, his art & Ten O'Clock, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/modern-fru.... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art

For Whistler art was not a vehicle for social justice, moral elevation or personal development. The goal of art, all art, was simply to create beauty. Read a thoughtful essay about Whistler, his art & Ten O'Clock, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/modern-fru.... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art

"I have two big problems with modern art. The first is that I have no idea what it actually is." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/modern-fru...

🏺 🐟 How exquisite! A beautiful #Roman flask from a time when beauty still mattered! 🗃️ #arthistory #archaeology

🚗 We’re almost ready to go on our Italian Grand Tour! First stop: the Egyptian museum in Turin. 👇 🦁 The line drawings behind the sphinxes show how they would have been presented originally - stunning! Sign up for our travelogue: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🏺 #caturday 🗃️ #arthistory #Egypt #art

Medieval advice during heatwave: “Sit on the riverbank with your legs in the water and leeches on your legs.” Things are quieter than usual here because of not only a blistering heatwave but also a power outrage for 28 hours which meant no internet = no information. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky 🏺

🚗 We’re almost ready to go on our Italian Grand Tour! First stop: the Egyptian museum in Turin. 👇 🦁 The line drawings behind the sphinxes show how they would have been presented originally - stunning! Sign up for our travelogue: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🏺 #caturday 🗃️ #arthistory #Egypt #art

Medieval advice during heatwave: “Sit on the riverbank with your legs in the water and leeches on your legs.” Things are quieter than usual here because of not only a blistering heatwave but also a power outrage for 28 hours which meant no internet = no information. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky 🏺

🖌️ Would you like to brush up on common art terms? FRESCO - The fresco (literally ‘fresh’) wall-painting technique dates back to antiquity and was evived during the 20th century by Mexican muralists like Diego Riviera. ... 👇READ MORE👇 #frescofriday 🏺 🗃️ #arthistory substack.com/@ideasroadsh...

Portrait of Galileo by Justus Sustermans, 1635. 🔭 Galileo came from a humanist family & he expressed many research insights through the trendy literary form of a Renaissance dialogue. Read about how beauty impacted his research: 👁️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #science

Portrait of Galileo by Justus Sustermans, 1635. 🔭 Galileo came from a humanist family & he expressed many research insights through the trendy literary form of a Renaissance dialogue. Read about how beauty impacted his research: 👁️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #science

Tomb monument for Alfonsina de' Medici Orsini, Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. This quietly arresting monument was erected by her daughter, Clarice. Read about the subtle #architecture of grief: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/overlooked... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

Tomb monument for Alfonsina de' Medici Orsini, Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. This quietly arresting monument was erected by her daughter, Clarice. Read about the subtle #architecture of grief: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/overlooked... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

🐾 The period eye & the need for context: Girolamo Savonarola had triumphantly placed Donatello’s David - an avowedly homoerotic statue - in the Piazza della Signoria where he had initiated the famous “Bonfire of the Vanities”. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

A stunning mosaic of the river god Eurymedon with a spectular green hairdo! 💚 Watch the related video via the link @drnwillburger.bsky.social shared below. It's very uplifting to see the uncovering of this beauty millimeter by millimeter! #Findsfriday 🏺 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

🖌️ Would you like to brush up on common art terms? FRESCO - The fresco (literally ‘fresh’) wall-painting technique dates back to antiquity and was evived during the 20th century by Mexican muralists like Diego Riviera. ... 👇READ MORE👇 #frescofriday 🏺 🗃️ #arthistory substack.com/@ideasroadsh...

❓"Isn’t it the business of history to put ourselves into the hearts or minds of those being investigated?" Read Looking For Clues for the need to use the period eye to understand the past in the present: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/looking-fo... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #art

❓"Isn’t it the business of history to put ourselves into the hearts or minds of those being investigated?" Read Looking For Clues for the need to use the period eye to understand the past in the present: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/looking-fo... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #art

The Artist’s Sister Minerva Anguissola, c. 1564. 🔎 Note the medallion delineating attributes of the Roman goddess Minerva. Find out more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/taking-ano... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists

Watch an illustrated video podcast with @jillburke.bsky.social about the nude in Italian Renaissance art & changing beauty standards for women related to the newly fashionable statues from Antiquity. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists 🏺 youtu.be/5tLubAF_X2Y

🐾 The period eye & the need for context: Girolamo Savonarola had triumphantly placed Donatello’s David - an avowedly homoerotic statue - in the Piazza della Signoria where he had initiated the famous “Bonfire of the Vanities”. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

Detail of Albrecht Durer’s engraving of Saint Jerome in his Study, 1514. ♥️ To draw animals this way you must love and respect animals! Have you visited Exploring Art History yet? Visit us here: substack.com/@ideasroadshow. 🗃️ #arthistory #Art #caturday #lion #dog #cat

Gorgeous! 🏺

The Artist’s Sister Minerva Anguissola, c. 1564. 🔎 Note the medallion delineating attributes of the Roman goddess Minerva. Find out more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/taking-ano... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists

🐕 Art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was a lifelong lover of dogs. When his dog had died, the entire IAS got together to get him an Irish Setter puppy. Here is a scroll in #Greek w/ all their names. 🐾 Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #dog

Happy June everybody! June panel from a #Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia #mosaicmonday

From this week's art essay: "If you want to learn about art, read as much as you can as carefully as possible, but always remember to keep both your mind and your eyes wide open." Read here: 👁️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/taking-ano... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

🦁 Interested in impressing your guests with a napkin in the shape of The Winged Lion of Saint Mark in Venice? Try to make these napkin sculptures designed by Mattia Giegher as detailed in his Treatise on Napkin Folding), 1629! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #caturday #lion #cat #Italy #design

🪶 The antique deity Thoth is represented as an ibis w/ its beak supported by a feather, the symbol of Maat, goddess of justice, #Egypt, 360–343 BCE. Read this week’s essay Pray Like An Egyptian here 📜 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-art-of... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Egypt #archaeology 🏺 #art

An elegant pinhead in the shape of an ibex, ca. 8th–7th c. BC, Iran. The ibex is a distinctly Iranian motif, as they are native to the Zagros Mountains of western Iran 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #design

👢 Map of Italy by friar/geographer Ignazio Danti + his painter brother Antonio Danti, The Gallery of Maps, Vatican. 📍 Read our 🗞️ for updates about new art films, art essays & podcasts w/ art experts : www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor... #frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #frescofriday #Rome

👢 Map of Italy by friar/geographer Ignazio Danti + his painter brother Antonio Danti, The Gallery of Maps, Vatican. 📍 Read our 🗞️ for updates about new art films, art essays & podcasts w/ art experts : www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor... #frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #frescofriday #Rome

Fresco showing a shipwreck from the West House in Akrotiri, on the Greek island of Santorini. Bronze Age, 17th century BC. #frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology

🏺🏺 ‘Bilingual amphora’ w/ Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice, & Ajax and Achilles playing a game, 6th c. BC, a transitional period when black-figure was replaced by red-figure. ▶️ READ: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/artistic-e... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia

🏺🏺 ‘Bilingual amphora’ w/ Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice, & Ajax and Achilles playing a game, 6th c. BC, a transitional period when black-figure was replaced by red-figure. ▶️ READ: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/artistic-e... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia

🏺 NEW: an illustrated video podcast w/ ancient #Greek architectural historian Sam Holzman about 'bilingual' column capitals & vases, curiously angled stones, restorations, and more. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia @princetonupress.bsky.social youtu.be/pSRa7WSrJ-0

🏺 NEW: an illustrated video podcast w/ ancient #Greek architectural historian Sam Holzman about 'bilingual' column capitals & vases, curiously angled stones, restorations, and more. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia @princetonupress.bsky.social youtu.be/pSRa7WSrJ-0

A brilliantly weird entry for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Anyone who’s studied the humanities gets confronted with this: ❓“What you’re doing is very interesting, but when are you going to turn your attention to the real world?” 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/artistic-e...

Happy June everybody! June panel from a #Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia #mosaicmonday

Anyone who’s studied the humanities gets confronted with this: ❓“What you’re doing is very interesting, but when are you going to turn your attention to the real world?” 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/artistic-e...

Mosaic in the Baths of Neptune, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, c. 139. 🌊 This mosaic must have made quite a splash at the time, and still does! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #mosaicmonday #canicule #heatwave

🐩 René Magritte with Loulou, one of his four Pomeranian dogs, Brussels, 1944. 🎩 🧥 Check out the surrealistic coat & hat behind him - coincidence? 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #magritte #dog #dogsofbluesky #art

Michelangelo had a long and fruitful collaboration with Marcello Venusti (1512-79). His paintings were recognized as Michelangelo inventions and universally attributed to him, “di sua mano” (by his hand). ✍️ Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/carving-ou... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia

M.C. Escher’s woodcut of San Gimignano, 1923. Looking forward to visiting San Gimignano again to do lots of filming and photography for upcoming art films! Join us for travel updates: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #medievalsky #academia #art

M.C. Escher’s woodcut of San Gimignano, 1923. Looking forward to visiting San Gimignano again to do lots of filming and photography for upcoming art films! Join us for travel updates: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #medievalsky #academia #art

Mosaic in the Baths of Neptune, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, c. 139. 🌊 This mosaic must have made quite a splash at the time, and still does! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #mosaicmonday #canicule #heatwave