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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4h

The anatomy lesson: painted by Rembrandt in 1632, depicting annual dissection at Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, conducted by celebrated City Anatomist & later Mayor of Amsterdam, Dr Nicolaes Tulp, born #OTD 1593.
Mauritshuis, den Haag

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 2d

Cracking visit to Abbotsford today (memo to self, read more Walter Scott). Of course, elements of a busman's holiday in visiting another member of the Lit Houses group: you spend a lot of time reading about cataloguing projects and spotting the environmental monitoring kit. Recommended, anyway!

A turretted, Scottish-baronial style country house seen slightly from below. A Scottish flag flies from the left turret.

A 19th century stately home library, with a cast iron balcony running round the room a little over head height. A large tiled entrance hall is visible through a door, where two people stand talking.

A display board, headed (in italic handwriting-style type): "The Cataloghuing Conundrum". Below, three paragraphs begin "For archives to be usable and accessible, they must first be accessible. Our new cataloguing project will lead to the creation of a searchable database of the Scott family papers for the very first time."

19th century leather-bound books behind mesh in a bookcase. A white light meter, looking like an old-fashioned mobile phone, sits in front of the mesh.

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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 1d

Southbank.

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TMBtrain @hmcclaff.bsky.social · 2d

#thicktrunktuesday this tree guards the entrance to a bridge over the railway at Culloden Wood.

A large tree with a forked trunk stands at the entrance to a footbridge which is only visible to the viewer as 2 curved walls. To cross the bridge the tree must be stepped around. There is a large boulder at it's base. The tree is mostly in shade while the background is in full sunshine.

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Peter Clayton @petermclayton.bsky.social · 1d

Grey Heron #birds

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Jacob Sheep - River #GreatOuse.

#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
#FenEdge #TheFens

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

The Uffizi Madonna, c 1465, tempera on wood, Renaissance masterpiece by Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine artist, teacher of Botticelli, patronised by Cosimo de’ Medici, died #OTD 1469; the tender intimacy & purity of Madonna & child, with rugged landscape of rocks & sea beyond.
Gallerie degli Uffizi

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Gillian Darley @gmdarksky.bsky.social · 1d

Glorious Titian panel at the Scoletto (little Scuola) at San Antonio Padua. Look carefully. It is sublime.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 1d

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 1d

Really pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here:
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

theconversation.com

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 2d

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 2d

Signing of the Admissions Books continues today in the Wren Library. Here's Isaac Newton's entry from 1667.

A book from 1667 containing the written entry of Isaac Newton when he joined Trinity College.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 2d

Another gem - literally speaking this time - from today's trip to Sorø. The ring found in the grave of Archbishop Absalon of Lund (r.1177-92). The stone is a Sri Lanka sapphire, testifying to the wide reach of Afro-Eurasian trade networks in the Middle Ages.

A gold ring with a flat pyramidical top in which is inlaid a violet sapphire.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist & Nobel Laureate, born #OTD 1885; pioneered research on atomic structure & quantum theory; admired for moral leadership in support of other refugee scientists in 1930’s & of founding CERN 1954; commemorated at Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen University
@cern.bsky.social

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 2d

Classical Vienna. -- Stephansdom, detail. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 2d

Stamford, Lincolnshire, is full of excellent historic buildings - but it also has this fabulous Norman arch and enticing cobbled passageway 😍

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most painful and interesting things about writing is just how much you need to read, see and consider, that you will not include in the end. But you cannot write what you are writing unless you have thought about it.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed this blog post on Japanese colours from the Heian period a lot. I didn't know what "kasane" is and it's so well explained here:

Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 3d

I've been working on this piece since last month! Please enjoy a dive into magnificent natural colours from Heian Japan, just published on #Caravanserai.
majnouna.substack.com/p/kasane

Kasane

The most refined art of wearing the seasons

majnouna.substack.com

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Oct 7

One of Trinity’s longest traditions is the annual signing of the Admissions Book. Today, 266 new students will inscribe their names in College history by signing the book themselves. ✍🏾 The images show poet Lord Alfred Tennyson’s entry from 1827, along with personal details written in his own hand.

Trinity College Admissions Book: some entries from 1827, including that of Lord Alfred Tennyson, who matriculated at the age of 18.

Detail from the Admissions Book entry of Lord Alfred Tennyson.

Personal Details of Lord Alfred Tennyson.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 3d

The Basilisk: don't look into its eyes! 😳😱

"'Basilisk'...is the king of the snakes...it also kills a human if it looks at one...However, the basilisk may be overcome by weasels."
'Etymologies' Bk XII.iv.6 by Isidore of Seville

BL Royal MS 12 C XIX; Bestiary; c 1200-c 1210 CE; England; f.63r

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Peter Clayton @petermclayton.bsky.social · 2d

Goldfinch in flight #birds

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · 2d

#ManuscriptMonday from a flying visit to Words on the Wave @nmireland.bsky.social 📚

An exquisite show with wonderful archaeological objects, but always a joy to see books at the heart of an exhibition.

#NationalMuseumofIreland #IrishManuscripts #FaddenMorePsalter #KinaleBookShrine

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 3d

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

www.bbc.com

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