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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran

@lc-beguines.bsky.social

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Historian of early modern #4B Catholic women, especially their patronage of art & architecture. Mostly Southern Low Countries. #nuntastic Developmental scholarly editing: www.SJMoranEditing.com

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · Apr 25

My article "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture" out now in the new special issue of the Early Modern Low Countries journal. Issue is on women, both North & South LC. Check out the other authors' pieces too!
#ArtHistory
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory

emlc-journal.org/article/view...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7d

The three children of Christian II of Denmark: Dorothea, John, & Christina. So much excellence in this picture, painted 1526 by Jan Gossaert.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 11d

There is a wonderful new book about this artist -

Maria Sibylla Merian
By Catherine Powell-Warren

Available to UK/ROW consumers from
@lhartbooks.bsky.social: www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar...

Available to US/North American consumers from Getty Publications:
shop.getty.edu/products/mar...

Maria Sibylla Merian

This captivating study of the life and career of Maria Sibylla Merian focuses on her artistic output and accomplishments.

shop.getty.edu

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 12d

An update on the nuns on the run.

‘We were obedient our entire lives’: the nuns who broke back into their convent

Three nuns fled a care home to return to the convent, defying church orders and gaining global support – but their future remains unknown

www.theguardian.com

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting #NewAcq: a manuscript occasional Dutch poem, written and recited for the jubilee of Maria Anna Barbara Van der Meer, in the Tongeren beguinage in 1775 #Nuntastic.

We have plenty of these in print, but few in #manuscript and none as a 📜 with wooden shafts!

📚💙 #BookHistory (EHC 912571)

A scroll: a large piece of paper attached to two wooden beams used as rollers. On the paper, two colums of handwritten text.

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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 12d

One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while.

Conceptions of property in Soviet economics, from micro and macro lenses, but fun!

Like this lil glass hedgehog, for example.

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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A

This talk is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.

www.vam.ac.uk

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13d

Wax sculptor Daniel Neuberger (1621-1680) made this "Kaiserautomat" a life-size automaton of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, constructed out of wax, human hair, silk, and wood, that could apparently move via a series of internal clockworks (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I

Wax head of life-size, head of Emperor Leopold I, detached from bust with wig removed

Close up of eye of life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I, with visible eyelashes

Detail of life-size, hyperrealistic bust of Emperor Leopold I showing face

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 15d

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Sofonisba’s Impact
by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...

Howard discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian #womenartists, including her own sisters.

Sofonisba's Impact

Howard Burton discusses the life and art of Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola, focusing on her impact on other women artists.

artherstory.net

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 15d

#Newbookannouncement!

Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits
by Emanuele Lugli, Chiara Palillo
corraini.com/en/lavinia-w...

Lavinia’s wondrous portraits brings children closer to the work of Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), a professional artist from Bologna who was famous above all as a portrait painter.

Lavinia’s wondrous portraits

corraini.com

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Helena Schöb @helenaschoeb.bsky.social · 15d

🌷 "Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is."
(Lord Tennyson)

🌸 The Dutch National Library & De Gruyter Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social warmly invite you to the festive book presentation of...

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17d

This is gorgeous!

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 17d

Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) and Paolo Antonio Barbieri, The Fruit Vendor, 1655 (Private collection)

A painting of a woman in a headscarf counting coins with a still-life consisting of fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and a scale on the table in front of her

Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17d

This one incident may not seem important (and ok, it's not really), but I think it could get really bad, really fast.

Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17d

And I had to go searching through the site to find that panel (can't see "mentions" w/o paying). So the point is to get people to recognize their own title and just click "yes that's me". Which then generates false associations, and the AI bots are going to use those to make more nonsense.

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17d

I deleted all my pdf's from the site yesterday, but left up my CV. Best I can figure is that the AI bots pulled the paper from my CV, and matched the SCSC 2024 conference part with this other user's post about her panel.

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17d

Not even a week after academia.edu's new TOS claiming the right to use all content to create AI slop (negating the former opt-out), they "cite" me on an SCSC panel w/ which I had nothing to do. My paper existed. The panel existed. The panel organizer did not mention me.

Account deleted.

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 18d

lemme find my compass...

Nah, northwest. Delftish

Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 18d

I saw a small rat in the park today. Or a very large mouse. Probably a rat.

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Axel Gelfert @agelfert.bsky.social · 19d

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

Screenshot of account deletion process on academia.edu

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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 18d

Thought you were exaggerating but just looked at new TOS (Sept. 16). Holy crap.

"you hereby grant to Academia.edu a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable license to exercise any and all rights under copyright, in any medium.. and the use of AI to generate adaptations .

Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 18d

I hope it's a rabbit!

Might be rats though.

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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18d

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1

Of all published articles, the following were the most read.

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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