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Allison MacDuffee

@studiousgal.bsky.social

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Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Usually teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · Jul 2

For anyone who needs this today. Beau and the laundry bag. ❤️

Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 54m

A great 10-minute read.

Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 4h

A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich is a history book for all ages that we’re really proud to have published.
This extract only takes a few minutes to read & could be your first step to a lifelong love of history!
yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-his...
#take10toread @literacy-trust.bsky.social

Take 10 to Read - A Little History of the World - Yale University Press London

We're sharing the introduction and some final paragraphs from A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich. An extract from A Little History of the World, by E. H. Gombrich.

yalebooks.co.uk

Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 1h

Book cover, "Champlain's Dream," by David Hackett Fischer, shows a Vermeer painting of a man in a blue and red robe, holding compass dividers and looking towards a window.

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 3h

Morning, Autumn Sunlight, Eragny
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16896

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 2h

An amazing place that too many people don't know about!

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday I took my students on a field trip to the mothership: the Thomas Fisher rare book library at U of T (the head of Roberts’ brutalist peacock). Cool open to the public display drawing from collection. Atwood’s original Handmaid’s draft et al.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 1h

It definitely saves on lipstick.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 17h

Edwin Henry Landseer, A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society, 1838
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1111834

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17h

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.

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Rex The TV Terrier ™ And Spike! @rexthetvterrier.org · 17h

What a difference a few days make! From the 80s to the 50s. It feels like a new season now
#Spike #Autumn #Chilly #Thursday #Dogsofbluesky

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 16h

Toronto.

K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 17h

Hands down, the best entrance of the St Joseph’s Health Centre complex.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20h

Splendid triptych for the cathedral in Moulins, 1498, by Jean Hey. Also known (because of this work) as the Master of Moulins. Today is his day.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 18h

The pillar at Seven Dials, #London
elevation of a Doric pillar on a pedestal, with pinnacle at the top surrounded by sundials

Drawn by Edward Pierce II
1693-1694

(British Museum)

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nivaagaards Malerisamling announced its acquisition of 'Susanna and the Elders' (1644-48), by #ArtemisiaGentileschi. The museum purchased the painting with support from the Ny Carlsbergfondet and Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

#womenartists #Artemisia #artherstory

A photo of a painting depicting the biblical story Susannah & the Elders. A young woman, nude other than a draped clot over her lap, sits on a bench; looming over her from behind her are two fully dressed older men. The painting has a gold frame - at the right and left edges the viewer sees the gloved hands of museum staffers apparently mounting it on a wall.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21h

Margaret of Austria. When older, she governed the Netherlands for many years, and was also a great collector and patron. Here portrayed at age 10 in 1490 by Jean Hey, whose day is today.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 23h

Gorgeous 14th century ogee arched doorway, with elaborate finial 😍, set in roughly built walls covered with lime render (now very patchy, but once fully coated!) 🤩
St. Mary’s Church, Barton Bendish, Norfolk.

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 1d

Neaufles Sant Martin, near Gisors
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16272

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Gustave Courbet @gcourbet.bsky.social · 1d

After Dinner at Ornans https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-courbet/after-dinner-at-ornans-1849

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Chancellor Nicolas Rolin (and his little dog, too) attending the Nativity. As painted by Jean Hey, whose day is today.

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paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 4d

“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what colour they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less a bad shake. I thought I had the instinct toward championing the cause.” - Gordon Parks

A Dene woman kneels, looking down on a sleeping infant, inside a canvas tent. Photographed by Gordon Parks, outside of Yelllowknife, NWT, in 1945.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 1d

TIL something new.

paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 2d

Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was