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🧑‍🎨 "The young Sofonisba created an impressive array of high-quality portraits, many of which her ambitious father sent as gifts to the great and the good in order to establish her artistic reputation."

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🗃️ #arthistory #womenartists #skystorians
Self-protrait by Sofonisba, c. 1560,Musée Condé, Chantilly
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⚛️ 🎨"There are many individuals out there today emphatically demonstrating the falseness of the so-called “art-science” divide on a daily basis. We just have to know where to look.”

🗃️ #arthistory #academia #skystorians #Edusky 🧪 #SciComm #science #art

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The False Divide - Part 2
Still inappropriate
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November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Read an essay on how both the Louvre & National Gallery are missing the technical boat by filmmaker Howard Burton who creates art films that go beyond what's expected.

🏛️ Yes, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times in #museums

▶️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

🗃️ #arthistory
Card with a quote from an essay called A Tale of Two Cities
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Read an essay on how both the Louvre & National Gallery are missing the technical boat by filmmaker Howard Burton who creates art films that go beyond what's expected.

🏛️ Yes, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times in #museums

▶️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

🗃️ #arthistory
Card with a quote from an essay called A Tale of Two Cities
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Question to @bsky.app - would it be possible to make an adjustment so that users can change the country in the trending section?

The USA is not relevant to all of us, especially here in Europe. Merci!

@support.bsky.team #bluesky
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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For #tilesontuesday an optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. OPA = Opera del Duomo, founded in 1296 in Fl. to oversee the construction of the new Cathedral & its bell tower.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
a stunning optical illusion of perspective on the marble floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Detail of the the optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It shows the letters OPA in the middle which stands for Opera Del Duomo.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🏛️ "Why is that, in 2025, so many world-renowned museums and art galleries have no clear sense of how to harness the most basic aspects of digital media to tell their impressively compelling stories?"

🗃️ #arthistory #museums #skystorians #academia

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A Tale of Two Cities
How both the Louvre and the National Gallery are missing the technical boat
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November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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For #mosaicmonday stunning details of the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral.

🎬 We'll be filming there in early 2026 for an upcoming film about its remarkable artworks & architecture.

(Photos by C. Pradel)

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky 🏺 #archaeology
Details of the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral. Detail showing Gabriel in the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral. Detail of an eye in the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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🏛️ "Why is that, in 2025, so many world-renowned museums and art galleries have no clear sense of how to harness the most basic aspects of digital media to tell their impressively compelling stories?"

🗃️ #arthistory #museums #skystorians #academia

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A Tale of Two Cities
How both the Louvre and the National Gallery are missing the technical boat
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November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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A great initiative by @museodelprado.es to showcase artworks that accompany people in their daily life. #PradoCotidiano

Do you have a copy of a famous artwork in your house, workplace or café❓

🗃️ #arthistory #art #museums 🏛️
museodelprado.es Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es · 4d
El Museo del Prado pone en marcha el #PradoCotidiano, una iniciativa participativa para celebrar su aniversario www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...
Taberna del Tito Aguacate en Tegucigalpa, Honduras
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog -

Sofonisba’s Impact
Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
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Sofonisba's Impact
Howard Burton discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian women artists, including her sisters.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#AllMetalMonday 🏺
Quack!
A bronze duck w flat body decorated in relief, long neck, open beak and sturdy legs.
Plus second duck w 2 little ones on its back.
From C6 BC hoard found in Ortanova near Foggia in Puglia, representing material culture of indigenous Daunian people.
MArTA Taranto
Two larger ducks each standing on a square block with open beaks and bulging eyes. On lower plinth the duck can be seen to have raised lines on the wings folded over its back. The upper duck has two ducklings on its back.
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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♥️ Madonna of the Magnificat by Botticelli, 1480 - 1481.

Such a beautiful detail of the Christ baby and the Madonna holding a pomegranate with the baby's pinkie tenderly on the Madonna's index.

💮 The pomegranate being a symbol of resurrection & life everlasting.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians
Detail of Madonna of the Magnificat by Botticelli, 1480 - 1481, showing the hands of the Madonna and the Chris child holding a pomegranate.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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For #caturday a representation of Fortitude in the Jurisprudence fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura.

🦁 💯 Note the lion she is patting & the lion boots (!) 👢

🎬 Watch Raphael: A Portrait, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #catsofbluesky #cats
A representation of helmeted Fortitude in the Jurisprudence fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura. There are also 3 little angels visible.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Interesting exhibition on Renaissance enamels. 👇

🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?

#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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TGIF! Watch Raphael: A Portrait, Part 1-3 now on Behind The Lens!

✨ 🔭 Raphael's ceiling fresco contains a stellar configuration seen shortly after Julius’ papal coronation in the fall of 1503.

🎬 Watch here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

#frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art
The ceiling fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura by Raphael bridging poetry and philosophy is a depiction of Urania, the Muse of Astronomy—itself subtly containing a particular stellar configuration that could be seen shortly after Julius’ papal coronation in the fall of 1503.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🎧 Listen to a wide-ranging conversation w/ curator Matthias Wivel about curating international exhibitions at The National Gallery London, the power of art & his passion for comics and hip-hop 🧢.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #comics #webcomic #hiphop #skystorians

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Art, Irrepressible
Titian, Comics & Hip-Hop
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November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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For #adoorablethursday look inside the Chapelle de St. Marine which is situated in its tiny harbour on the river Odet which runs into the Atlantic nearby.

⛵Note the ex-voto boats hanging from the ceiling & their shadows through the correct placing of the lights 🔦

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #France
The inside of the Chapelle de St. Marine which is situated in its tiny harbour on the river Odet which runs into the Atlantic nearby. The church has a strong maritime motive and one can see 2 boats hanging from the ceiling and their shadows.
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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For #adoorablethursday read this essay about the doors of all doors and their inspirations.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺
ideasroadshow.bsky.social Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 8d
🗝️ Exquisite details of the Esau & Jacob panel of The Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti.

🔎 Note the ‘self-portrait’ sculpture of Ghiberti on the right bottom corner.

👁️ Read the story behind the story: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #Italy #Renaissance
Details of the Esau and Jacob panel of The Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti which has relief sculptures showing the story about Esau and Jacob throughout the panel.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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#ReliefWednesday Competition pieces by Ghiberti (l) & Brunelleschi (r) (c. 1402) of the scene from the Book of Genesis, where God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to kill Isaac (note the angel who saved the day).

👀 Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...

🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology
Competition pieces by Ghiberti (l) & Brunelleschi (r) (c. 1402)giving their versions of the dramatic scene from the Book of Genesis, where God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to kill Isaac, only sending an angel to stop him at the last moment.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Floor tiles
Duomo di Siena, Italy

The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West.

Very Escher like.

#TilesOnTuesday
Floor tiles which appears as blocks. Floor tiles which appears as blocks. Floor tiles which appears as blocks. Floor tiles which appears as blocks.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🏰 RAPHAEL'S WORLD: Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474). The Ducal Palace at Urbino was a hub of artists, playwrights & poets, incl. Raphael's father Giovanni Santi.

More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

🗃️ #arthistory
Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474)
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🏰 RAPHAEL'S WORLD: Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474). The Ducal Palace at Urbino was a hub of artists, playwrights & poets, incl. Raphael's father Giovanni Santi.

More here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-...

🗃️ #arthistory
Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro & his spouse Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (c. 1474)
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear."

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum

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Identity Crisis
What's in a name?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🖌️ A Brush with Artists: Dürer travelled to Venice in 1505 to broaden his horizon & to learn about the secrets of Southern art. The arrival of so eminent a competitor was not altogether welcome to the minor Venetian artists and Dürer wrote to a friend:

🗃️ #arthistory #art #academia #art #Italy
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear."

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum

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Identity Crisis
What's in a name?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM