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We’ve changed the name of our substack to 'EXPLORING ART HISTORY' to highlight our focus on the captivatingly beautiful world of art & the art of beauty from now on!

🎨 Visit here for art essays, films: ideasroadshow.substack.com

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #medievalsky #art
Collage of art images for the Exploring Art History blog.
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🪢 🔥 Did you know that the design of the Olympic cauldron is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated knots?

☕ Leonardo had a historic connection with Milan where he was in the service of Ludovico Sforza, as an engineer, architect, sculptor & painter for 20 yrs.

#olympics 🗃️ #arthistory #art
Photo of cauldron underneath an arch in Milan called the Arch of Peace. The original Leonardo designs of 6 knots no longer exist but were copied in Dürer’s woodcuts, here is one of those as an example. Can be found in the British Museum.
February 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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🎬 It’s Film Friday! In Part 4 of Botticelli’s Primavera we explore how Botticelli was a ‘visual poet’ who actively participated in the prevailing Renaissance humanist culture of his time.

Watch here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
Collage with Botticelli's Primavera in the background with images of classical poets and the part of Primavera that their poetry influenced Botticelli.
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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🎬 It’s Film Friday! In Part 4 of Botticelli’s Primavera we explore how Botticelli was a ‘visual poet’ who actively participated in the prevailing Renaissance humanist culture of his time.

Watch here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/botticelli...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
Collage with Botticelli's Primavera in the background with images of classical poets and the part of Primavera that their poetry influenced Botticelli.
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance

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Revolving doors
The oft-overlooked details of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous reliefs of the Florentine Baptistery
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February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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For #AdoorableThursday look at all the doors in this detail of one of the Maestà Predella Panels by Duccio called The Healing of the Man Born Blind.

🚪 Do you notice anything about the doors (and windows as well)❓

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky
Detail of one of the Maestà Predella Panels by Duccio showing Christ healing a blind man. In the background are house with the doors and windows left ajar.
February 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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☔ Rue de Paris, Temps de Pluie, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877.

🗃️ #arthistory #art
Rue de Paris, temps de pluie by Gustave Caillebotte showing a man and woman under an umbrella and other people walking around streets in Paris with umbrellas.
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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🦶💋 Did you know there was a devotional practice of kissing the Virgin's foot in early Sienese art?

🔎 Take a clue from the subtly protruding foot underneath the mantle of the Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285).

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in...

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky
Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285) showing the foot of the Madonna showing underneath her draped garment.
February 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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🦶💋 Did you know there was a devotional practice of kissing the Virgin's foot in early Sienese art?

🔎 Take a clue from the subtly protruding foot underneath the mantle of the Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285).

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in...

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky
Rucellai Madonna by Duccio (1285) showing the foot of the Madonna showing underneath her draped garment.
February 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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🏺 🐾 For #EpigraphyTuesday a funerary monuments for a beloved #Roman dog, Margarita (‘Pearl’), with a Tolstoyan-style eulogy by the dog herself.

#ancientblueksy #ClassicsBluesky 🗃️ #history #animals #dogs
A Roman funerary monuments for a beloved dog showing a funerary stone with text in Latin.
February 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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📀 Check out these "floating" halos in perspective in The Tribute Money by Masaccio, 1424, Brancacci Chapel.

🟡 They are pretty plain looking halos compared to the intricate halos that can be seen here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #medievalsky #Italy
Detail of The Tribute Money by Masaccio, 1424, Brancacci Chapel showing Jesus and nine of the Twelve Apostles. The Tribute Money, illustrating Matthew 17:24–27, by Masaccio.
January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Pinturicchio was an “early adopter” of fantastical images called “grotesques”, found in recently rediscovered #Roman caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s Domus Aurea.

🌕 Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺
A Roman so-called grotesque from Domus Aurea showing different people, possibly deities. A so-called grotesque with mystical figures and animals by Pinturicchio in the Picolomini Library, Siena.
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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🔎 Find out about the fascinating relationships between the vault in the Piccolomini Library and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and that of Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺

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Unlocking The Vaults
Look up
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February 2, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Pinturicchio was an “early adopter” of fantastical images called “grotesques”, found in recently rediscovered #Roman caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s Domus Aurea.

🌕 Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺
A Roman so-called grotesque from Domus Aurea showing different people, possibly deities. A so-called grotesque with mystical figures and animals by Pinturicchio in the Picolomini Library, Siena.
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Photo Cynthia Greer of 6 groundhogs photoshopped in different colours.
February 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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🔎 Find out about the fascinating relationships between the vault in the Piccolomini Library and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and that of Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺

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Unlocking The Vaults
Look up
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February 2, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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🔎 Februarius panel from the 3rd-c. mosaic of the months at El Djem, Tunisia.

It was the shortest month of the #Roman calendar from which the Julian & Gregorian February derived. The word is derived from februum, a tool used for ritual purification.

#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology #art
Februarius panel from the 3rd-century mosaic of the months showing 4 men. Photo by Ad Meskens
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🟡 For #mosaicmonday Apollo with a radiant halo in a Roman floor mosaic, late 2nd c. Tunisia.

🔆 Read an enlightening essay on halos & what a close-up look reveals, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/angelic-in...

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #archaeology #Roman
A mosaic of Apollo with a halo.
January 19, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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This one never gets old.

We all need a good laugh these days.
A cartoon in a forest shows two beavers facing each other. The beaver on the left has chewed the middle of a tree trunk into a narrow, faceted point. The beaver on the right has chewed a classical-style statue. The left beaver looks annoyed and says, “JUST STOP IT.
February 1, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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🔎 Februarius panel from the 3rd-c. mosaic of the months at El Djem, Tunisia.

It was the shortest month of the #Roman calendar from which the Julian & Gregorian February derived. The word is derived from februum, a tool used for ritual purification.

#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #archaeology #art
Februarius panel from the 3rd-century mosaic of the months showing 4 men. Photo by Ad Meskens
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🖌️ 🎨 Artist in His Studio by Rembrandt, c. 1628. An artist stands in an almost empty studio daunted by the task of creation & a huge easel blocking the door.

This tiny painting demonstrates that making art is a product of the mind as well as the hand.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #dutch #earlymodern
Artist in His Studio by Rembrandt, c. 1628. Size: 24.8 x 31.7cm A young artist stands in a nearly empty studio, brushes in hand. Rather than showing the artist in the act of creation, Rembrandt focuses on the daunting expectations of the surface to be painted. This little picture asserts that making art is as intellectual as it is technical, a product of the mind as well as the hand. The painter here is conscious of the task ahead—think about how the looming easel blocks his way to the door—and maybe even of his place within the Netherlandish artistic tradition. Museum: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🦁 Less is more in Egyptian chic! Look at the design of this large, beautifully sculpted lion who once guarded the entrance to a pyramid-age sanctuary, Egypt, Old Kingdom, ca. 2575–2450 B.C.

L. 201 cm, w. 73 cm, made of granite.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #caturday #cat #cats #design 🏺 #lion #Egypt
Picture of a sculpture of a recumbent lion made of granite. It was found in Egypt and dates from ca. 2575–2450 B.C.
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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❤️ We’re delighted that so many armchair travellers, travellers to Italy & other artistically-rich countries, art historians & students are joining our community at Exploring Art History! 🎨

Join us here: ideasroadshow.substack.com

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #medievalsky #art
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January 31, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Giuliano de' Medici by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1478/80

☠️Likely painted after Giuliano de’ Medici's murder in 1478. The downward tilt of his head, lowered eyelids, half-open window & turtledove on a dead branch can all be used to symbolize death.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #art
Giuliano de' Medici by Sandro Botticelli showing a man with black hair, a red costume with brown sleeves and a bird on a dead branch. In the background is an open window.
January 30, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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For #frescofriday an exquisite detail of The Temptations of Christ by Botticelli, 1482. 🏛️ Vatican Museum

Please join us on EXPLORING ART HISTORY for art essays, film excerpts, art conversations and more: ideasroadshow.substack.com

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #art
A detail of The Temptations of Christ, 1482, Botticelli, showing two young women and a young boy.
January 30, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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🎬 TG It’s Film Friday! Watch Part 3 of Botticelli's Primavera now on EXPLORING ART HISTORY 🎨 to find out about the overarching meaning behind this remarkable painting & the many visual clues that are hidden 🔎

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #art

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Botticelli's Primavera, Part 3
Marrying the historical context and the redating of Primavera
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January 30, 2026 at 9:13 AM