Malcolm Stoneman
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
Interests - Walking, Cycling, Travel, History, Nature. Retired Head of Humanities, European. 🇪🇺
#ArtsandCrafts carved friezes -
Frank Dickinson. Early 20th Century
🦉 🐁 🐿️ 🐇
Little Holland House, Carshalton Beeches, #London
In the true spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement - the whole house designed, constructed & furnished by Frank & Florence Dickinson.
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
Frank Dickinson. Early 20th Century
🦉 🐁 🐿️ 🐇
Little Holland House, Carshalton Beeches, #London
In the true spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement - the whole house designed, constructed & furnished by Frank & Florence Dickinson.
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#ArtsandCrafts carved friezes -
Frank Dickinson. Early 20th Century
🦉 🐁 🐿️ 🐇
Little Holland House, Carshalton Beeches, #London
In the true spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement - the whole house designed, constructed & furnished by Frank & Florence Dickinson.
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
Frank Dickinson. Early 20th Century
🦉 🐁 🐿️ 🐇
Little Holland House, Carshalton Beeches, #London
In the true spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement - the whole house designed, constructed & furnished by Frank & Florence Dickinson.
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Floor tiles
Duomo di Siena, Italy
The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West.
Very Escher like.
#TilesOnTuesday
Duomo di Siena, Italy
The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West.
Very Escher like.
#TilesOnTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Floor tiles
Duomo di Siena, Italy
The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West.
Very Escher like.
#TilesOnTuesday
Duomo di Siena, Italy
The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West.
Very Escher like.
#TilesOnTuesday
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
On this #MosaicMonday, the rays of green and gold Venetian glass that were being inlaid in 2005 in the vaults of the Sagrada Família of Barcelona – now hovering 40 metres over the visitors to the basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
On this #MosaicMonday, the rays of green and gold Venetian glass that were being inlaid in 2005 in the vaults of the Sagrada Família of Barcelona – now hovering 40 metres over the visitors to the basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí.
Sutton Heritage Mosaic,
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Sutton Heritage Mosaic,
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
Sagrada Família, #Barcelona.
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece.
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday #SundayStonework
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece.
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday #SundayStonework
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sagrada Família, #Barcelona.
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece.
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday #SundayStonework
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece.
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday #SundayStonework
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Church of St Mary, #Ware #Hertfordshire
St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window
#ChristopherWhall - 1908
“Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” -
#Pevsner guidebook
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window
#ChristopherWhall - 1908
“Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” -
#Pevsner guidebook
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Church of St Mary, #Ware #Hertfordshire
St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window
#ChristopherWhall - 1908
“Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” -
#Pevsner guidebook
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window
#ChristopherWhall - 1908
“Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” -
#Pevsner guidebook
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
“The Sower”
#VincentvanGogh - 1888
“Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery, #London - 2024
Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower.
The choice of colour, such as the mauve field.
Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich
#Art #Impressionism
#VincentvanGogh - 1888
“Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery, #London - 2024
Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower.
The choice of colour, such as the mauve field.
Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich
#Art #Impressionism
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“The Sower”
#VincentvanGogh - 1888
“Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery, #London - 2024
Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower.
The choice of colour, such as the mauve field.
Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich
#Art #Impressionism
#VincentvanGogh - 1888
“Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery, #London - 2024
Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower.
The choice of colour, such as the mauve field.
Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich
#Art #Impressionism
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
Firecrest, one of three at Slapton Ley NNR yesterday. All were feeding actively, as was this Chiffchaff in the willows finding insects under the leaves.
On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.
On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Firecrest, one of three at Slapton Ley NNR yesterday. All were feeding actively, as was this Chiffchaff in the willows finding insects under the leaves.
On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.
On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“The Trumpington Cross”
Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD
The burial of a female teenager.
1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011.
Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
#medieval #archaeology
Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD
The burial of a female teenager.
1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011.
Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
#medieval #archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“The Trumpington Cross”
Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD
The burial of a female teenager.
1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011.
Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
#medieval #archaeology
Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD
The burial of a female teenager.
1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011.
Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
#medieval #archaeology
Baptismal font - 1502
The Baptistery of the Duomo,
Volterrra, Italy
Octagonal font -
Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino".
Detail - The baptism of Christ
#FontsOnFriday
The Baptistery of the Duomo,
Volterrra, Italy
Octagonal font -
Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino".
Detail - The baptism of Christ
#FontsOnFriday
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Baptismal font - 1502
The Baptistery of the Duomo,
Volterrra, Italy
Octagonal font -
Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino".
Detail - The baptism of Christ
#FontsOnFriday
The Baptistery of the Duomo,
Volterrra, Italy
Octagonal font -
Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino".
Detail - The baptism of Christ
#FontsOnFriday
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite?
From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me
#Archaeology
“All your ducks in a row” - 🦆 🦆 🦆
Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula
8th-7th Century BCE
Museo Archeologico Nazionale,
Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena
Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula
8th-7th Century BCE
Museo Archeologico Nazionale,
Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“All your ducks in a row” - 🦆 🦆 🦆
Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula
8th-7th Century BCE
Museo Archeologico Nazionale,
Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena
Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula
8th-7th Century BCE
Museo Archeologico Nazionale,
Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Saint Barbara
#TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510
Linden wood, originally painted.
“The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption
Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
#TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510
Linden wood, originally painted.
“The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption
Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Saint Barbara
#TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510
Linden wood, originally painted.
“The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption
Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
#TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510
Linden wood, originally painted.
“The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption
Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
🚶🏻♂️ River Great Ouse Relief Channel.
#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds.
These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky.
#FenEdge #TheFens #Cloudscape
#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds.
These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky.
#FenEdge #TheFens #Cloudscape
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚶🏻♂️ River Great Ouse Relief Channel.
#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds.
These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky.
#FenEdge #TheFens #Cloudscape
#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds.
These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky.
#FenEdge #TheFens #Cloudscape
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM