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Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑

'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣

(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hello lots of lovely new BlueSky followers! 👋 Isn't it nice over here!

This festive season 🎄, give the gift of bums 😁👍🏛️🍑🎁

There's our #MuseumBums book! Our 2025 calendar! And our notecards!

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An open page of a book showing two different artworks with bums in The chapter title page of a book showing a large bright image with bums, and the start of a chapter of text A different double page spread showing sculpture and medieval painting, both with bums in
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Sometimes, when Matthew wasn't concentrating, his ear would start floating away 👍🏛️🍑👂🏻 #MuseumBums

Henry Fuselli's "Seated Male Nude: Anatomical Study (with ear detail)", c1770, from the @vamuseum.bsky.social 😁
An Anatomical sketch of a seated figure, above their head is a second attempt at getting ears right, but it looks like a little ear-shaped fairy floating above their shoulder
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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One of our fav chapters in " #MuseumBums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art" lets you wander museums thinking "that vase is a bum, that chair is a bum, those peaches are *undeniably* bums!" Suddenly you're surrounded! 👍🏛️🍑

Dish with fencai peaches, 1723, Jiangxi Province, now @britishmuseum.bsky.social
A photo of a dish with peaches on it in a museum display cabinet, and a book open to the chapter "When is a bum not a bum?" in the foreground A close up of the peach decoration on the dish, showing how bum-like they are
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A river god with flowing robes becoming flowing water. This meticulous detail from the pediment would only ever have been known by the gods if the Parthenon in Athens had stayed intact. Now even mortals can see it at @britishmuseum.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A photo of a statue of a prone figure with flowing robes
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The master sculptor, Antonio Canova was so genius, he picked out marble for his works that was 2026's Pantone #ColourofTheYear, hundreds of years in advance! Bravissimo! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Here's his "Cupid and Psyche" from @museelouvre.bsky.social, 1787, and Pantone's "Cloud Dancer" colour 🤍
A screenshot of Pantone's marble-hued colour of the year
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Still not got a clue what to get for your Secret Santa? Does your colleague have a bum and live within 100 miles of a museum? Have we got the perfect solution for you! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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An open copy of Museum Bums showing an interesting range of bums from museums An open copy of Museum Bums showing an interesting range of bums from museums
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Pole dancing was a lot trickier back in the day 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"A Youth at a Stream", 1844, by John Henry Foley, from @metmuseum.org
A bronze statuette of a figure holding onto a tall tree trunk as they dip their toe in a stream
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Aaaaaaah!! Aaaaaaaah!!! There's a human on me!! Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off! It's in my haaaaaaaair! Aaaaaaaaah!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Part of "Are you a living thing that is dying...?", by Emma Talbot, currently at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social 😁
A painting on fabric showing a figure lying on the back of a brightly coloured moth
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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All the best Museum shops stock our Museum Bums giftcards 👍🏛️🍑💌 shop.ashmolean.org/products/mus... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Send them to your lovers, your haters, your lawyers, your horticulturalists, your lemurs, your hedgehogs... Or just your mates, we're not judging 🧐 #MuseumBums
A screenshot of a museum gift shop website showing our gift cards in stock
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Bum Bum Bum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Three Aphrodites in a row from @ArchMuseumofThessaloniki

Thanks @poisonchallis.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A photo showing three stone statues in glass cases, all depicting Aphrodite, from behind
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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You know you've booked a classy resort when the seagulls are asking for a wine-pairing for the pomme frites 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Hebe with Jupiter in the guise of an eagle", 1820, by Gustav-Adolphe Diez, from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
A painting showing Hebe holding up a gold goblet and eagle Jupiter swooping down for a drink, like how seagulls steal your chips
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Black Friday Weekend Deal! Buy our book from an indy bookstore and get a free warm fuzzy feeling for being a good person with every purchase 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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A pile of Museum Bums books
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The shopping list got lost hours ago, you can only find the brandy kind of butter, you've given up on gifts for unliked relatives, *but* you managed to win a garland tug of war at the checkouts! 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums #BlackFriday

From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
A classical battle scene writ in marble relief, with lots of chaos and swords and horses
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
A statue of a figure getting ready to throw a ball, but it's snowing so it looks like a snowball. They're positioned facing down an avenue of trees and in the distance are three visible pedestrians, and a car
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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We've had a few monochrome sketches in a row, so here's some bright, colourful, camp dopamine hits from the film "Pink Narcissus", by James Bidgood, 1963, screened at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in March 2025 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A pink and purple sparkly background with a nude figure in front, shot at a low angle so their bum is the main focus A photo of a figure in a tight vest and trousers standing in front of 6 ornate mirrors all reflecting them at different angles
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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It took an embarrassingly long time for the lost friends to realise all three were looking at different maps 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
A pencil sketch showing three figures all sat or laid down looking at folded pages
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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After about eight mythical beasts and forces of nature, the gods started losing inspiration for Hercules' trials...

"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A sketch in pencil on paper of a figure wearing only a cape bracing against a tall rock
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This painting thinks classical statues should be covered up! It's immoral!!! 🤣
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
A statue in a gallery with a painting of a horrified figure in the background
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Fed up with the wet cold dark already? Get yourself a copy of "Museum Bums" and dive into our Beach Bums chapter for an escape to the height of summer (and remember your suncream!) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
A painting of people playing at the beach in various states of dress
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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John Singer Sargent met his muse, Thomas McKellar when TM was working as a hotel elevator operator. TM became "The Boston Apollo", posing for many of JSS' classical characters 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is JSS' Study for Eros and Psyche for the Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916–1921 😁
A sketch showing the feet to shoulders of a nude figure, but feet in the air as if the figure is doing a handstand
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Hans Borrebach was a Dutch comics artist and advertising illustrator, with works in the Rotterdam City Archives, Anne Frank House, and the Rijksmuseum
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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One of our favourite #MuseumBums events: facilitating themed life drawing classes at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social in Liverpool, with the gorgeous @kiwiethebuffetslayer model 😁👍🏛️🍑🎨

(If you're a museum and looking for events in 2026, get in touch 😁👍)
An artist sits cross-legged with a sketchbook on their lap, adding detail to a sketch of a bum-focused life drawing pose
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Here's a tiny little blue guy with their bum out for you 💙
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"One figure of a male", c305 BCE, from @brooklynmuseum.org from their "Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art" (which feels like a very broad category)
A blue-glazed ceramic little figure of a person, leaning their head on their left hand and their elbow on a surface, their right elbow leaning on their raised knee (and their bum out)
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Oooh, you can practically hear the drums, feel the heat, hear the clucking and neighing 😁🥵🥰
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Kerry James Marshall's "Six for One", 2024, as part of "Everyday Life as Epic History" exhibition at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social

Thanks @windowsausage for sharing 😁
A painting showing a dynamic view. On the left a group dance with drummers in a circle. On the right a horse is shod under a pink and orange umbrella. In the background, a cohort of chickens and a cockerel sit on a thatched roof
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Last Friday, Miles Greenberg performed their epic durational artwork "The Flaying of Marsyas", at @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social in Holland from 11am-6pm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)
Miles Greenberg stands on a platform with their arms tied above their head to a pole. Their body is painted black, with bits of decoration. Viewers stand around the performance
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Could the yellow gentleman please take their thigh off my shoulder? I'm getting cramp 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Contain" by Fred Hatt, 2011, exhibited at Artspace 109 in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013

Thanks @neilfleischer.bsky.social (the model!) for sharing 😁
An artwork showing lots of overlapping figures in different poses and rendered in different colours
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM