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Susan Klaiber
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Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond

American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · Sep 25
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Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)

#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings

www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...
View of book covers for two-volume set of Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod A. Marder and published by Hirmer on behalf of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Volume 1 (visible) has ink and red chalk drawing for the crowning feature of the Baldacchino in St. Peter's.
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miadecorativearts.bsky.social
Section of a frieze https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1965/
Decorative Frieze from old Farmers and Merchants Bank, Hector Minnesota; terra cotta These decorative terra-cotta tiles for the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Hector, Minnesota were designed by George Grant Elmslie in his own style of organic ornamentation, developed during twenty years as Louis Sullivan's chief draftsman. Stylized plant forms combined with geometric patterns, repeated throughout the facade, separate the brick lower level from the light stucco second story. This section was removed in 1970 when the bank was remodeled.
January 21, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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I've had enough.
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
I think I can smell him already. 😨
January 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Swiss media tracking arrival of Air Force One @zurichairport.bsky.social for #WEFDavos around 90 min from now.

God help us all. 😱

#Kloten #WEF26
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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bombaylychee.bsky.social
Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
bombaylychee.bsky.social Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 3d
Plus a phone box in colour.
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
20 Jan 1666: d. Anne of #Austria Queen consort of #France & mother of Louis XIV #otd
January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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wouterwagemakers.bsky.social
Beautiful morning in Nürnberg
View of the Nürnberg Altstadt island with medieval houses and towers, including a view of a bridge and the river View of the Nürnberg Altstadt island with medieval houses and towers, including a view of a bridge and the river (but from the other side of the island). Here the bridge has built houses over it.
January 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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macarenadlvdl.bsky.social
Tough day in Spain today.

#keepswimming
January 19, 2026 at 6:36 PM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Wonderful choice for the KHI: Prof. de Divitiis is an exceptional scholar and a lovely colleague.
khiflorenz.bsky.social Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 2d
🙌 We are pleased to welcome Professor Bianca de Divitiis of the University of Naples Federico II as new Director at the KHI and as Scientific Member of @maxplanck.de! She is starting the new department “Contexts, Communities, Connections. New Narratives in History of Art.” ➡️ t1p.de/5deac
January 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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khiflorenz.bsky.social
🙌 We are pleased to welcome Professor Bianca de Divitiis of the University of Naples Federico II as new Director at the KHI and as Scientific Member of @maxplanck.de! She is starting the new department “Contexts, Communities, Connections. New Narratives in History of Art.” ➡️ t1p.de/5deac
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Charles Moore; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial; 1958 negative, 1989 print; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Black and white photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wearing a hat, suit, and tie, being pushed against a countertop by two police officers who hold his right arm behind his back. In the foreground, we see the back of another officer. To the right of Dr. King, we see two women and a man watching the arrest.
January 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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ebwood.bsky.social
Faith Ringgold, As Free and Independent States, 2009, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Print with a decorative border of blue leafy vines. On the left side of the print, Thomas Jefferson sits at a round table with papers, quill pens, spectacles, and books laid out in front of him. He is in an interior room with green walls, large paned windows, and a grandfather clock. On the right side of the print, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits at a small, worn table on a stool, wearing a blue jumpsuit and holding his hands together in front of him as he looks down at papers with writing on the table in front of him. The grid of dark grey bars criss-crossing the grey background indicate that he is sitting inside a prison cell. Beneath the image, handwritten in pencil: "8/25" in the lower left, "As Free and Independent States" in the lower center, and "Faith Ringgold 5/4/09" in the lower right.
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Three young Swiss guys have developed a machine that automatically sorts Lego pieces by shape / size.

Not quite ready for mass production, but they already have orders.

*This* is the kind of start-up the world needs, instead of more AI. #Lego
January 19, 2026 at 5:14 AM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Great opportunity for PhD students in #premodern architectural history to work with Cammy Brothers in Lausanne. #earlymodern #architecture #arthistory
January 18, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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How Denmark can save Greenland and NATO in one fell swoop.
The LEGO White House All Gold XXXXL Super Deluxe Ultimate Edition with 100,000 pieces. THE BIGGEST SET EVER BUILT! the build golden lego set on the table in the oval office
January 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Super proud of my daughter who recently published her first scholarly article in the Zürcher Taschenbuch 2026.

"Mehr als nur Magd" is based on her B.A. thesis at #UZH looking at female servants in late medieval Zurich. 1/2 #skystorians #MedievalSky #medieval

mattenbachverlag.ch/zurcher-tasc...
Book with medium blue cover. At the upper left, the title "Zürcher Taschenbuch 2026" in white. At the lower left, the volume number "Band 146" also in white. At the lower right, in gray, a stylized version of the Zurich canton coat of arms, consisting of a lion holding a shield divided diagonally with the lower left shaded and the upper right blank.
January 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The University — Harvard University Press
A sweeping history of the buildings and materials that have shaped nine centuries of university life, from parchments and silk robes to glass atriums and sprawling parking lots.We often idealize the u...
www.hup.harvard.edu
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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art-institute.bsky.social
The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, by Michele Marieschi (Italian, 1710–1743)
1740–41

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/55621
Michele Marieschi (Italian, 1710–1743), The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, A work made of oil on canvas.
January 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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susanklaiber.bsky.social
Wow, extremely cool university cafeteria in Saarbrücken (1969).

Who knew?! #brutalism

www.moderne-regional.de/uni-mensa-al...
Uni-Mensa als Weltkulturerbe?
Die 1969 fertiggestellte betonplastische Uni-Mensa, ein kongeniales Werk des Architekten Walter Schrempf und des Bildhauers Otto Herbert Hajek, genießt zwar Denkmalschutz, wartet aber seit Jahren auf ...
www.moderne-regional.de
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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deanbaker13.bsky.social
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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bhmpi.bsky.social
📢The Department Weddigen (Art of the Modern Age in a Global Context) invites applications for Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2026/27 academic year.

📅Funding period of 3 to 12 months.
📍Fellowships are Rome-based
⏳February 28, 2026
🔗Full call: www.biblhertz.it/3766598/Pred...
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
This looks terrific! #MedievalSky #MedievalArchitecture #architecture
brepols.net Brepols @brepols.net · 5d
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
Lex Bosman

More Info: bit.ly/4qqwKTh

#Architecture #History #ArtTheory #ArtHistory #Medievalsky #MedievalArchitecture
January 16, 2026 at 9:41 AM
susanklaiber.bsky.social
Wow, extremely cool university cafeteria in Saarbrücken (1969).

Who knew?! #brutalism

www.moderne-regional.de/uni-mensa-al...
Uni-Mensa als Weltkulturerbe?
Die 1969 fertiggestellte betonplastische Uni-Mensa, ein kongeniales Werk des Architekten Walter Schrempf und des Bildhauers Otto Herbert Hajek, genießt zwar Denkmalschutz, wartet aber seit Jahren auf ...
www.moderne-regional.de
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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STIP: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

https://arthist.net/archive/51493

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Mara Freiberg Simmen. Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Rome, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026
arthist.net
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM