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TomSQC
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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate.
Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est.
'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie'
(Mountain Laurel by Donal)
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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · Nov 11
As I would ever be.
(Le Liseur, Odilon Redon, 1892)
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avecsesdoigts.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Sad news. Bellos was not only a major translator he wrote a wonderful book defending the art and act of translation, rebutting (eloquently) glib deriding. (Poetry is what is lost in translation. The translator is a traitor. Etc.)
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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cezanne.bsky.social
Ile de France Landscape, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12233
Ile de France Landscape
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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pjrobichaud.bsky.social
The original cover of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘Wind in the Willows’ (1908), designed by W. Graham Robertson. Robertson knew Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent, who painted his portrait twice. Peter Hunt’s research suggests Robertson shared a house with Kenneth Grahame at the time.
Mole and Water Rat bow before the Piper.
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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edithmayhall.bsky.social
On world drum day, here are two lovely ancient ladies banging a tympanon (frame-drum).
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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ruizvidal7.bsky.social
Françoise Sagan
© Bert Hardy
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Moon Meadow, Josie Wren.
A painting titled Moon Meadow by artist Josie Wren; a large, personified moon with a sleeping face hovering above a dense meadow of foliage. The full moon is set in the night sky dotted with small stars. The moon has closed eyes and rosy cheeks. The lower two-thirds of the image are filled with tall, dark green and yellowish-green grass and ferns. Several small, white, moth-like butterflies or flowers are scattered throughout the lower part of the meadow.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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ginadalfonzo.bsky.social
Happy 125th birthday to Aaron Copland! 🎉🎶🎂 #BOTD
dean.bsky.social Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2d
Aaron Copland & Oscar Levant laugh it up at a Leonard Bernstein party, photographed by Stanley Kubrick in 1949 for Look magazine

I adore this shot!
The two crack up at something Oscar has just said.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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cezanne.bsky.social
Pool and Lane of Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12247
Pool and Lane of Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
Hare - #Roman

Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.

#FindsFriday
A tiny metal hare.
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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gdibondone.bsky.social
The Marriage of the Virgin https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/the-marriage-of-the-virgin
“The Marriage of the Virgin," attributed to the collection of Giotto di Bondone, depicts the poignant moment of the ceremonial marriage of Mary and Joseph. Giotto, renowned for his groundbreaking use of naturalism and emotional expression, artfully portrays the figures with a sense of depth and realism that marked a departure from the medieval Byzantine style.
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bennevis.bsky.social
#OTD in 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson was born.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

"Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness"

lithub.com/robert-louis...

Stevenson at @gutenberg.org

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

Listen at librivox.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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asls.org.uk
“Among the writers I have always read and, willy-nilly, have taken as a model is R. L. Stevenson”
—Italo Calvino

The Only Art is to Omit
Robert Louis Stevenson special issue (2012)
#RLSDay
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/edit...
The Only Art is to Omit - The Bottle Imp
In this issue of The Bottle Imp, we celebrate the work—the art—of Robert Louis Stevenson. Why such focus on a single writer? Of course, we owe our very name to one of Stevenson’s South Sea stories, so...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
"There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps..."

Happy birthday to local lad, & one of our favourite storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson (portrait by Nerli, in the National Galleries of Scotland collection)

#books #livres #RobertLouisStevenson #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Nerli's 1892 portrait painting of Robert Louis Stevenson, relaxed, in open necked shirt, gazing at the viewer
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Ready to make beautiful harmony together, and she's going to call the tune. Dog waiting patiently on chair for music to begin, because it's painted by Jacob Ochtervelt. It's his doggy day.
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
I found this Burns & Oates beauty at Powell’s Chicago yesterday.
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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henrimatisse.bsky.social
Anemone and Mirror, 1920
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16490
Anemone and Mirror
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Book Cover of the Day:
Les chauves-souris, clairs-obscurs, Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac, 1892. The cover features a repeating pattern of dark bats and small stars on a light, textured background. This central design is framed by a decorative border of intertwining vines with leaves and purple flowers.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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vangogh.bsky.social
Sower with Setting Sun - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14415
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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ahistoryinart.bsky.social
Portrait of Madame Maillol,' (1895)
was painted in the second part of Aristide Malliol's career. His painting style altered after viewing Paul Gauguin's work at an exhibition in the Café Volpini in 1889; after Gauguin left for Tahiti, Maillol turned to sculpture.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
For #MosaicMonday a charming duck.
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD

📷 me

On display at Museum am Dom, Trier

🏺 #archaeology
A mosaic depicting a duck
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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metmedieval.bsky.social
Jug https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475754
Rogers Fund, 1925
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
My mantra:

“If you can’t pray, at least say your prayers.” George Bernanos
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
In pictures: autumn colours in Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In pictures: Autumn colours in Scotland
BBC Weather Watchers have been capturing vibrant scenes across the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
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
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM