Ariela Algaze
@arielaalgaze.bsky.social
Art historian on wheels ♿️. Late medieval Italian art, confraternities, and religious theater. PhDing at Johns Hopkins (Prev: NYU IFA, Stanford).
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Art historians for over a century: Renaissance artists had workshops, here's a mountain of scholarship on the particularities of workshop practice and the division of labor
Credulous journalists picking up on PR: AI HAS PROVED SOMETHING OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE
www.independent.co.uk/tech/joseph-...
Credulous journalists picking up on PR: AI HAS PROVED SOMETHING OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE
www.independent.co.uk/tech/joseph-...
Raphael artwork ‘features a face he did not paint’
AI analysis suggests the face of Joseph in the Madonna della Rosa may have been created by someone else.
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Art historians for over a century: Renaissance artists had workshops, here's a mountain of scholarship on the particularities of workshop practice and the division of labor
Credulous journalists picking up on PR: AI HAS PROVED SOMETHING OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE
www.independent.co.uk/tech/joseph-...
Credulous journalists picking up on PR: AI HAS PROVED SOMETHING OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE
www.independent.co.uk/tech/joseph-...
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From Keith Haring's journals
January 1, 2024 at 6:07 PM
From Keith Haring's journals
God I wish Italy would do the same (instead, in recent years they've only made it harder to reproduce images).
🚨Must-read clickthrough for medievalists working on UK-held materials🚨
Appeals court appears to have upheld that non-derivative images of out-of-copyright works cannot be held in copyright = those repro fees must go.
(Esp of note given BL image dept's crisis.)
Appeals court appears to have upheld that non-derivative images of out-of-copyright works cannot be held in copyright = those repro fees must go.
(Esp of note given BL image dept's crisis.)
UK Reproduction fees 📜 www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/29/c...
December 31, 2023 at 3:02 PM
God I wish Italy would do the same (instead, in recent years they've only made it harder to reproduce images).
This looks fab!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Hello Bluesky! Happy for my first post to be that my book will be out next month, if you are interested in manuscripts, scribes, liturgy, and transmission and editing of texts.
Hello Bluesky! Happy for my first post to be that my book will be out next month, if you are interested in manuscripts, scribes, liturgy, and transmission and editing of texts.
Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
www.cambridge.org
December 26, 2023 at 9:07 PM
This looks fab!
Of course he has a knife! We all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians.
Time to watch the best Christmas movie ever m.imdb.com/title/tt0063...
December 26, 2023 at 4:24 AM
Of course he has a knife! We all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians.
Medievalists have been talking about this for a while, and I’m glad the mainstream press is finally covering it:
The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library 📜 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library
The library has been incapacitated since October, and the effects have spread beyond researchers and book lovers.
www.newyorker.com
December 26, 2023 at 3:52 AM
Medievalists have been talking about this for a while, and I’m glad the mainstream press is finally covering it:
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You: “medieval chronicles are so random. They’re all ‘some church tower fell down and then a local lady had quadruplets.’”
Me:
Me:
December 24, 2023 at 6:35 PM
You: “medieval chronicles are so random. They’re all ‘some church tower fell down and then a local lady had quadruplets.’”
Me:
Me:
I really do HATE to say it, but I think Bradley Cooper leading the London Phil in Maestro might actually be my favorite recording of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. I've been listening to a number of recordings since (Solti, Bernstein, Kaplan, and Rattle thus far) and I gotta say, Cooper wins.
December 21, 2023 at 6:13 PM
I really do HATE to say it, but I think Bradley Cooper leading the London Phil in Maestro might actually be my favorite recording of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. I've been listening to a number of recordings since (Solti, Bernstein, Kaplan, and Rattle thus far) and I gotta say, Cooper wins.
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This is yet another example of how everyone in an extremely dangerous and chaotic situation is expected to follow a strict protocol flawlessly, except for the police, of whom literally nothing is expected or required.
This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
December 5, 2023 at 3:28 PM
This is yet another example of how everyone in an extremely dangerous and chaotic situation is expected to follow a strict protocol flawlessly, except for the police, of whom literally nothing is expected or required.
My playlist for my paper on medieval flagellants is basically just Tom Lehrer's Masochism Tango on repeat.
"I ache for the touch of your lips, dear
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..."
"I ache for the touch of your lips, dear
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..."
December 5, 2023 at 3:54 PM
My playlist for my paper on medieval flagellants is basically just Tom Lehrer's Masochism Tango on repeat.
"I ache for the touch of your lips, dear
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..."
"I ache for the touch of your lips, dear
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..."
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Obligatory annual repost of the story of when Mughal miniaturists illustrated turkeys: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
November 23, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Obligatory annual repost of the story of when Mughal miniaturists illustrated turkeys: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Love it (read: hate it) when Worldcat says that the nearest library with a copy of the book I need to reference is an ocean away in Turin.
November 22, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Love it (read: hate it) when Worldcat says that the nearest library with a copy of the book I need to reference is an ocean away in Turin.
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As of this week, H-Sicily -- a new H-Net network dedicated to Southern Italian premodernity -- is now live: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
Join me, @lauraingalli.bsky.social + Anne Maltempi, Simona Inserra, and Karla Mallette on H-Sicily. 🇮🇹
Join me, @lauraingalli.bsky.social + Anne Maltempi, Simona Inserra, and Karla Mallette on H-Sicily. 🇮🇹
November 20, 2023 at 1:04 AM
As of this week, H-Sicily -- a new H-Net network dedicated to Southern Italian premodernity -- is now live: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
Join me, @lauraingalli.bsky.social + Anne Maltempi, Simona Inserra, and Karla Mallette on H-Sicily. 🇮🇹
Join me, @lauraingalli.bsky.social + Anne Maltempi, Simona Inserra, and Karla Mallette on H-Sicily. 🇮🇹
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The exposed structure of an early modern book @stanford Special Collections.
November 16, 2023 at 2:38 PM
The exposed structure of an early modern book @stanford Special Collections.
Watching the Mysteries of the Faith docuseries on Netflix and realizing by the 15th minute that you know one of the medieval art historians being interviewed and have read one of the others.
November 16, 2023 at 9:33 PM
Watching the Mysteries of the Faith docuseries on Netflix and realizing by the 15th minute that you know one of the medieval art historians being interviewed and have read one of the others.
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Kind of amazing manicule in this treatise on logic (15th c.?). Thanks to Emily Runde for drawing my attention to it!
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November 16, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Kind of amazing manicule in this treatise on logic (15th c.?). Thanks to Emily Runde for drawing my attention to it!
X88 Ar512
X88 Ar512
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Beautiful way to repair a hole in the parchment
Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37; Psalterium; end of the 12th/first half of the 13th century; Southwestern Germany; f.19r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37; Psalterium; end of the 12th/first half of the 13th century; Southwestern Germany; f.19r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
November 11, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Beautiful way to repair a hole in the parchment
Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37; Psalterium; end of the 12th/first half of the 13th century; Southwestern Germany; f.19r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37; Psalterium; end of the 12th/first half of the 13th century; Southwestern Germany; f.19r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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Now for a history lesson in media studies. Fascinating is how the same technology persists but its use changes over time. Whereas in Roman antiquity wax tablets could be used for legal docs & infosec because of how well they show when a text has been erased (see Elizabeth Meyer’s book on tabulae)…
Manuscript lesson of the day!
Wax tablets were a common medium for note-taking well into the Middle Ages. One advantage was that it only required hands for the tablet & stylus, whereas writing with a quill required a surface, quill, & ink pot. Here we see a painting showing a wax tablet in use.
Wax tablets were a common medium for note-taking well into the Middle Ages. One advantage was that it only required hands for the tablet & stylus, whereas writing with a quill required a surface, quill, & ink pot. Here we see a painting showing a wax tablet in use.
November 10, 2023 at 10:17 PM
Now for a history lesson in media studies. Fascinating is how the same technology persists but its use changes over time. Whereas in Roman antiquity wax tablets could be used for legal docs & infosec because of how well they show when a text has been erased (see Elizabeth Meyer’s book on tabulae)…
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Just in time for the class session I'm doing next week for Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East, a ketubah from Mashad (Iran), in 1894 that just arrived.
#newacquisitions 📜
#newacquisitions 📜
November 2, 2023 at 8:51 PM
Just in time for the class session I'm doing next week for Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East, a ketubah from Mashad (Iran), in 1894 that just arrived.
#newacquisitions 📜
#newacquisitions 📜
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Falling asleep and having such marvellous dreams
Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48; Dante, Divine Comedy; 1350 CE–1375 CE; Italy (?Genoa); p.1
Corpus Christi College MS 201; William Langland, Piers Plowman, B version; 1375 CE–1399 CE; England; f.1r @BDLSS
Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48; Dante, Divine Comedy; 1350 CE–1375 CE; Italy (?Genoa); p.1
Corpus Christi College MS 201; William Langland, Piers Plowman, B version; 1375 CE–1399 CE; England; f.1r @BDLSS
November 2, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Falling asleep and having such marvellous dreams
Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48; Dante, Divine Comedy; 1350 CE–1375 CE; Italy (?Genoa); p.1
Corpus Christi College MS 201; William Langland, Piers Plowman, B version; 1375 CE–1399 CE; England; f.1r @BDLSS
Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48; Dante, Divine Comedy; 1350 CE–1375 CE; Italy (?Genoa); p.1
Corpus Christi College MS 201; William Langland, Piers Plowman, B version; 1375 CE–1399 CE; England; f.1r @BDLSS
Exciting news!
The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work!
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
October 29, 2023 at 9:32 PM
Exciting news!
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I witnessed the first destruction of a Confederate statues, and wrote about why I believe many more of our monuments to hate should follow: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/o...
October 27, 2023 at 9:14 AM
I witnessed the first destruction of a Confederate statues, and wrote about why I believe many more of our monuments to hate should follow: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/o...
Me, sowing: this conference sounds fun!
Me, reaping: haha what the fuck?
Me, reaping: haha what the fuck?
I regret to inform everybody that at some point, the priority changes from "applying to a conference with a paper idea" to "having to write the paper for a conference."
October 25, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Me, sowing: this conference sounds fun!
Me, reaping: haha what the fuck?
Me, reaping: haha what the fuck?