Russell Gant
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A bit of fun progressing, an oil painting on gesso and wood panel (part of an old chest of drawers ;-)) inspired by the Rood screen painting of St Cecilia in North Elmham church, Norfolk. A bit of medieval colour to brighten up the day. #oilpainting #notanartist #medieval #colour
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Masterful Mystery. Impressive works by the enigmatic Master I.S. one of Rembrandts mysterious and hitherto unidentified contemporaries at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden. Ageing and imperfection delicately captured. www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/mee...
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Masterful Mystery. Impressive works by the enigmatic Master I.S. one of Rembrandts mysterious and hitherto unidentified contemporaries at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden. Ageing and imperfection delicately captured. www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/mee...
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As is tradition, on Christmas eve Dutch people have placed candles on the graves of allied soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom during WW2.
Photos by Albert Hendriks.
www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60013...
Photos by Albert Hendriks.
www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60013...
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As is tradition, on Christmas eve Dutch people have placed candles on the graves of allied soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom during WW2.
Photos by Albert Hendriks.
www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60013...
Photos by Albert Hendriks.
www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60013...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This week on the podcast, we interview Andrew Graham-Dixon about Vermeer, lay into the BBC's arts coverage, and ask why royal portraits are so bad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
Waldy & Bendy | Season 5 | Episode 09: Why are royal portraits so ugly?
YouTube video by ZCZ Films
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November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This week on the podcast, we interview Andrew Graham-Dixon about Vermeer, lay into the BBC's arts coverage, and ask why royal portraits are so bad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wU...
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Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
A bit of fun progressing, an oil painting on gesso and wood panel (part of an old chest of drawers ;-)) inspired by the Rood screen painting of St Cecilia in North Elmham church, Norfolk. A bit of medieval colour to brighten up the day. #oilpainting #notanartist #medieval #colour
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A bit of fun progressing, an oil painting on gesso and wood panel (part of an old chest of drawers ;-)) inspired by the Rood screen painting of St Cecilia in North Elmham church, Norfolk. A bit of medieval colour to brighten up the day. #oilpainting #notanartist #medieval #colour
Slowly getting there ... very slowly!
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Slowly getting there ... very slowly!
Working on a study of the rood panel painting of St Cecilia from North Elmham, looking a little zombie! 😱 #medieval #painting #zombie #oilpainting
August 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Working on a study of the rood panel painting of St Cecilia from North Elmham, looking a little zombie! 😱 #medieval #painting #zombie #oilpainting
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#FolkyFriday
Cuevas de la Araña Paintings in Valencia, Spain show that man has long had a taste for honey - going to elaborate lengths to "steal" honey from the bees from early times!
Cuevas de la Araña Paintings in Valencia, Spain show that man has long had a taste for honey - going to elaborate lengths to "steal" honey from the bees from early times!
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#FolkyFriday
Cuevas de la Araña Paintings in Valencia, Spain show that man has long had a taste for honey - going to elaborate lengths to "steal" honey from the bees from early times!
Cuevas de la Araña Paintings in Valencia, Spain show that man has long had a taste for honey - going to elaborate lengths to "steal" honey from the bees from early times!
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For #EpigraphyTuesday a wooden barrel found in a well in the #Roman settlement at Aalen with the name GAIVS COTTIVS FLORENTINVS branded in, probably the merchant or owner of the barrel. Barrels were used for the transport and the storage of wine. This one...🧵1/2
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🏺 #Archaeology
August 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
For #EpigraphyTuesday a wooden barrel found in a well in the #Roman settlement at Aalen with the name GAIVS COTTIVS FLORENTINVS branded in, probably the merchant or owner of the barrel. Barrels were used for the transport and the storage of wine. This one...🧵1/2
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🏺 #Archaeology
📷 me
🏺 #Archaeology
youtu.be/7ygMbZyaYPw?... Yorkshire's "newest" scheduled monument, under threat by cairn building ...
Yorkshire's "Newest" Prehistoric Monument
YouTube video by WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd
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August 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
youtu.be/7ygMbZyaYPw?... Yorkshire's "newest" scheduled monument, under threat by cairn building ...
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I can't put into words how much I truly love these two 12th century characters.
Look kids, they're waving at us!
Centuries of time between us and the doodler vanish and I find myself waving at the screen like an eejit.
THEY ARE SO CUTE.
Source;
initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3132
I can't put into words how much I truly love these two 12th century characters.
Look kids, they're waving at us!
Centuries of time between us and the doodler vanish and I find myself waving at the screen like an eejit.
THEY ARE SO CUTE.
Source;
initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3132
May 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I can't put into words how much I truly love these two 12th century characters.
Look kids, they're waving at us!
Centuries of time between us and the doodler vanish and I find myself waving at the screen like an eejit.
THEY ARE SO CUTE.
Source;
initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3132
I can't put into words how much I truly love these two 12th century characters.
Look kids, they're waving at us!
Centuries of time between us and the doodler vanish and I find myself waving at the screen like an eejit.
THEY ARE SO CUTE.
Source;
initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3132
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An elaborately decorated early #medieval double-sided bone comb, found in a warrior's grave in Fridingen (dating early 7th century AD). To protect the delicate tines, the comb was kept in a case.
Long and well-groomed hair was a status symbol.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
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Long and well-groomed hair was a status symbol.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
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March 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
An elaborately decorated early #medieval double-sided bone comb, found in a warrior's grave in Fridingen (dating early 7th century AD). To protect the delicate tines, the comb was kept in a case.
Long and well-groomed hair was a status symbol.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
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Long and well-groomed hair was a status symbol.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
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Our newly acquired Duke Humfrey's manuscript is now LIVE on Digital Bodleian.
Explore in full at your leisure: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...
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Explore in full at your leisure: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...
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Bodleian Library MS. Duke Humfrey c. 1
View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library MS. Duke Humfrey c. 1 Old French New Testament, ‘version du xiiiᵉ siècle’
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our newly acquired Duke Humfrey's manuscript is now LIVE on Digital Bodleian.
Explore in full at your leisure: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...
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Explore in full at your leisure: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d529...
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#SarcophagusSaturday - The Pashley Sarcophagus, a sarcophagus showing the triumphal return of Dionysos from India. A Satyr carries a child behind an elephant, while two Maenads play the 'aulos' and two Satyrs sit on it. Found in Arvi (Crete), dated AD 125-150.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).
February 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#SarcophagusSaturday - The Pashley Sarcophagus, a sarcophagus showing the triumphal return of Dionysos from India. A Satyr carries a child behind an elephant, while two Maenads play the 'aulos' and two Satyrs sit on it. Found in Arvi (Crete), dated AD 125-150.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).
#Uncanny #UncannyCommunity I think there was a murderous entity in Emily's House ... the cat! Leaving presents of hamsters by the door very cat like, and a pigeon up the chimney? I think there was blood, but the cat licked it clean! 🙀
February 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#Uncanny #UncannyCommunity I think there was a murderous entity in Emily's House ... the cat! Leaving presents of hamsters by the door very cat like, and a pigeon up the chimney? I think there was blood, but the cat licked it clean! 🙀
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Oh. My. Goodness.
This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you *look* at that anvil!!! 😍
finds.org.uk/database/art...
(P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block)
#Archaeology
This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you *look* at that anvil!!! 😍
finds.org.uk/database/art...
(P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block)
#Archaeology
February 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Oh. My. Goodness.
This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you *look* at that anvil!!! 😍
finds.org.uk/database/art...
(P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block)
#Archaeology
This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you *look* at that anvil!!! 😍
finds.org.uk/database/art...
(P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block)
#Archaeology
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A combination of AI, the particle accelerator @diamondlightsource.bsky.social & colleagues from Oxford’s Classics Faculty is helping us to see the unseen inside a scroll @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A combination of AI, the particle accelerator @diamondlightsource.bsky.social & colleagues from Oxford’s Classics Faculty is helping us to see the unseen inside a scroll @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Do you believe in ghosts? 🫣
Are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic? I'm back with a new series of #Uncanny, investigating whether these haunted happenings could be more than they first appear…🕵️♂️
Watch tomorrow on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9:00pm 👻
Made by #BBCStudios Specialist Factual
Are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic? I'm back with a new series of #Uncanny, investigating whether these haunted happenings could be more than they first appear…🕵️♂️
Watch tomorrow on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9:00pm 👻
Made by #BBCStudios Specialist Factual
January 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Do you believe in ghosts? 🫣
Are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic? I'm back with a new series of #Uncanny, investigating whether these haunted happenings could be more than they first appear…🕵️♂️
Watch tomorrow on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9:00pm 👻
Made by #BBCStudios Specialist Factual
Are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic? I'm back with a new series of #Uncanny, investigating whether these haunted happenings could be more than they first appear…🕵️♂️
Watch tomorrow on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9:00pm 👻
Made by #BBCStudios Specialist Factual
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A Bronze Age horned helmet from Brøns Mose at Viksø, decorated with bosses and adorned with eyes and a beak. The helmet was found with an identical one in a bog. They were probably used at religious ceremonies. Later on, they were deposited in the bog as offerings. 🧵1/2
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🏺 #archaeology
December 20, 2024 at 8:38 AM
A Bronze Age horned helmet from Brøns Mose at Viksø, decorated with bosses and adorned with eyes and a beak. The helmet was found with an identical one in a bog. They were probably used at religious ceremonies. Later on, they were deposited in the bog as offerings. 🧵1/2
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🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
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The Hove Amber Cup for #FindsFriday
A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light.
Carved from a single piece of Baltic amber about 3,500 years ago.
Found in 1856 inside Hove Barrow, a large Bronze Age burial mound in Sussex.
📷 by me
#Archaeology
A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light.
Carved from a single piece of Baltic amber about 3,500 years ago.
Found in 1856 inside Hove Barrow, a large Bronze Age burial mound in Sussex.
📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
The Hove Amber Cup for #FindsFriday
A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light.
Carved from a single piece of Baltic amber about 3,500 years ago.
Found in 1856 inside Hove Barrow, a large Bronze Age burial mound in Sussex.
📷 by me
#Archaeology
A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light.
Carved from a single piece of Baltic amber about 3,500 years ago.
Found in 1856 inside Hove Barrow, a large Bronze Age burial mound in Sussex.
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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‼️😱👻SPECIAL PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT 👻😱‼️
Tomorrow, for Friday the 13th, I have a spooky Christmas treat for you…a BRAND NEW episode of Uncanny, where I’ll be taking Phil from our classic case ‘Don’t Sleep In This House’ back to where it all happened…LUIBEILT😱😱😱
Who’s excited? 😱👻
Tomorrow, for Friday the 13th, I have a spooky Christmas treat for you…a BRAND NEW episode of Uncanny, where I’ll be taking Phil from our classic case ‘Don’t Sleep In This House’ back to where it all happened…LUIBEILT😱😱😱
Who’s excited? 😱👻
December 12, 2024 at 8:12 PM
‼️😱👻SPECIAL PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT 👻😱‼️
Tomorrow, for Friday the 13th, I have a spooky Christmas treat for you…a BRAND NEW episode of Uncanny, where I’ll be taking Phil from our classic case ‘Don’t Sleep In This House’ back to where it all happened…LUIBEILT😱😱😱
Who’s excited? 😱👻
Tomorrow, for Friday the 13th, I have a spooky Christmas treat for you…a BRAND NEW episode of Uncanny, where I’ll be taking Phil from our classic case ‘Don’t Sleep In This House’ back to where it all happened…LUIBEILT😱😱😱
Who’s excited? 😱👻
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Astoundingly, this colourful clay vase was made between 7,300 and 6,800 years ago! 🤯
A masterpiece of Late Neolithic ceramic art, the decorative elements may well represent woven textile patterns. From Dimini, Thessaly, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A masterpiece of Late Neolithic ceramic art, the decorative elements may well represent woven textile patterns. From Dimini, Thessaly, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 10, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Astoundingly, this colourful clay vase was made between 7,300 and 6,800 years ago! 🤯
A masterpiece of Late Neolithic ceramic art, the decorative elements may well represent woven textile patterns. From Dimini, Thessaly, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A masterpiece of Late Neolithic ceramic art, the decorative elements may well represent woven textile patterns. From Dimini, Thessaly, Greece. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Extraordinary new finds from the sanctuary at San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany: extraordinary bronze statues, bronze snakes, jewellery, coins recovered from the mud.
www.ansa.it/english/news...
#archaeology 🏺 AncientBluesky
www.ansa.it/english/news...
#archaeology 🏺 AncientBluesky
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Extraordinary new finds from the sanctuary at San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany: extraordinary bronze statues, bronze snakes, jewellery, coins recovered from the mud.
www.ansa.it/english/news...
#archaeology 🏺 AncientBluesky
www.ansa.it/english/news...
#archaeology 🏺 AncientBluesky