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Daysi Caldevilla-Düing
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mom. teacher. union member. history buff. science matters. art lover. UPenn. FIU. on-the-cusp-of boomer & gen x. cuban-american.
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nhdoglover.bsky.social 🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · Mar 4
Christian Martyr Tarcisius (El Had Malick Gueye), 2022,
Artist, Kehinde Wiley,
Born 1977.
Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco
#Art
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Dacia Carter (2012)
portrait of a Black woman dressed in a white gown painted by Kehinde Wiley
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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valent6228.bsky.social Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 12d
Femmes voilées sur les toits de Tunis (1922) - Albert Louis Aublet #orientalism
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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kalmantibs.bsky.social Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 14d
Born on this day, November 16, 1928.
American painter, Charles Wysocki, 1928-2002.
Nantucket Autumn, 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.

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📷 Maryellen Brown | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14d
Myrtle Pizzey, a contemporary artist and printmaker from Somerset, UK #WomensArt
Print featuring with images looking down on a basket full of different shaped and sized gourds in yellows greens and orange colours
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15d
Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer on a flake of limestone, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.

Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!

From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a limestone fragment measuring 17 cm x 11.5 cm x 4 cm with a painting of a female dancer shown in profile performing an acrobatic back bend. The girl has long wavy/crimped black hair which falls down to the ground. She is wearing large gold circular earrings and a black kilt with decorative red and white pattern which is tied at the front around her hips. This limestone fragment comes from the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina which housed the artisans who worked on the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Flakes of limestone were readily available as by-products of tomb construction. They were used by artisans as sketch and note pads for practice drawings, sketching, writing poetry etc.etc. These stone flakes are known by Egyptologists as ostraca, (singular: ostracon). Thousands of ostraca have been found at Deir-el Medina.
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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archaeohistories.bsky.social Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 24d
The Pharaonic Setup 𓂀𓋹𓁈𓃠☥𓅓

© The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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callybeaton.bsky.social Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 26d
Bottling this for if I have a bad day.
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Oct 31
Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s.

Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
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My photo collage shows four images of Roman-era clear-glass cups painted with colourful enamel decoration depicting animals from the Roman Arena. Known as ‘circus cups’, fourteen of which have been found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark. Dated AD 200s. The top two images show two sides of the same cup. Top left: a brown lion with shaggy mane, its front and rear legs outstretched as if running at full speed. Top right: a green spotted leopard. Out of shot, a blue goat is being hunted down by the lion and the leopard. Bottom left: fragmentary glass cup decorated with a light brown lion with shaggy mane. Nose and lips outlined in black. Bottom right: image of a gladiator with green leggings and blue shield, and in front of him a large brown bear.
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · Oct 30
A magnificent #statue of a #priestess of #Isis, from the #Serapeum of #Tauromenium, today's #Taormina, from around 200 CE. The knot in her dress identifies her. She's holding a cista or container indicating that she is about to initiate a believer into the Isaic mystery cult. #AncientBluesky 🏺
STATUE OF A PRIESTESS OF ISIS, C. 200 CE. PALAZZO CIAMPOLI, TAORMINA Ancient Tauromenium was the centre of a major cult centre of the Roman Egyptian gods Isis and Serapis, one of the most important centres in the Mediterranean. None of the Serapeum survives today, but this statue and various other pieces of decoration have been found in excavations near the church of S. Pancrazio. This statue has a particular delicacy and grace in its carving. The priestess of Isis is identifiable by the famous Isaic knot in her dress, between her breasts. Her broken right arm would have held a sistrum or ceremonial rattle, and her left hand holds a rounded cista which contained items and substances used in the initiation of new members into the mystery cult of Isis.
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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laneutrina.bsky.social Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · Oct 30
Longing
by Laurie Lee Brom
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Oct 26
Night Bird, 2020 Relief printing combined with charcoal, acrylic, gold leaf and hand stitching by US printmaker and mixed media artist Delita Martin #WomensArt
Print featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing left and looking outwards, with feather ruff, circular patterning surround and cover the subject. All in blue, white and black
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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dimitri-tilloi.bsky.social Dimitri Tilloi-d’Ambrosi @dimitri-tilloi.bsky.social · Oct 23
Matinée de visite dans la Vallée des Temples à Agrigente, ici le temple de la Concorde. Magnifique.
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Ever wondered about the fish or whale on the Penn shield? It's actually an 18th-century depiction of a dolphin! 🐬

The shield symbolizes learning with open books, the dolphin from Benjamin Franklin's coat of arms, and three "plates" (circles) from the Penn family's coat of arms.

October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Oct 16
“.. Penn has rejected the White House’s proposed preferential funding compact, according to a Thursday email to the University community.”

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October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Please consider supporting my Fiber Arts class through Donors Choose. We are a Title I middle school located in historic Little Havana.
#art #fiberarts #weaving #knitting #crocheting #macrame #crossstich #teachersky #DonorsChoose #teaching #education
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Critical Thinking through Fiber Arts, a project from Ms. Caldevilla-Duing
Help me give my students knitting needles and other much needed supplies to explore the wonderful world of Fiber Arts My middle school students are a vibrant group of eager learners who thrive on h...
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October 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Autumn leaves ready to fall down like pieces into place 🍂

📷 Credit: @chaowu_photo
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · Oct 11
My painting TROUT WATER
October 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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laneutrina.bsky.social Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · Oct 10
Cayetano De Arquer-Buigas
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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chariselee.bsky.social Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · Oct 8
This is so sweet‼️ Everyone deserves a hype girl on their wedding day‼️
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Oct 7
A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

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A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania @upenn.edu · Oct 4
From a calm afternoon last fall, just above the center of campus.
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania @upenn.edu · Sep 26
Built in 1894, Penn's iconic Houston Hall was America's first college union building. An impressive 99,882 square feet, this architectural masterpiece has been a gathering place for generations of Penn students.
October 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM