Dr Anna Clark
@drannaclark.bsky.social
Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Deux Ouvrières dans l’Atelier de Couture: two seamstresses, 1891, by Édouard Vuillard, French Intimiste artist & printmaker, born #OTD 1868; member of avant-garde group Les Nabis, his densely patterned interior scenes were influenced by Japanese printmaking and textiles.
National Galleries Scotland
National Galleries Scotland
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Deux Ouvrières dans l’Atelier de Couture: two seamstresses, 1891, by Édouard Vuillard, French Intimiste artist & printmaker, born #OTD 1868; member of avant-garde group Les Nabis, his densely patterned interior scenes were influenced by Japanese printmaking and textiles.
National Galleries Scotland
National Galleries Scotland
Cassis, Cap Lombard, 1889, by Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist artist, known for luminous coastal views, born #OTD 1863; developed pointillism with Seurat & influenced Matisse.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Cassis, Cap Lombard, 1889, by Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist artist, known for luminous coastal views, born #OTD 1863; developed pointillism with Seurat & influenced Matisse.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
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This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
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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
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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This weekend, I started Time Regained, the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. It hasn’t been easy, but it’s become a part of every day. I’m going to miss it when it’s done, so I’m going to be sure to savor my time with this last volume.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This weekend, I started Time Regained, the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. It hasn’t been easy, but it’s become a part of every day. I’m going to miss it when it’s done, so I’m going to be sure to savor my time with this last volume.
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View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
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Gray's citations of ancient Greek vase painting surely would have worked better in E.1027 than Le Corbusier's murals ...
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
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November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Gray's citations of ancient Greek vase painting surely would have worked better in E.1027 than Le Corbusier's murals ...
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
"The screen “Le Destin” and the “Charioteer” table Gray created for table for fashion designer Jacques Doucet."
(image link in 1st post)
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The dog & I walked along the shore of a small island in the innermost part of the fjord. In the summer, we cannot explore this area because it is a nesting-ground for ducks. It had a definitive otherworldly quality about it, being as it is a place where land & sea are not always distinguishable.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The dog & I walked along the shore of a small island in the innermost part of the fjord. In the summer, we cannot explore this area because it is a nesting-ground for ducks. It had a definitive otherworldly quality about it, being as it is a place where land & sea are not always distinguishable.
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Between 1000 and 300 BCE, potters in Cyprus produced pottery and figures for daily use, feasting, ritual, and as gifts for the dead and the gods.
This wine jug, or oinochoe, dates to about 750-600 BCE and has been decorated with an ibis bird picking at a lotus flower.
AN1967.1088
This wine jug, or oinochoe, dates to about 750-600 BCE and has been decorated with an ibis bird picking at a lotus flower.
AN1967.1088
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Between 1000 and 300 BCE, potters in Cyprus produced pottery and figures for daily use, feasting, ritual, and as gifts for the dead and the gods.
This wine jug, or oinochoe, dates to about 750-600 BCE and has been decorated with an ibis bird picking at a lotus flower.
AN1967.1088
This wine jug, or oinochoe, dates to about 750-600 BCE and has been decorated with an ibis bird picking at a lotus flower.
AN1967.1088
“Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
“And still they gazed & still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
Oliver Goldsmith, versatile Irish writer, born #OTD 1728; known for novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), poem The Deserted Village (1770) and play She stoops to Conquer (1771).
Trinity College Dublin
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
Oliver Goldsmith, versatile Irish writer, born #OTD 1728; known for novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), poem The Deserted Village (1770) and play She stoops to Conquer (1771).
Trinity College Dublin
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“And still they gazed & still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
Oliver Goldsmith, versatile Irish writer, born #OTD 1728; known for novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), poem The Deserted Village (1770) and play She stoops to Conquer (1771).
Trinity College Dublin
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
Oliver Goldsmith, versatile Irish writer, born #OTD 1728; known for novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), poem The Deserted Village (1770) and play She stoops to Conquer (1771).
Trinity College Dublin
The Shrimp Girl, c. 1740, vivid portrayal of London street seller of shrimps & mussels, her basket on her head with pewter measure, by William Hogarth, innovative English painter, engraver, satirist, born #OTD 1697; the spontaneity & loose brushwork foreshadow Impressionism.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The Shrimp Girl, c. 1740, vivid portrayal of London street seller of shrimps & mussels, her basket on her head with pewter measure, by William Hogarth, innovative English painter, engraver, satirist, born #OTD 1697; the spontaneity & loose brushwork foreshadow Impressionism.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
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#StandingStoneSunday chancing across the Merry Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, #Cornwall, as we dropped down to Newlyn was a real delight.
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#StandingStoneSunday chancing across the Merry Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, #Cornwall, as we dropped down to Newlyn was a real delight.
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
Heaven knows how this perfect circle has survived 4500 years of landscape change since the Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age 🥰
📷 My own, Friday
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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A delectable description, this late #1950s Balenciaga is a ginger coloured shantung silk with silver embroidery and sequins. It has an asymmetric hem that sweeps behind the wearer #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A delectable description, this late #1950s Balenciaga is a ginger coloured shantung silk with silver embroidery and sequins. It has an asymmetric hem that sweeps behind the wearer #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Classic Vienna. -- Augarten, in autumnal colours. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Classic Vienna. -- Augarten, in autumnal colours. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria
Winter landscape with skaters, painted c. 1665 by Aert van der Neer, Dutch Golden Age artist who worked in and around Amsterdam, known for lively winter scenes on frozen rivers; died #OTD 1670.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Winter landscape with skaters, painted c. 1665 by Aert van der Neer, Dutch Golden Age artist who worked in and around Amsterdam, known for lively winter scenes on frozen rivers; died #OTD 1670.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
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This is so lovely from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social it’s worth breaking my social media silence for. Wonderful writing on a favourite topic!
on.ft.com/3JJXC0e Postcard from Manchester: a Landmark Trust retreat at the heart of railway history
on.ft.com/3JJXC0e Postcard from Manchester: a Landmark Trust retreat at the heart of railway history
Postcard from Manchester: a Landmark Trust retreat at the heart of railway history
A house that was at the centre of the 19th-century rail revolution can now be yours for the weekend
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is so lovely from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social it’s worth breaking my social media silence for. Wonderful writing on a favourite topic!
on.ft.com/3JJXC0e Postcard from Manchester: a Landmark Trust retreat at the heart of railway history
on.ft.com/3JJXC0e Postcard from Manchester: a Landmark Trust retreat at the heart of railway history
Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist, born #OTD 1656, sponsor of Newton’s Principia, computed orbit and periodicity of eponymous comet, mapped solar eclipse of 1715.
National Portrait Gallery | Royal Society
National Portrait Gallery | Royal Society
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist, born #OTD 1656, sponsor of Newton’s Principia, computed orbit and periodicity of eponymous comet, mapped solar eclipse of 1715.
National Portrait Gallery | Royal Society
National Portrait Gallery | Royal Society
“See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds...”
John Milton, revered English poet, author of Paradise Lost, died #OTD 1674.
Christs College Cambridge
John Milton, revered English poet, author of Paradise Lost, died #OTD 1674.
Christs College Cambridge
November 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
“See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds...”
John Milton, revered English poet, author of Paradise Lost, died #OTD 1674.
Christs College Cambridge
John Milton, revered English poet, author of Paradise Lost, died #OTD 1674.
Christs College Cambridge
The Bodleian Library opened to the public #OTD in 1602.
Duke Humfrey’s Library: oldest reading room in the Bodleian, named after Humphrey Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester who bequeathed 281 books after his death in 1447.
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Duke Humfrey’s Library: oldest reading room in the Bodleian, named after Humphrey Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester who bequeathed 281 books after his death in 1447.
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Bodleian Library opened to the public #OTD in 1602.
Duke Humfrey’s Library: oldest reading room in the Bodleian, named after Humphrey Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester who bequeathed 281 books after his death in 1447.
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Duke Humfrey’s Library: oldest reading room in the Bodleian, named after Humphrey Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester who bequeathed 281 books after his death in 1447.
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
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'In nomine Domini, Clemens Uuillibrordus anno sexcentessimo nonagessimo ab incarnatione Christi ueniebat ultra mare in Francea.'
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky
August 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
'In nomine Domini, Clemens Uuillibrordus anno sexcentessimo nonagessimo ab incarnatione Christi ueniebat ultra mare in Francea.'
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky
A collection of all my posts related to my research on #Willibrord & early medieval #Echternach in one thread. #MedievalSky