Elizabeth Macaulay
@ermacaulay.bsky.social
Archaeologist and Architectural Historian; Associate Prof. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Smarthistory.org - editor and board chair. Interested in antiquity & why the modern world is obsessed with Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. Pug lover & cook.
A delightful morning with my mom (mother's day treat at day late) for a visit to the Sargent & Paris show at the met. Saw old favorites and new ones. Love his use of red, black, and white. Also love how the ladies take center stage.
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A delightful morning with my mom (mother's day treat at day late) for a visit to the Sargent & Paris show at the met. Saw old favorites and new ones. Love his use of red, black, and white. Also love how the ladies take center stage.
perfect afternoon. A street fair with my daughter (weird and wacky macarons, snicker flavored from Brooklyn). some light reading for next term: papyri and the museum of the bible (which for all of its ethics) had no problem buying a lot of stolen papyri (so much for the 10 commandments)..
May 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
perfect afternoon. A street fair with my daughter (weird and wacky macarons, snicker flavored from Brooklyn). some light reading for next term: papyri and the museum of the bible (which for all of its ethics) had no problem buying a lot of stolen papyri (so much for the 10 commandments)..
Great visit to Rethinking Etruria Exhibit at ISAW. Great objects, but even better stories. The grave goods from Norchia's tombs were unique: a stamnos from Tomb Lattanzi 3 with figures from the Iliad. 3-D printed copy of the Vicchio Stele from Poggio Colla; one can touch and look for inscriptions.
May 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Great visit to Rethinking Etruria Exhibit at ISAW. Great objects, but even better stories. The grave goods from Norchia's tombs were unique: a stamnos from Tomb Lattanzi 3 with figures from the Iliad. 3-D printed copy of the Vicchio Stele from Poggio Colla; one can touch and look for inscriptions.
apparently, a British Research survey says that owning a dog is like getting paid an extra $90,000. No price could be put on the joy that Minerva brings us! Happy 5th Birthday to our family's goddess of wisdom.
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
apparently, a British Research survey says that owning a dog is like getting paid an extra $90,000. No price could be put on the joy that Minerva brings us! Happy 5th Birthday to our family's goddess of wisdom.
From yesterday's seminar on Umayyad Art and Architecture. Part of the facade of Mshatta, an early caliphal residence in Jordan. Today in Berlin...it was gift from the Ottoman Sultan to the Kaiser..because nothing says friendship like a monumental piece of architecture. The Kaiser sent horses back...
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
From yesterday's seminar on Umayyad Art and Architecture. Part of the facade of Mshatta, an early caliphal residence in Jordan. Today in Berlin...it was gift from the Ottoman Sultan to the Kaiser..because nothing says friendship like a monumental piece of architecture. The Kaiser sent horses back...
Went to very cool center for book arts she looked at a fun exhibition about books that are not books! Personally, I like the decanters hidden in old books…
April 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Went to very cool center for book arts she looked at a fun exhibition about books that are not books! Personally, I like the decanters hidden in old books…
Civilization in midtown...
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Civilization in midtown...
From last spring break, 2024; I am stuck here in NYC working away to finish an MS...the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose...just a little Egyptomania on a Tuesday.
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
From last spring break, 2024; I am stuck here in NYC working away to finish an MS...the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose...just a little Egyptomania on a Tuesday.
A few more from the Frick...che bella! So happy this grand museum has reopened
April 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A few more from the Frick...che bella! So happy this grand museum has reopened
Minerva, Minerva, Minerva...One from Aquae Sulis (aka Roman Bath), One from Hildesheim in 1868, and One from NYC...All goddesses...all worshipped (I am preparing a seminar on Roman Britain...)
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Minerva, Minerva, Minerva...One from Aquae Sulis (aka Roman Bath), One from Hildesheim in 1868, and One from NYC...All goddesses...all worshipped (I am preparing a seminar on Roman Britain...)
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia by Jean-Bapiste Wicar (1790-1793) - from a trip to the Art Institute in 11/2024...I love the colors in the painting. It also reminds me of how my kids might respond when I have talking a little bit too long about the Temple of Dendur...
April 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia by Jean-Bapiste Wicar (1790-1793) - from a trip to the Art Institute in 11/2024...I love the colors in the painting. It also reminds me of how my kids might respond when I have talking a little bit too long about the Temple of Dendur...
Thinking of lost NY buildings today like Lewishon Stadium, CCNY @cuny.edu. Now under the North Academic Center, this building was for CCNY athletes, hosted Albert Einstein & was so-called Carnegie Hall of the working classes, where free and cheap concerts brought Gershwin to all. From the archives
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thinking of lost NY buildings today like Lewishon Stadium, CCNY @cuny.edu. Now under the North Academic Center, this building was for CCNY athletes, hosted Albert Einstein & was so-called Carnegie Hall of the working classes, where free and cheap concerts brought Gershwin to all. From the archives
wonderful visit to the Morgan Library with my son to see the Bella de Costa Greene exhibition (b/c he attends her same school now); he thought the application was a lot easier...(no youtube piano uploads for her) but important to understand history and her part.
March 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
wonderful visit to the Morgan Library with my son to see the Bella de Costa Greene exhibition (b/c he attends her same school now); he thought the application was a lot easier...(no youtube piano uploads for her) but important to understand history and her part.
Pane per tutti! Devo mangiare...
March 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Pane per tutti! Devo mangiare...
Catskill peace perfect for my favorite Rs: relaxation, reflection, and reading and my favorite B: baking
March 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Catskill peace perfect for my favorite Rs: relaxation, reflection, and reading and my favorite B: baking
Gallus gallus domesticus...or a chicken. His legs are tied which does not bode well for him...
March 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Gallus gallus domesticus...or a chicken. His legs are tied which does not bode well for him...
Prepping for a class on the City of Rome; Marconi had his own obelisk in EUR...built before and after WW2...Mussolini's fingerprints are all over the cityscape of Rome. A few modern obelisks are lurking in Rome...(from 2023, presented at a great conference on Classics and Italian Colonialism)
February 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Prepping for a class on the City of Rome; Marconi had his own obelisk in EUR...built before and after WW2...Mussolini's fingerprints are all over the cityscape of Rome. A few modern obelisks are lurking in Rome...(from 2023, presented at a great conference on Classics and Italian Colonialism)
and this is what you get for olla perforata....it is a pot with holes in it but it is definitely not a Roman planting pot...ah well. fun with AI
February 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
and this is what you get for olla perforata....it is a pot with holes in it but it is definitely not a Roman planting pot...ah well. fun with AI
I went to a great CUNY AI session about generating images (so thought provoking), so I asked ChatGPT to create a Dressel 2-4 amphora for me...not quite right looking....🫣
February 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I went to a great CUNY AI session about generating images (so thought provoking), so I asked ChatGPT to create a Dressel 2-4 amphora for me...not quite right looking....🫣
Emotional support pug after an exhausting weekend of sunbathing and snoring.
February 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Emotional support pug after an exhausting weekend of sunbathing and snoring.
In my alternative life, I would have been an lexicographer working for the OED...living vicariously through this fun book about compiling the OED. Volunteers sent in slips (sometimes in 1000s) to Murry the editor; radicals (Karl Marx's daughter), archaeologists, & even cannibals
February 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In my alternative life, I would have been an lexicographer working for the OED...living vicariously through this fun book about compiling the OED. Volunteers sent in slips (sometimes in 1000s) to Murry the editor; radicals (Karl Marx's daughter), archaeologists, & even cannibals
Spending my morning with the emperor Caracalla. He really looks like a meanie (technical term) & he was. He murdered his brother Geta in front of his mother Julia Domna, who was wounded in the attack in 211 CE. He wore his hair short like a soldier and was murdered in 217...
February 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Spending my morning with the emperor Caracalla. He really looks like a meanie (technical term) & he was. He murdered his brother Geta in front of his mother Julia Domna, who was wounded in the attack in 211 CE. He wore his hair short like a soldier and was murdered in 217...
Since everyone knows The Wanderer of above a Sea of Fog (Friedrich's most famous painting), I will post my other favorite painting: The Ruins of the Abbey at Oybin (1812). Painters and artists are obsessed with ruins - they are sublime and yet tell us of a lost world. Perfection on a rainy day.
February 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Since everyone knows The Wanderer of above a Sea of Fog (Friedrich's most famous painting), I will post my other favorite painting: The Ruins of the Abbey at Oybin (1812). Painters and artists are obsessed with ruins - they are sublime and yet tell us of a lost world. Perfection on a rainy day.
Monk minus boats. This 1808-10 painting of a monk wandering by the Baltic sea originally had boats in it (still visible via infrared light). It is so moody without the boats; nature seems infinite and man tiny but a part of it all.
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Monk minus boats. This 1808-10 painting of a monk wandering by the Baltic sea originally had boats in it (still visible via infrared light). It is so moody without the boats; nature seems infinite and man tiny but a part of it all.