Peter Stewart
@petercnstewart.bsky.social
Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts.
The Aurel Stein papers in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk....
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Aurel Stein papers in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk....
Are rainbow colours used deliberately in classical art before late antiquity? I can't think of anything before the Vatican Virgil and maybe some late mosaics. (Even the embroidered tunic of the rainbow goddess Iris herself in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, seems subdued in comparison?)
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Are rainbow colours used deliberately in classical art before late antiquity? I can't think of anything before the Vatican Virgil and maybe some late mosaics. (Even the embroidered tunic of the rainbow goddess Iris herself in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, seems subdued in comparison?)
Woven woollen shoes with rainbow colours, from tomb no. 5, Niya, Xinjiang, ca. 2-3rd century AD.
[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]
[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Woven woollen shoes with rainbow colours, from tomb no. 5, Niya, Xinjiang, ca. 2-3rd century AD.
[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]
[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]
This welcome comment (by @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social on their redevelopment project) isn't a phrase one has heard much in recent years in the museum world - redevelopment has often focused on putting LESS on display!
October 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This welcome comment (by @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social on their redevelopment project) isn't a phrase one has heard much in recent years in the museum world - redevelopment has often focused on putting LESS on display!
Not everyone’s architectural cup of tea (I’d be more of a Casson & Conder man myself) but it’s lovely to see the new Schwarzman Centre for humanities subjects open @ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not everyone’s architectural cup of tea (I’d be more of a Casson & Conder man myself) but it’s lovely to see the new Schwarzman Centre for humanities subjects open @ox.ac.uk
A 20 (twenty) horse chariot - presumably emblematic of lots of success-bringing horsepower - on an electrotype replica of a Roman gem @carcoxford.bsky.social (original in Paris @labnf.bsky.social)
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A 20 (twenty) horse chariot - presumably emblematic of lots of success-bringing horsepower - on an electrotype replica of a Roman gem @carcoxford.bsky.social (original in Paris @labnf.bsky.social)
If you are not attracted to Gandharan sculptures ('ex Private Collection, Japan, before 1990') in Christie's current Asian art online auction, you could bid for a replica Bimaran Casket! onlineonly.christies.com/s/indian-him...
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you are not attracted to Gandharan sculptures ('ex Private Collection, Japan, before 1990') in Christie's current Asian art online auction, you could bid for a replica Bimaran Casket! onlineonly.christies.com/s/indian-him...
This very fine book has its own care instructions on the cover.
July 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This very fine book has its own care instructions on the cover.
“Gandhara Uncovered” - at Lahore Museum and online tomorrow 21 July
July 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Gandhara Uncovered” - at Lahore Museum and online tomorrow 21 July
Spotted this extraordinary comparandum on the Twitter account of @persiaantigua.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Spotted this extraordinary comparandum on the Twitter account of @persiaantigua.bsky.social
Late Roman tapestry fragment @colgate.edu emuseum.colgate.edu/objects/2770...
June 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Late Roman tapestry fragment @colgate.edu emuseum.colgate.edu/objects/2770...
From Tristan Gooley’s ‘How to Read a Tree’, I have learned that trees have eyes. I can’t un-see them now. 🌳 👀
June 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
From Tristan Gooley’s ‘How to Read a Tree’, I have learned that trees have eyes. I can’t un-see them now. 🌳 👀
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This very fine-looking volume is coming out soon - good pre-order discount here!
May 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This very fine-looking volume is coming out soon - good pre-order discount here!
A well dressed Athena looking at her even better dressed statue. Athenian bell krater in the Hermitage from Glazivka near Kerch, Ukraine. Early 4th century BC.
(BAPD no. 7207; photo from In Search of the Ancient Bosporos exhib. cat.)
(BAPD no. 7207; photo from In Search of the Ancient Bosporos exhib. cat.)
May 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A well dressed Athena looking at her even better dressed statue. Athenian bell krater in the Hermitage from Glazivka near Kerch, Ukraine. Early 4th century BC.
(BAPD no. 7207; photo from In Search of the Ancient Bosporos exhib. cat.)
(BAPD no. 7207; photo from In Search of the Ancient Bosporos exhib. cat.)
Embroidered wool textile from Noin-Ula, Mongolia, c. 1st century AD. [Copyright Jerry Tng via live2makan.com/2024/10/30/t...
May 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Embroidered wool textile from Noin-Ula, Mongolia, c. 1st century AD. [Copyright Jerry Tng via live2makan.com/2024/10/30/t...
(Probably) textile-influenced early Hellenistic wall-painting in the 'Soteriades Tomb' at Dion. 📸 www.cm2project.gr/index.php/di...
May 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
(Probably) textile-influenced early Hellenistic wall-painting in the 'Soteriades Tomb' at Dion. 📸 www.cm2project.gr/index.php/di...
Beautiful tailoring here on an Athenian red-figure cup from Nola @carcoxford.bsky.social #BeazleyArchive no. 211555.
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Beautiful tailoring here on an Athenian red-figure cup from Nola @carcoxford.bsky.social #BeazleyArchive no. 211555.
Hang on - have Bill Maher and @jowolff.bsky.social ever been seen in the same place together?
April 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hang on - have Bill Maher and @jowolff.bsky.social ever been seen in the same place together?
I am so tempted to take this procrastination test...
April 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I am so tempted to take this procrastination test...
Intriguing negative traces of figures painted on the clothing of goddess L (Dione) on the Parthenon's east pediment – revealed in remarkable research by Giovanni Verri et al. @antiquityj.bsky.social 2023
April 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Intriguing negative traces of figures painted on the clothing of goddess L (Dione) on the Parthenon's east pediment – revealed in remarkable research by Giovanni Verri et al. @antiquityj.bsky.social 2023