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Rafael Aprato
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Estudante de história e tal (da Época Moderna em Óbidos e Portugal). Focado na cultura material e na vida quotidiana.
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Rafael Aprato @rafaprato.bsky.social · Jan 20
As últimas casas do desaparecido Bairro da Cerca de Óbidos pouco antes da sua demolição. Gravura de Roque Gameiro (c.1899) e foto de inícios do séc. XX.
Um dos seus últimos moradores foi o sapateiro Frutuoso de Sousa (1820-1892), meu antepassado.
rafaprato.bsky.social
Óbidos nos anos 60!
youtu.be/YsTIFRGJn_4?...
1960s Óbidos, Old Portugal in HD from 35mm
YouTube video by Kinolibrary
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May 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Her eyes reveal something of what she was seeing.

Unidentified German Artist of the School of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Portrait of a Woman aged Twenty-six
1525

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
This week I've been working on a map for a textbook on the medieval global middle ages. It's a fun map, showing locations of cultural artifacts from the text

They've been fun to draw. Here are a couple of them including a couple of Marys (for context, these are each a bit less than an inch tall):
A colored drawing of the Virgin Mary, standing before a glowing background, supported by the the hardest working angel in show business. Mary is wearing a light blue veil and an orange robe; it looks a bit like washed-out UVA colors. She has her hands clasped and she's looking downward, but not in a mean way. She is standing on a cactus. like ya do. The text about the drawing reads: "Our Lady of Guadalupe" and the text below reads: "1531" The drawing is set in a black circle, on a parchment-colored background. The circle seems to float above a map, and has an arrow pointing to the location on the map where the artifact was from. Colored drawing of a sleeveless and shoulderless shirt. The shirt is an ochre color, and is gilded with an excessive amount of gold. You're looking at the seam, but I don't know if this is the front of the back. I am, fwiw, low-key proud of this drawing. I have a hard time getting metal to look metallic, and this gold has a nice shimmer to it. The text about the drawing reads: "Inca Tunic" and the text below reads: "15th C." The drawing is set in a black circle, on a parchment-colored background. The circle seems to float above a map, and has an arrow pointing to the location on the map where the artifact was from. A colored drawing of the Virgin holding a baby; presumably Jesus, but we can't dismiss the possibility that she's holding a baby for friend. Mary is wearing a dark cloak with gold trim, and is supporting the baby with one hand on it's rump. The baby jesus is wearing a faded red robe, and has it's weirdly sized head nestled in Mary's neck. Babies have big heads, but this little dude does not. The text about the drawing reads: "Theotokos of Cladimir" and the text below reads: "c. 1405" The drawing is set in a black circle, on a parchment-colored background. The circle seems to float above a map, and has an arrow pointing to the location on the map where the artifact was from. A colored drawing of a Marshall Island stick map. These maps were mean to map out ocean swells and currents. They were studied on shore, and helped the Polynesians to find their way across the Pacific. The text about the drawing reads: "Polynesian Navigational Map" and the text below reads: "19th C." The drawing is set in a black circle, on a parchment-colored background. The circle seems to float above a map, and has an arrow pointing to the location on the map where the artifact was from.
April 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Tomb of Philippe Pot, Grand Seneschal of Burgundy, [d. c. Sept 15, 1493]

(Louvre, Paris)
March 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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cornellupress.bsky.social
Enjoy The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona to read FREE for an entire month in celebration of the Medieval Academy of America 2025 annual meeting.

@medievalacademy.bsky.social #MAA25 #Medievalists #FreeReads

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March 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
2/2 Elegant couple visiting peasant wet-nurse. Wife checks baby, hubby has a beer with family. V. unusual subject, here by Marten van Cleve.
March 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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More peasant festivity this time, a wedding. A+ dog under the table is having really good time. By Marten van Cleve, because it's been his day.
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Pieter de Hooch (20 Dec 1629 - 24 Mar 1684) A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, about 1660–1663 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
March 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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morenodiazcampo.bsky.social
⚠️📚New Book on Conversos!
Enrique Soria and Luis Salas (@uco.es) , coordinate “Conversos, Power and the Intermediate Groups in Golden Age Spain”, recently published by @archaeopress.bsky.social.
Available in full text 👉 bit.ly/ConversosPower
#conversos #earlymodernhistory #SpanishGoldenAge
March 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Today's other artist without a known birthday: Marten van Cleve. Here, some festive peasants outside the inn in the 1560s. Marten's peasants are festive a lot, and good for them!
March 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Farm labourer versus cooper.
Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1620-1626

Place your bets.

(British Museum)
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
The so-called Plan F of the western facade of the Cologne Cathedral was probably made around 1300s. This incredibly detailed drawing is so well executed that it was mostly followed by the 19th C. builders who finished the church. 1/ #manuscripts #architecture
A fragment of a drawing showing portals of the Cologne cathedral.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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zannavanloon.bsky.social
A true artist at work on a the flyleaf in this copy of Petrus Apianus’ Cosmographia (1584) 👌

#rarebooks #marginalia #bookhistory #earlymodern 💙📚
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Rudimentary drawing of a horse on an empty flyleaf made with a pen Rudimentary drawing of a man on an empty flyleaf made with a pen Zoomed out picture of the rudimentary drawings of a horse and a man on an empty flyleaf made with a pen Title page of the work, with printed text and a large woodcut engraving of a globe. The title reads ‘Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis’ and the imprint reveals it was printed by Jan Bellerus in Antwerp in 1584
March 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities
A hand soaked with sweat, in a plastic glove, caught in the act while doing a digital scan of a broadside for a Munich based library. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10811151?page=6,7
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Game review!
Time to talk about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
I got early access and a free copy, just so you know, but I can still say what I want.
I also wrote a review for KCD 1, you can read that here;
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#kcd2 #KingdomComeDeliverance2
March 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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voetnoot.bsky.social
Kattenpootjes op een kloostermop uit de 13e eeuw #caturday #stadsarchief
March 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Just loving the idea of those windowsills that we all love so much being used to place babies on.

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March 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
After hundreds of hours of writing and research, I am done with my long form exposé on the early roots of American anti-trans law.

Looking both local and national, I picked apart America's first five anti-trans laws.

These obscure laws helped shape policing, slavery, book bans, AND transphobia 😐
The Birth of American Anti-Trans Law – A Brief History of Transfeminine Literature, Pt. 4
A hyperbolic descent into the Antebellum period in search of the origins of American anti-trans law.
thetransfemininereview.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
🖼️ Robin’s Nest, Fidelia Bridges.
Painting of nest surrounded by foliage and ferns, contains four blue eggs.
March 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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sanatintarihi.bsky.social
Carl Heinrich Bloch - The Woman with the Sparrows 1886
March 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Peasants eating peas: so much more immediate & stark than Dutch peasant paintings. Very human. By Georges de la Tour, who was born on this day in 1593.
March 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, 1607 by an unknown artist
(Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Lakeland Arts Trust)
March 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
The Fortune Teller, 1630s. So much deception! And not for nothing do some refer to Georges de la Tour as Master of the Side-Eye. He was born on this day in 1593.
March 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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book-historia.bsky.social
Here is the Application Cow for all your mathematical needs
An orange and yellow striped cow in an 1842 math manuscript
March 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM