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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate. Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est. 'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie' (Mountain Laurel by Donal)

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · Nov 11

As I would ever be.
(Le Liseur, Odilon Redon, 1892)

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 17h

Frederick Copleston, SJ, needs to be rediscovered.
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The patron saint of undergraduate philosophers: Frederick Copleston

The books of Frederick Copleston, S.J., continue to grace the bookshelves of philosophers, seminarians, college students and many others as an invaluable resource of clear-headed, insightful explicati...

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 17h

Dear Lord, grant me the life expectancy to read all 11 volmes of A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston, SJ.

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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · Jun 16

#NewAcquisition @heythroplib.bsky.social : A History of Philosophy : The Condensed Copleston /
Anthony J. Carroll, Frederick C. Copleston. Our catalogue record: catalogue.libraries....

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Toulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social · 19h

Study of a Nude

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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 18h

Cottages on Mount Sainte Marguerite
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12228

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 1d

Landscape in the Ile de France, 1865
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11341

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Hannah Arendt on her birthday 🎂
📷 Neal Boenzi, The New School, New York, 1969

"The combination of tremendous intellectual power with great common sense makes Arendt's insights into history & politics seem both amazing & obvious."
- Mary McCarthy

Arendt at the blackboard, teaching with a coffee mug on her desk. Behind her on the board: "Masaccio - Leonardo - El Greco - Caravaggio - Rembrandt"

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 1d

Blackhead, Monhegan - 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105005

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Gustave Moreau @gmoreau.bsky.social · 1d

Hesiod and the Muse https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/312383

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David P. Becker

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Also born on this day, but in 1425, Alesso Baldovinetti, who painted this beautiful Annunciation in 1457.

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 22h

" . . . what’s needed in this ever more polarized Church and world is an orientation to what we might call the radical middle."

Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 6d

"In the end, what’s needed in this ever more polarized Church and world is an orientation to what we might call the radical middle."

Paul Lakeland on John Gehring's 'Reclaiming American Catholicism':
www.commonwealmagazine.org/heavy-lift

Heavy Lift?

John Gehring’s 'Reclaiming American Catholicism' is an exhaustive account of Catholicism in the Trump era and all that we face to reclaim the faith.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 23h

Landscape in the Rain - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14814

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 2d

Field of Spring Wheat at Sunrise - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14562

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing lucid solemnity in the Baptism of Christ, 1450, by Piero della Francesca. He died (alas!) on this day in 1492.

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 2d

Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2d

A beautifully framed photo of Richard Burton by Ken Russell. Russel was the still photographer on the set of Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great, 1955.

By the way, Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus.

Burton, in costume, communes with his horse.

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · May 23

"To be that attentive to nature, to let the world wash over you, seems a particular kind of gift. There is a tenderness to this work, an intimacy. Stay a while, they seem to urge. Go on looking."

My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent quotation , much needed today, from An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845). Newman's influence on the spirit of the Second Vatican Council was profound and true.

Common Home Tv @commonhome-tv.bsky.social · 2d

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” St John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman was a leading 19th century Anglican who converted to Catholicism and became one of the most influential Christian figures of modern times.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d

A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay.
Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2

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Roman bronze fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back. The panther’s body features small enamel inlays, and the piece rests on display in a museum case.

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 2d

Fun interview.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 3d

Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’ | Books | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’

The author and comedian on the immortal lines of Snoopy, discovering the heart of Homer’s Iliad and her culinary comfort read

www.theguardian.com

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 3d

The Thamesv - 1900/1901
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109720

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Sawkill, in light rain

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 3d

Rest in peace Diane x

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 4d

I reviewed this wonderful work on Blogging Woolf at bloggingwoolf.org/2025/10/07/n...

New Virginia Woolf work, The Life of Violet, is out today

he Life of Violet, edited by Urmila Seshagiri and just out today from Princeton University Press, is the newly discovered revised typescript of three early short stories by Virginia Woolf based on …

bloggingwoolf.org

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 5d

Mount Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14587

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TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social · 5d

Portrait of Saint and soon-to-be Doctor of the Church John Henry Newman (whose feast day is October 9), oil on canvas (1881), by Sir John Everett Millais, National Portrait Gallery, London.