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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 1h

The beautiful Ayshford Chapel is one of only a handful of medieval chapels of ease that continued to be used for religious services after the Reformation.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3h

Tender portrait of 1758 of his wife Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (they had eloped in 1752) by eminent Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, friend of Samuel Johnson, born #OTD 1713; painted Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hume, Rousseau.
National Galleries of Scotland

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 4d

Door of Cautolleau store in Angers - 1897
Walnut, elm, wrought iron & copper.

Designer - Hector Guimard
Locksmith - Antoine Balet

Now @museeorsay.bsky.social #Paris

#Architect #HectorGuimard
#Architecture #ArtNouveau
#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday

Two doors with large windows inset with swirling ironwork.

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Dr. Héctor Linares @hectorlinares.bsky.social · 1d

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 17h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 14h

Readers of the Hobbit may be familiar with attercop as an old regional English term for spider. This has a slightly interesting trajectory. First, atter is an old word for venom, but that association had been lost so the term applied very generally to spiders...

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 18h

"Cobweb" comes from an old word for "spider," coming from Old English "coppe." So a cobweb is really just a spider's web.

#etymology

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 14h

A Neo-Gothic dream come true to visit Strawberry Hill House & Gardens today! 🏰🎉

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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 18h

Claude Monet, his painter’s palette, specs, and me.

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 14h

Wanderer Above the Sea Fog (after Caspar David Friedrich). The flanks of Aran Fawddwy #442Mountains

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 18h

Peeling wolves. #printsky #linocut #print

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 14h

Crazy clouds for tonight’s sunset over the bay

Photo of pink, orange and grey clouds with the remains of a vapour trail in dark purple and orange layering a bright blue sky and reflected in a calm puce sea with dark silhouetted foliage in the foreground; but, if you look at it upside down, there is a psychedelic tropical beach evening view with puffy pink white horses - crazy I know!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 17h

Quercus cerris, aka the Turkey oak, has acorns with furry little cups. It's grown in the UK as an ornamental tree: this acorn from one we spotted in Exeter. Information thanks to the excellent tree walks produced by Sidmouth Arboretum: sidmoutharboretum.org.uk/tree-trails/ #ConkerClub

A brown acorn in its cup. The cup is coverd in short bristly woody hairs.

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The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social · 15h

The Drawings section of The Frame Blog is growing: here is a glimpse of Adam's scheme for Headfort House, Ireland.
For more British frame drawings, go to theframeblog.com/drawings-and... and scroll down for century and country.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

A paper model of the Schwarzenberg #theatre (1766) in Český Krumlov. It’s a nice reminder of my last two summers teaching there. I can’t wait to revisit it again.

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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 1d

Birthday Dinner (not mine):

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 2d

I visited the @nmireland.bsky.social today for a bit of research, but I also took the opportunity to revisit the Words on the Wave exhibition, before it ends on October 24th.

It really is wonderful and you've only two weeks left, so do go and see it before it's gone!

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Page from the Irish Gospels of St Gall that dates to the 8th century AD. This shows an illustration of the Second Coming / Last Judgement.

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Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely to catch up with my friend and former colleague Holger Hestermeyer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna yesterday.

I hope we will bs collaborating on some more work on treaty scrutiny next year.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

Brera Madonna: early Renaissance altarpiece 1472, of faultless architectural proportion, with symbolic suspended egg; for donor Federico da Montefeltro,Duke of Urbino (kneeling) by Piero della Francesca, whose mastery of perspective drew on mathematics & geometry; died #OTD 1492.
Pinacoteca di Brera

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 1d

Travelling today we took the opportunity to drop in on the Ruthwell Cross; staggering (and very right) that this 1200-year-old monument is just tucked in a little parish church. We were last here 26 years ago: a blink of an eye for this thing.

The inside of a church, with a tall stone cross in a domed section at the far end.

A stone carving of Christ with a halo, on a stone column inside a church.

A carved stone column inside a church, showing twining foliage in which birds and animals eat berries.

A low whitewashed church surrounded by tall red sandstone gravestones.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Cuthbert completes his 13th Parkrun, in autumnal colours.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 2d

I was glad to see that the bust of Tolkien from the old English Faculty library is now in the new Schwarzman Centre Humanities Library! 📚

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1677 Cornelius Vermuyden died in London, a Dutch-born engineer who had been tasked with draining the watery fens and levels of eastern England.

As I wrote last year, Vermuyden’s fenland exploits provide a cautionary tale for those wading into unfamiliar landscapes.

A cautionary tale from an unfamiliar landscape

Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the Fens

northseanexus.substack.com

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