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Some Melodious Plot @somemelodiousplot.bsky.social · 18m

Today's favourite piece of Tuscany art. The inlaid marble pavement of Duomo di Siena.

Sacrilege, perhaps, but this glorious floor put me in mind of Aubrey Beardsley's work.

Also, I don't think I've seen a finer interior to a cathedral than the one in Siena.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 9m

Utterly necessary. Yet how mad that it should be so...

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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MinnaLuft @minnaluft.bsky.social · 1h

'Metall' #FotoVorschlag
Fernsehturm, Berlin.

Die Kugel vom Fernsehturm in Berlin bildfüllend.Die untergehende Sonne von rechts färbt sie teilweise in orangerot.

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Garstang Museum of Archaeology @garstangmuseum.bsky.social · 2h

This glass plate #negative shows the reverse of a red slate votive tablet from site 6 (Lion Temple). It depicts King Tanyidamani in a long robe, with helmet-crown and sceptre. The original #photo was took in 1910 by Garstang during his #excavations of the ancient Sudanese site of Meroë. JG/M/E/7/b

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1h

The dramatic Castillo de Gormaz, Soria, towering over the tiny village of Gormaz. When the castle was built by Muslim Califate of Cordoba in early C9th CE it was largest in Europe. Still huge, overlooking inmense expanse of cereal plains, cut through by green oasis of the Duero.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no, that sounds horrific 😱 I hope you're able to have a lie down today to get over the shock of it all.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 7h

"She, the Power, the Life" 2017

Ivan Pili (b. 1976) Italian Artist

Oil on Canvas

100 x 70 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 6h

In the case highlighting Poiret's collaborations, there were these additional creations by Raoul Dufy. A 1911 coat, La Perse (The Persian), and a 1933 screen, The Map of Paris, which was actually later purchased by Christian Dior! #Fashionhistory #ootd #paulpoiret

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 15h

😂 me too, plus everything is blurry to me anyway 😂
But seriously, the reflections, the geometry of it, and the way the wind turbines just float etherially at the top - altogether it's so pleasing to the eye!

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 16h

Click on these - that 4th photo is 🤩

Sarah Deaves @sarahdeaves.bsky.social · 16h

Are you lot familiar with the blitz beach? If not, here’s some pics. Hightown / Crosby.

Tiles in a parquet pattern amongst the blitz beach rubble

Some old industrial stuff on the blitz beach

The assorted rubble of the blitz beach, lots of it rounded by the water. There is some sort of multi-strand rope thing in the middle of the picture, it’s about 2 or 3 foot long, no idea what it is.

Another rubbish blurry photo - a small flock of redshanks in the water in the foreground, with windmills out to sea in the distance

Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 16h

That 4th photo is absolutely superb when clicked on - deserves its own post! 🤩

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 16h

“We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore,” this theater, probably

dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 17h

Former Hub Theater, 1746 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. David Saul Klafter was the architect. Vintage photos from cinematreasures.org

Two story dark red brick theater, now a restaurant. There are square towers on each side and a large arched window across most of the front of the second floor. Stylized stone comedy and tragedy masks sit above the arch and above the entrances on both left and right.

Early photo of the same theater with a neon and bulb-lit marquee. Several cars of the period are parked in front. Signs advertise that it is "cool inside."

A later photo showing a different marquee, more Art Deco in design, with a snazzy car parked in front.

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Sarah Deaves @sarahdeaves.bsky.social · 16h

Do you wanna see a blurry photo of a curlew (foreground) and a what I think is a dredger (background)? Course ya do! Lots of curlews today, and redshanks. Merlin said there was a black-tailed godwit, too, but I didn’t see ‘em. Great black back gulls knocking about as well, terrifying birds 😁🪶

A blurry photo of the coastline at Crosby with the tide out. There is a wading bird feeding in a channel in the foreground. The sand in the midground is rippled like waves. A dredger (?) is operating out on the water in the distance.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 16h

“We have absolutely nothing of this complexity or type surviving from Henry VIII's early reign." Until now, understanding of the “bling” from this era has been reserved to inventories & observations of paintings by artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, but here you have a tangible example.

The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 16h

The British Museum launches a £3.5m campaign to keep a rare gold pendant—linked to Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon—in the UK.

buff.ly/b0m1U77

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 22h

INCREDIBLE response here

maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 22h

He's with the Angles now

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 23h

RIP to Harald Godwinson who died 959 years ago today you would have loved Buckinghamshire Archives xx

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23h

Shout out to Johns Hopkins University's Archaeological Museum, which has just reopened after being closed for almost 3 years! I visited 3 years ago, right when it closed and it is an amazing space with a huge offering of mummy masks & epigraphy as well hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/13/j... (Pics below by me)

plaster mummy feet with sandals painted from the JHU Archaeological Museum

Mummy masks from the JHU Archaeological Museum

Mummy mask from the JHU Archaeological Museum

mummy mask of a woman from the JHU Archaeological Museum

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 23h

Inside the Clifton Suspension Bridge. One of the chambers underneath an abutment, original builders rubble on the floor and stalactites hanging from the ceiling, from my post on the history of the bridge at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 23h

Very much looking forward to chatting to one of my absolute favourite authors, @michellepaver.bsky.social
tonight for the @hayfestival.bsky.social book club,
about her brilliant ghost story 'Dark Matter' to coincide with the publishing of a new 15th anniversary edition of the book!

Join us online!

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 23h

Fritz Gartner (1882–1958), Schwebebahn (Cologne), 1908. Pastel on canvas.

After studying in Munich, Gartner moved to Cologne to work as a magazine #illustrator.

Schwebebahn means an elevated or suspended railway.
#pastel #illustration #artist

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 23h

Pavel Tchelitchew, The Stair, 1932

Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 23h

2/ If you're braver than me, you can read an English translation in full here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Horla

and read about it, its background and various interpretations & observations, plus works it has influenced, here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horla

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 23h

🎃
La Horla - an 1887 horror story written in the style of a journal by Guy de Maupassant, after an initial, much shorter version was published in the newspaper Gil Blas, October, 1886.

Cover of 1908 edition, illustrated by William Julian-Damazy

I've tried to read it but it's too much for me... 1/

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 8d

I am enjoying the new book published by the National Trust looking at 100 of their UK textile treasures. It includes the famous beetle wing dress designed by Alice Comyns-Carr and worn by Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in the 1880s and immortalised by John Singer Sargent on canvas #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in a long green medieval style dress with long hanging sleeves and a gold belt

A portrait by Sargent of Ellen Terry wearing the green dress posed holding a crown above her head

The book cover of 100 Things to Wear by the National Trust

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

Another Paul Poiret dress that resulted from a collaboration is this 1910 Mosaic evening dress. It was designed by Victor Lhuer, a French artist and pattern designer for his couture house. Lhuer's illustrations of his designs for Poiret were also on display in the exhibit,

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

If, like me, you're a fan of Paul Poiret's designs, you'll love looking through the posts of this account!
These coats are beyond sumptuous

LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 5d

Case three featured the Orientalized, bright, and luxurious outerwear characteristic of Poiret's designs, alongside some accessories. 1. 1911 coat evening dress 2. 1911 coat 3. 1911 hat 4. 1914 headdress 5. 1910 handbag 6. 1911-13 turban