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TomSQC
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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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toulouselautrec.bsky.social
Buy my Pretty Violets, from Mélodies de Désiré Dihau
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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dinahrose.bsky.social
Chag Chanukah sameach from Ozzy
Lit Chanukah menorah in a window. Christmas tree beyond. A grey cat is admiring the scene.
December 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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dean.bsky.social
On Gustave Eiffel's birthday, my favourite Eiffel Tower photographs

📷 André Kertész
Paris, The Eiffel Tower, 1925
The Tower is lit up by two nearby lightning strikes
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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gdibondone.bsky.social
Raising of Lazarus https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/raising-of-lazarus
Giotto di Bondone's "Raising of Lazarus" is a fresco that captures the miraculous moment when Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, a theme central to Christian iconography. This work, part of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, showcases Giotto’s pioneering use of perspective and emotional expression that marked a departure from the Byzantine style toward more naturalistic representation in art.
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
thomassqc.bsky.social
Saint Lucy, tempera and gold leaf on panel, by Niccolò di Segna, 1340, currently on view at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Born on this day in 1553: Henri IV of France. Always looks like such a cheerful, benevolent fellow. Tolerant, too! Too bad he was assassinated in 1610, the very year of this lovely drawing.
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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edwardhopper.bsky.social
Landscape with Rocks - 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104542
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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diehoren.bsky.social
'Breakfast of the Birds' by Gabriele Münter (1934). There's a retrospective of her work now at the Guggenheim in New York, which I enjoyed seeing yesterday.

Details of the show can be found here:
www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/g...
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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qerese.bsky.social
Saint Anna, the mother of the mother of God
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600

Look how Mary has her arm around Anne.

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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vangogh.bsky.social
In 1887 at Asnières-sur-Seine, Van Gogh painted bridges and factories with Pointillist dots and dashes to capture reflections on the Seine.
He sought to show industry and leisure sharing the same spaces of modern life.
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
Today is Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. May you always go in prayer to Mary, our mother.

Image: Lady Chapel, St. Patrick’s Cathedral
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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monet.bsky.social
Charing Cross Bridge - 1901
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110591
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon across time and cultures. In this extract, Kenyon charts the development of the carol, and their enduring association with Christmas.

yalebooks.co.uk/the-origins-...

#music #history #skystorians
The Origins of Christmas Carols - Yale University Press London
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all music—across time and In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores ...
yalebooks.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Ewer in the Form of an Elephant
Vietnam
11th–12th century

(Met Museum)
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
thomassqc.bsky.social
Saint Ambrose of Milan, tempera on wood panel with ground gold, by Giovanni Di Paolo, circa 1470, currently on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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joanmiro.bsky.social
The Poetess https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-poetess
The Poetess
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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diehoren.bsky.social
Just back from the Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met. It's wonderful to have so much work from this powerful Finnish painter in New York. This is 'Self Portrait, Black Background' from 1915. It's on loan from The Finnish National Gallery.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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kerria.bsky.social
‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’

~Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#PhantomsFriday
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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cmamedieval.bsky.social
Saint Nicholas of Bari https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.111
Saint Nicolas of Bari, patron saint of children, sailors, and travelers, and the prototype of Father Christmas, was bishop of Myra (Lycia) in Asia Minor during the AD 300s. His remains were said to have been taken to Bari in Italy during the 11th century. The saint is shown vested as bishop in an elaborately embroidered cope, fastened with a morse, and holding a crosier. <br><br>By the mid-1400s, most Florentine artists had stopped using gold backgrounds in their pictures, preferring instead naturalistic backgrounds of landscapes and blue skies. However, elsewhere in Italy gold-ground painting remained popular, as in this painting by Crivelli, a a painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione, and Mantegna. By 1458 he left the Veneto and was never to return; he spent most of the remainder of his career in the March of Ancona, where he developed a distinctive personal style that makes a contrast to his Venetian contemporary Giovanni Bellini.
December 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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gdibondone.bsky.social
Last Judgment https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/last-judgment-1306
Giotto di Bondone's "Last Judgment," located in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, is a monumental fresco depicting Christ in judgment, situated centrally above a vivid representation of heaven and hell. The artwork is renowned for its emotional depth and innovative use of perspective and naturalism, which marked a turning point in Italian Renaissance art.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
thomassqc.bsky.social
Church of the Holy Spirit, Kenyon College.
parishrecluse.bsky.social Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 11d
The church looked nice in the snow as I walked over to fold bulletins yesterday after work.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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sardonicus.eu
Eugène Fredrik Jansson‘s Evening, 1894
landscape painting of a tree lined river
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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gauguin.bsky.social
Haymaking in Brittany
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12246
Haymaking in Brittany
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
thomassqc.bsky.social
Today, December 4, is the feast day of Saint John (Giovanni) Calabria (1873 – 1954), Catholic priest devoted to the poor and infirm, founder of two congregations, and a correspondent, in Latin, with C.S. Lewis. Christmas present to self: The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis (St. Augustine's Press).
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM