Annemarieke Willemsen
@amwillemsen.bsky.social
A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 📚 🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Yes, the book is here, in the flesh 🤩
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yes, the book is here, in the flesh 🤩
Vandaag is de 59e verjaardag van archeoloog & vriend Olivier Nieuwenhuijse, veel te vroeg overleden. We zijn hem niet vergeten ❤️🩹 Luister vandaag naar iets waar hij van hield, zoals deze:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XK...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XK...
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Vandaag is de 59e verjaardag van archeoloog & vriend Olivier Nieuwenhuijse, veel te vroeg overleden. We zijn hem niet vergeten ❤️🩹 Luister vandaag naar iets waar hij van hield, zoals deze:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XK...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XK...
New exhibition "Michelangelo's Men" in Teylers Museum Haarlem, until Jan 25, 2026 - first time a statue by the Renaissance master is on loan to the Netherlands! Loved the serene portrait of young Andrea Quaratesi ✏️
teylersmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-d...
teylersmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-d...
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
New exhibition "Michelangelo's Men" in Teylers Museum Haarlem, until Jan 25, 2026 - first time a statue by the Renaissance master is on loan to the Netherlands! Loved the serene portrait of young Andrea Quaratesi ✏️
teylersmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-d...
teylersmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-d...
Zoals @pieterderks.bsky.social al zei, we hebben maar twee problemen: fascisme en klimaat. Morgen laten we onze stemmen horen voor natuur én mens #kiesklimaat #klimaatmars @klimaatmars.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Zoals @pieterderks.bsky.social al zei, we hebben maar twee problemen: fascisme en klimaat. Morgen laten we onze stemmen horen voor natuur én mens #kiesklimaat #klimaatmars @klimaatmars.bsky.social
"Myths & Possibilities" (George Widener, Robert Garcet), the history of encyclopedias (Avicenna) & of artist's books (William Morris) in Museum of the Book @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague 📚
October 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Myths & Possibilities" (George Widener, Robert Garcet), the history of encyclopedias (Avicenna) & of artist's books (William Morris) in Museum of the Book @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague 📚
Just saw my mentioning of painter Benozzo Gozzoli in an online lecture automatically subtitled as "Not-so God-solely" and kinda like it #arthistoricalproblems
October 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Just saw my mentioning of painter Benozzo Gozzoli in an online lecture automatically subtitled as "Not-so God-solely" and kinda like it #arthistoricalproblems
Scotland 🏴 #Cairngorms, glorious tough Sunday walk, from Pitlochry to Loch Choire & up Ben Vrackie, amazing views all around 🤩
#lovemountains
#lovemountains
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Scotland 🏴 #Cairngorms, glorious tough Sunday walk, from Pitlochry to Loch Choire & up Ben Vrackie, amazing views all around 🤩
#lovemountains
#lovemountains
Kerry James Marshall (b.1955), painter and prof, "The Histories", retrospective with new work at Royal Acadrmy, London. Black, bright, bold, clever as hell, food for thought 🤩 Until Jan 18, 2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Kerry James Marshall (b.1955), painter and prof, "The Histories", retrospective with new work at Royal Acadrmy, London. Black, bright, bold, clever as hell, food for thought 🤩 Until Jan 18, 2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Sheer beauty 🤩 stone lintels from Yaxchilan, Maya culture, 450-550 (with pictograms, that list rulers) and c.725 CE (large scenes, that show them performing rituals). Now in British Museum, London, gallery 27 🏛 Yaxchilan, on border between Mexico and Guatemala, was an extraordinary place to visit 🦋
October 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sheer beauty 🤩 stone lintels from Yaxchilan, Maya culture, 450-550 (with pictograms, that list rulers) and c.725 CE (large scenes, that show them performing rituals). Now in British Museum, London, gallery 27 🏛 Yaxchilan, on border between Mexico and Guatemala, was an extraordinary place to visit 🦋
Just open: 'Beato Angelico" in #Florence, unique overview exhibition in Palazzo Strozzi featuring re-assembled golden altarpieces & in Museo di San Marco featuring manuscripts & serene context of frescoed cells. Surprise bonus: Van Eyck's "St Jerome in Study" from Detroit 🦁 worth the trip! < 25 Jan
September 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Just open: 'Beato Angelico" in #Florence, unique overview exhibition in Palazzo Strozzi featuring re-assembled golden altarpieces & in Museo di San Marco featuring manuscripts & serene context of frescoed cells. Surprise bonus: Van Eyck's "St Jerome in Study" from Detroit 🦁 worth the trip! < 25 Jan
For #InternationalRabbitDay a frolicking bunny on a maiolica dish from Faenza, early 16thC, now at extensive & lively International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza (Italy) 🐇
September 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For #InternationalRabbitDay a frolicking bunny on a maiolica dish from Faenza, early 16thC, now at extensive & lively International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza (Italy) 🐇
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Today in Certaldo Alto (Tuscany), extremely cute medieval borgo, birth place & tomb of poet Giovanni Boccaccio 🤩
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Today in Certaldo Alto (Tuscany), extremely cute medieval borgo, birth place & tomb of poet Giovanni Boccaccio 🤩
Florence ⚜️ lovely to explore city from NIKI (Dutch Art Historical Institute) amongst green hills 🦎
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Florence ⚜️ lovely to explore city from NIKI (Dutch Art Historical Institute) amongst green hills 🦎
It's #September! I'm on a train to Italy, in this calendar from a Flemish Book of Hours' they're playing 'kolf', a precursor of both #golf & hockey, giving this #manuscript its nickname 'The Golf Book'.
London, British Library, ms Add 24098, f 27r, Simon Bening, 1520-1530, image: Wikipedia Commons.
London, British Library, ms Add 24098, f 27r, Simon Bening, 1520-1530, image: Wikipedia Commons.
September 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's #September! I'm on a train to Italy, in this calendar from a Flemish Book of Hours' they're playing 'kolf', a precursor of both #golf & hockey, giving this #manuscript its nickname 'The Golf Book'.
London, British Library, ms Add 24098, f 27r, Simon Bening, 1520-1530, image: Wikipedia Commons.
London, British Library, ms Add 24098, f 27r, Simon Bening, 1520-1530, image: Wikipedia Commons.
Today #OTD is the day of St Fiacre, patron of gardeners, florists, carriage drivers & prostitutes (among others) 🌻 Always portrayed with a spade & book, combining the active life with the completative. Looking balanced 😇 Great saint to share a day with!
Statue: St Janshospitaal #Bruges
Statue: St Janshospitaal #Bruges
August 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For #InternationalDogDay, some of the best #medieval #dogs (and collars) encountered in the Groeningemuseum in #Bruges 🐕 @museabrugge
August 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
For #InternationalDogDay, some of the best #medieval #dogs (and collars) encountered in the Groeningemuseum in #Bruges 🐕 @museabrugge
Vogelkasteel op t Valkhof in Nijmegen 🏰
August 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Vogelkasteel op t Valkhof in Nijmegen 🏰
Oh my precious... 💍
For #FindsFriday, a wonderful fragment of a Roman terra sigillata bowl with imprint of a cameo with Mercury on the bottom! Excavated in Vechten (NL) in 19thC, made in Italy c.25 BC-25 AD. In stores National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, VF*1578 @rmoudheden.bsky.social
For #FindsFriday, a wonderful fragment of a Roman terra sigillata bowl with imprint of a cameo with Mercury on the bottom! Excavated in Vechten (NL) in 19thC, made in Italy c.25 BC-25 AD. In stores National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, VF*1578 @rmoudheden.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Oh my precious... 💍
For #FindsFriday, a wonderful fragment of a Roman terra sigillata bowl with imprint of a cameo with Mercury on the bottom! Excavated in Vechten (NL) in 19thC, made in Italy c.25 BC-25 AD. In stores National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, VF*1578 @rmoudheden.bsky.social
For #FindsFriday, a wonderful fragment of a Roman terra sigillata bowl with imprint of a cameo with Mercury on the bottom! Excavated in Vechten (NL) in 19thC, made in Italy c.25 BC-25 AD. In stores National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, VF*1578 @rmoudheden.bsky.social
Koninginnebrug/Queen's Bridge #Rotterdam 🤩
August 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Koninginnebrug/Queen's Bridge #Rotterdam 🤩
Student (again) for 1 night.... for its 75 years jubilee, student housing foundation SSH& #Nijmegen let us sleep in student flat & relive our college days (& nights), complete with bowling, pubquiz & class at 9am. We added a spontanous 'hall party' at no 116. That kitchen should be musealised now 😉
August 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Student (again) for 1 night.... for its 75 years jubilee, student housing foundation SSH& #Nijmegen let us sleep in student flat & relive our college days (& nights), complete with bowling, pubquiz & class at 9am. We added a spontanous 'hall party' at no 116. That kitchen should be musealised now 😉
Mooie tentoonstelling 'Waalschatten' in Museum De Bastei #Nijmegen, over leven op, aan & met de rivier in Romeinse tijd. Fijne objecten, tekst & sfeer, leuke uitleg door riviergod Rhenus: "een zilveren drinkkom. Eh, bedankt. Die had ik nog niet". Aanrader! Nog tot 26 oktober
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Mooie tentoonstelling 'Waalschatten' in Museum De Bastei #Nijmegen, over leven op, aan & met de rivier in Romeinse tijd. Fijne objecten, tekst & sfeer, leuke uitleg door riviergod Rhenus: "een zilveren drinkkom. Eh, bedankt. Die had ik nog niet". Aanrader! Nog tot 26 oktober
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
Working on early/high medieval trading places, exchange, contact? Check out our call for papers for #IMC2026 ! ⛵️
@imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social
@imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Working on early/high medieval trading places, exchange, contact? Check out our call for papers for #IMC2026 ! ⛵️
@imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social
@imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social
We acquired some fancy table knives from c.1450-1650 AD; enjoying summer 'job' to describe, identify imagery, then write about them 🤩
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We acquired some fancy table knives from c.1450-1650 AD; enjoying summer 'job' to describe, identify imagery, then write about them 🤩
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
@rmoudheden.bsky.social
#Paris 🥰 basilica of Sacre-Coeur, cabaret Le Lapin Agile in #Montmartre 🐇, the Moulin Rouge (with new sails) & the balloon in the Tuileries Gardens from the 2024 #Olympics 🇨🇵
July 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#Paris 🥰 basilica of Sacre-Coeur, cabaret Le Lapin Agile in #Montmartre 🐇, the Moulin Rouge (with new sails) & the balloon in the Tuileries Gardens from the 2024 #Olympics 🇨🇵