Dr Francesca Berry (she/her)
@francescaberry.bsky.social
Art Historian| Associate
Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
• 19th-20th C. French art, design & visual culture
• French modernisms
• The Nabis
• Parisian art worlds
• Visual, design & artistic cultures of domesticity
• Feminist & intersectional art historical methodologies
• The historical practices of women artists/art workers
• French modernisms
• The Nabis
• Parisian art worlds
• Visual, design & artistic cultures of domesticity
• Feminist & intersectional art historical methodologies
• The historical practices of women artists/art workers
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
• 19th-20th C. French art, design & visual culture
• French modernisms
• The Nabis
• Parisian art worlds
• Visual, design & artistic cultures of domesticity
• Feminist & intersectional art historical methodologies
• The historical practices of women artists/art workers
• French modernisms
• The Nabis
• Parisian art worlds
• Visual, design & artistic cultures of domesticity
• Feminist & intersectional art historical methodologies
• The historical practices of women artists/art workers
‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.’
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.’
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Today seems as good a day as any to covet Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) given it commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 and its toppling of King Charles X…
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Today seems as good a day as any to covet Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) given it commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 and its toppling of King Charles X…
more art, less war 🙏🏼
A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris.
PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.
A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris.
PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.
October 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
more art, less war 🙏🏼
A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris.
PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.
A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris.
PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025).
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025).
I really enjoyed the vernissage today of the new Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition on print making by the Nabis, Vuillard (the subject of my 2025 book) included. A highlight: a rare test proof in alternative colours of his Pink Interior III, 1896-9.
L: the proof; R: the published print.
L: the proof; R: the published print.
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I really enjoyed the vernissage today of the new Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition on print making by the Nabis, Vuillard (the subject of my 2025 book) included. A highlight: a rare test proof in alternative colours of his Pink Interior III, 1896-9.
L: the proof; R: the published print.
L: the proof; R: the published print.
Paris.
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Paris.
And this fella!
Man U were well fishy.
Man U were well fishy.
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
And this fella!
Man U were well fishy.
Man U were well fishy.
Barcelona 😎
August 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Barcelona 😎
July 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Beautiful scenes.
Chloe Kelly. Legend.
Chloe Kelly. Legend.
July 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Beautiful scenes.
Chloe Kelly. Legend.
Chloe Kelly. Legend.
Louise Bourgeois, The Insomnia Drawings, November 1994 – June 1995.
July 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Louise Bourgeois, The Insomnia Drawings, November 1994 – June 1995.
It’s a Sketches of Spain kinda evening 🎺🔥
June 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s a Sketches of Spain kinda evening 🎺🔥
Thursday research day vibes.
Suzanne Duchamp, Usine de mes pensées, 1920, gouache, ink and watercolours on paper, 45 x 54 cm. Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
Suzanne Duchamp, Usine de mes pensées, 1920, gouache, ink and watercolours on paper, 45 x 54 cm. Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
June 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Thursday research day vibes.
Suzanne Duchamp, Usine de mes pensées, 1920, gouache, ink and watercolours on paper, 45 x 54 cm. Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
Suzanne Duchamp, Usine de mes pensées, 1920, gouache, ink and watercolours on paper, 45 x 54 cm. Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
thank you Enzo Staiola 😔
(Still from Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
(Still from Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
June 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
thank you Enzo Staiola 😔
(Still from Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
(Still from Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
I’m only still on there because Arsenal isn’t on Bsky yet. 😬
Had to unmute both to follow some of the bust up between Trump and Musk but this is just a snippet of it. 😂
Had to unmute both to follow some of the bust up between Trump and Musk but this is just a snippet of it. 😂
June 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I’m only still on there because Arsenal isn’t on Bsky yet. 😬
Had to unmute both to follow some of the bust up between Trump and Musk but this is just a snippet of it. 😂
Had to unmute both to follow some of the bust up between Trump and Musk but this is just a snippet of it. 😂
ARSENAL WOMEN: CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!! 🏆
May 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ARSENAL WOMEN: CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!! 🏆
Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
May 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
Currently nostalgic for Florence (a mere 2 weekends ago) and the warmth of its light.
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Currently nostalgic for Florence (a mere 2 weekends ago) and the warmth of its light.
Also: stazione Santa Maria Novella might be my favourite station. Classy Italian Art Deco.👌🏼
May 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Also: stazione Santa Maria Novella might be my favourite station. Classy Italian Art Deco.👌🏼
ricordi di Firenze ☺️
May 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
ricordi di Firenze ☺️
I woke up in Florence 😊
May 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I woke up in Florence 😊