Jacomien Prins
@jacomienprins.bsky.social
Musicologist and Philosopher
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Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
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January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
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Tips on coping from the Renaissance
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Tips on coping from the Renaissance
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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‘We suddenly notice a pair of human legs sticking out of the waves, like an artistic swimmer performing their routine in an Olympic swimming pool.’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the ongoing resonances of Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the ongoing resonances of Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’
Why Bruegel’s Icarus has made such a splash with poets
The painter’s enigmatic scene has inspired poems by Auden and many others, writes Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and it continues to resonate today
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January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
‘We suddenly notice a pair of human legs sticking out of the waves, like an artistic swimmer performing their routine in an Olympic swimming pool.’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the ongoing resonances of Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the ongoing resonances of Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’
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Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
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Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus.
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus.
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
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Do join us on 19 April in London (other locations follow) to discuss why we should be interested in deep history: tinyurl.com/yc6tnvup
Mary Beard Tickets & Tour Dates - Fane
Renowned historian Mary Beard returns to the stage for one night only to discuss her book Talking Classics and to explore why the deep past does really affect us all.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Do join us on 19 April in London (other locations follow) to discuss why we should be interested in deep history: tinyurl.com/yc6tnvup
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Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia - SSD PHIL-02/B - GSD 11/PHIL-02- Cod. Pica incarichipd202...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
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If you are into classical architecture, it looks like the basilica designed by Vitruvius has been discovered in Fano in Italy. Not sure it is quite as it's been hyped (as amazing as Tutankhamun), but important none the less. tinyurl.com/4chwjseu @thetls.bsky.social
The fame of Fano?
Fano is a small town, with a population of around 60,000, about 100 kilometres south of Ravenna on the Adriatic coast. It is a rather sleepy and not very
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January 21, 2026 at 10:01 AM
If you are into classical architecture, it looks like the basilica designed by Vitruvius has been discovered in Fano in Italy. Not sure it is quite as it's been hyped (as amazing as Tutankhamun), but important none the less. tinyurl.com/4chwjseu @thetls.bsky.social
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Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
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Op dit moment werk ik aan een digitale reconstructie van het Maria-altaar (1475-1477), dat is gemaakt door de Utrechtse beeldhouder Adriaen van Wesel. Hij maakte het voor de St. Janskathedraal in Den Bosch. Op de foto hieronder zie je een fragment van dit altaarstuk!
January 12, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Op dit moment werk ik aan een digitale reconstructie van het Maria-altaar (1475-1477), dat is gemaakt door de Utrechtse beeldhouder Adriaen van Wesel. Hij maakte het voor de St. Janskathedraal in Den Bosch. Op de foto hieronder zie je een fragment van dit altaarstuk!
With these cheerful guardian angels by Dieter Huch, I wish you all a happy 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
With these cheerful guardian angels by Dieter Huch, I wish you all a happy 2026!
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Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday 🌟
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday 🌟
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Explore how early modern artists imagined nature.
Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Seeing Green: Nature in Northern European Art, 1550–1680
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December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Explore how early modern artists imagined nature.
Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Heads up, #earlymodern #skystorians! Get your books in for the next SRS Book Prize. Always a marvel to see the wonderful work being produced by scholars of this period.
Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Heads up, #earlymodern #skystorians! Get your books in for the next SRS Book Prize. Always a marvel to see the wonderful work being produced by scholars of this period.
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Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.
Now on display at the Weston Library.
#JaneAusten
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very happy to share my review of Naomi Fisher's excellent book "Schelling's Mystical Platonism," in European Journal of Philosophy
*A must-read for anyone interested in Schelling*
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
*A must-read for anyone interested in Schelling*
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792–1802. By Naomi Fisher Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 248 pp., ISBN: 9780197752883
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
very happy to share my review of Naomi Fisher's excellent book "Schelling's Mystical Platonism," in European Journal of Philosophy
*A must-read for anyone interested in Schelling*
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
*A must-read for anyone interested in Schelling*
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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6 rules of listening from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/05/e...
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
6 rules of listening from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/05/e...
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New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...
Rethinking the Renaissance: Ada Palmer on Myths, Power, and the Future We’re Fighting For
Uncover the reality of the renaissance through conversations with Ada Palmer. What does it reveal about our current struggles?
www.wmnf.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...
On Monday 17 November (17.30-18.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “The Renaissance Theatre of Human Affections: Medical and Moral Reflections Adapted to the Musical Stage” at the conference “Theatre and Medicine in the European Renaissance” hosted by the University of Trier. Be welcome!
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
On Monday 17 November (17.30-18.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “The Renaissance Theatre of Human Affections: Medical and Moral Reflections Adapted to the Musical Stage” at the conference “Theatre and Medicine in the European Renaissance” hosted by the University of Trier. Be welcome!
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wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
In 1922, Brancusi created a dance costume for Lizica Codreanu and invited her to perform a dance to Satie’s Gymnopédies in his studio, surrounded by his sculptures.
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In 1922, Brancusi created a dance costume for Lizica Codreanu and invited her to perform a dance to Satie’s Gymnopédies in his studio, surrounded by his sculptures.
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
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This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
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October 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
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#SomethingBeautiful illuminated capital from a Renaissance songbook in San Marco, Florence
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#SomethingBeautiful illuminated capital from a Renaissance songbook in San Marco, Florence
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Our public seminars return next week, at the new time of 3pm on Thursdays! On 23 October, we're looking forward to hearing from Professor Carolyn Abbate (@harvard.edu) for her talk titled 'Bourgeois Vacation Spot'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our public seminars return next week, at the new time of 3pm on Thursdays! On 23 October, we're looking forward to hearing from Professor Carolyn Abbate (@harvard.edu) for her talk titled 'Bourgeois Vacation Spot'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...