John Sabapathy
@jwwsabapathy.bsky.social
Professor of history @uclhistory.bsky.social + co-convenor @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social. Editor at @enghistrev.bsky.social.
Institutions, rationalities, environments, mostly medieval.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8r9yeh + https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/.
Institutions, rationalities, environments, mostly medieval.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8r9yeh + https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/.
Bowie is quite right in this v. good article.
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Bowie is quite right in this v. good article.
It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck.
Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck.
Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
Henrietta Leyser & the much missed Jinty Nelson's editors' preface for the series has not dated, despite Brexit, Ukraine, or indeed, the Middle East.
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Henrietta Leyser & the much missed Jinty Nelson's editors' preface for the series has not dated, despite Brexit, Ukraine, or indeed, the Middle East.
Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).
A spur to others!
A spur to others!
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).
A spur to others!
A spur to others!
A bad photo from the Scrovegni chapel
Is the only real photo there can be.
Since
the blues, the blues,
the golds
the reds
the green earth underneath it all
are already fading and flaking in your memory
while the crowd and Christ argue
about whether Lazarus is dead –
or not.
Is the only real photo there can be.
Since
the blues, the blues,
the golds
the reds
the green earth underneath it all
are already fading and flaking in your memory
while the crowd and Christ argue
about whether Lazarus is dead –
or not.
May 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A bad photo from the Scrovegni chapel
Is the only real photo there can be.
Since
the blues, the blues,
the golds
the reds
the green earth underneath it all
are already fading and flaking in your memory
while the crowd and Christ argue
about whether Lazarus is dead –
or not.
Is the only real photo there can be.
Since
the blues, the blues,
the golds
the reds
the green earth underneath it all
are already fading and flaking in your memory
while the crowd and Christ argue
about whether Lazarus is dead –
or not.
The city the city the alien alien
May 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The city the city the alien alien
A final image, a painting I’ve been waiting to see a long time, the Master of St Giles’ miracle of the hind.
What a triumphant rehang at the National Gallery!
What a triumphant rehang at the National Gallery!
May 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A final image, a painting I’ve been waiting to see a long time, the Master of St Giles’ miracle of the hind.
What a triumphant rehang at the National Gallery!
What a triumphant rehang at the National Gallery!
From the same room, another ‘most disturbing painting’ - Bosch’s mockery of Christ, v unheimlich. Everything about it is /wrong/. If Michael Haneke painted the mockery of Christ it’d look like this.
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
From the same room, another ‘most disturbing painting’ - Bosch’s mockery of Christ, v unheimlich. Everything about it is /wrong/. If Michael Haneke painted the mockery of Christ it’d look like this.
Back in the Sainsbury Wing, from the northern renaissance room, surely one of the most disturbing adoration of the magi ever painted by Pieter #Breugel
There’s a totally alien story actually going on here like something out of Alexei German’s Hard to be a God.
There’s a totally alien story actually going on here like something out of Alexei German’s Hard to be a God.
May 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Back in the Sainsbury Wing, from the northern renaissance room, surely one of the most disturbing adoration of the magi ever painted by Pieter #Breugel
There’s a totally alien story actually going on here like something out of Alexei German’s Hard to be a God.
There’s a totally alien story actually going on here like something out of Alexei German’s Hard to be a God.
Rousseau’s perfect meal
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rousseau’s perfect meal
Monet almost out-Cezanning Cezanne.
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Monet almost out-Cezanning Cezanne.
Wow, an immediately amazing new still life room, Courbet, Zurbarán, Monet (have I seen this ever before?, a private loan), Treck, Kalf, Rousseau.
#national-gallery
#national-gallery
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Wow, an immediately amazing new still life room, Courbet, Zurbarán, Monet (have I seen this ever before?, a private loan), Treck, Kalf, Rousseau.
#national-gallery
#national-gallery
Poussin and Claude rehung
May 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Poussin and Claude rehung
Two of my favourite paintings in the whole gallery, campagna landscapes by Poussin, slightly sadly not in their old quiet room but cleverly complemented by Claude landscapes
May 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Two of my favourite paintings in the whole gallery, campagna landscapes by Poussin, slightly sadly not in their old quiet room but cleverly complemented by Claude landscapes
From the ‘illusion’ room, van der Weyden’s workshop.
A colleague once told me I look like this guy.
A colleague once told me I look like this guy.
May 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
From the ‘illusion’ room, van der Weyden’s workshop.
A colleague once told me I look like this guy.
A colleague once told me I look like this guy.
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A glorious Venice room!
Bellini’s bad Cathars- Peter Martyr’s martyrdom
Bellini’s bad Cathars- Peter Martyr’s martyrdom
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A glorious Venice room!
Bellini’s bad Cathars- Peter Martyr’s martyrdom
Bellini’s bad Cathars- Peter Martyr’s martyrdom