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tksst
TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · 2h ago
💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📜🧑‍🌾 An animated short #film dispels common #myths about women in the #MiddleAges. Beyond working fields and running shops, #medieval women managed large estates and governed land as nuns while contributing to #science, #politics, and trades. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/illuminated-lives-a-brief-history-of-womens-work-in-the-middle-ages #animation #art #arthistory #culture #europe #farming #food #history #illustration #medicine #nationalfilmboardofcanada #religion #textiles #weaving #womeninstem #tksst #video
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tksst
TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · 1d ago
💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📜🧑‍🌾 An animated short #film dispels common #myths about women in the #MiddleAges. Beyond working fields and running shops, #medieval women managed large estates and governed land as nuns while contributing to #science, #politics, and trades. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/illuminated-lives-a-brief-history-of-womens-work-in-the-middle-ages #animation #art #arthistory #culture #europe #farming #food #history #illustration #medicine #nationalfilmboardofcanada #religion #textiles #weaving #womeninstem #tksst #video
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virtuosew
Rachel Wright @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz · 5d ago
Not quite sure how to hashtag this... I have a reference in a book to "the Devon vine pattern" - judging by context, a carved design. Naturally my online searches are full of Spoonflower pages and interiors. Can any historians of art and design in the UK help? #AskFedi #Devon #HistoryOfArt Edit: #MastoArt #carving #ArtHistory #ArtHistoryMatters #WoodCarving #art #design
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LauraJG
Laura G, Sassy 70’s @LauraJG@deacon.social · 4d ago
Your art history post for today: by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), “The Course of Empire: Destruction,” 1836, oil on canvas, 39 1/4 × 63 1/2 inches (99.7 × 161.3 cm), collection of The New York Historical. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting From the museum: ‘On August 30, 1836 the artist wrote to his friend and fellow artist Asher B. Durand "I have been engaged in Sacking & Burning a city ever since I saw you & am well nigh tired of such horrid work." The vainglorious city that Cole depicted in The Consummation of Empire has fallen to a savage enemy, and the critic for the New-York Mirror lauded Cole's critique of imperial rule, agreeing with the artist's depiction that "[s]uch is the merited downfall of all the empires which the earth has heretofore known." Instead of the statue of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, that kept watch over The Consummation of Empire, a headless colossal figure taken from the Louvre's Borghese Warrior witnesses the rapacious acts of the invading army. Cole was likely influenced by the English painter John Martin's panoramic scenes of apocalyptic disaster, and he no doubt knew that his depiction would bring to mind the terror and destruction wrought in New York by the Great Fire of 1835. Unlike the other paintings, here Cole's signature is audaciously large and carved in slashing letters, almost like an act of vandalism, on the pedestal of the ruined statue at the right.’
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historyofart
History of Art @historyofart@mastodon.art · 5d ago
Estes Park, Colorado (1867) is a breathtaking masterwork by Albert Bierstadt, currently held in the prestigious White House Collection. Painted during the peak of his career, this work captures the majestic serenity of the Rocky Mountains, specifically the lush valley that would eventually become one of America's most beloved national parks. https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/estes-park-colorado-1867-albert-bierstadt.html #art #ArtHistory #Colorado #vintage #FediGiftShop
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NMARoulette
NationalMuseumAust Roulette @NMARoulette@zirk.us · 5d ago
Cronulla Beach, near Sydney. A postcard featuring a coloured black and white photograph of a beach scene with buildings on a headland in the background. Printed text on the front … Ink, Paper Cronulla Beach, Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/213602 -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
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historyofart
History of Art @historyofart@mastodon.art · Jul 18, 2026
Reverie (In the Days of Sappho) by John William Godward (1861-1922). Godward specialized in portraying women alone in settings suggesting antiquity, usually decorative, dark-haired beauties in diaphanous gowns created with ingenious contrasts of colors and flesh tones. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/reverie-in-the-days-of-sappho-1904-john-william-godward-1861-1922.html #art #ArtHistory #antiquity
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LauraJG
Laura G, Sassy 70’s @LauraJG@deacon.social · Jul 17, 2026
Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles White (1918–1979), “General Moses and Sojourner Truth,” 1954, wolff carbon pencil and white chalk over traces of graphite pencil, 27 7/8 in x 38 inches, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, ©The Charles White Archives. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #BlackHistory #drawing From the museum: ‘Charles White’s 1954 drawing General Moses and Sojourner Truth, represents two famed African American women who fought for equality in different ways. Harriet Tubman is presented in the guise of “General Moses,” grasping a staff like the one Moses used to part the Red Sea. The intellectual nature of Sojourner Truth’s writings and speeches in support of abolitionism and women’s rights is suggested through her upward gaze, in contrast to Tubman’s direct engagement with the viewer.’
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GettyRoulette
Getty Roulette @GettyRoulette@zirk.us · Jul 16, 2026
St. Francis. From a supposedly unique etching by Murillo. -- Date: 1845–1846 Creator: Nicolaas Henneman, British Size: 8.6 × 6 cm Material: Salted paper print from a paper negative -- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/106S8M -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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NMARoulette
NationalMuseumAust Roulette @NMARoulette@zirk.us · Jul 16, 2026
Buchanan Hospital, matron and nursing staff Unused postcard featuring a black and white photograph labelled "BUCHANAN HOSPITAL / MATRON / + / NURSING STAFF". Ink, Paper https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/31386 -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
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abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange · Jul 15, 2026
Happy Birthday Rembrandt #netherlands #leiden #rembrandt #arthistory
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NMARoulette
NationalMuseumAust Roulette @NMARoulette@zirk.us · Jul 14, 2026
Postcard of Joe Beckett vs Georges Carpentier A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a boxing ring with two boxers positioned in the center in the midst of a fight. The text reads in… Cardboard, Ink Halifax, West Yorkshire, England https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/153615 -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
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GettyRoulette
Getty Roulette @GettyRoulette@zirk.us · Jul 13, 2026
Untitled -- Date: 1950 Creator: Henry Holmes Smith, American Place: United States Size: 35.3 × 27.7 cm Material: Gelatin silver print -- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1097VD -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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quadrivial
quadrivial, mostly water @quadrivial@beige.party · Jul 12, 2026
Just learned about a neat art history online game based on items at The Met in NYC: https://anthropeum.com/ #games #arthistory
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NMARoulette
NationalMuseumAust Roulette @NMARoulette@zirk.us · Jul 11, 2026
Town Hall, Sydney. A postcard featuring a coloured black and white photograph of a building with a clock tower on top of it. Printed text on the front of the postcard de… Ink, Paper Australia https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/209709 -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
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LauraJG
Laura G, Sassy 70’s @LauraJG@deacon.social · Jul 07, 2026
By Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), "Harriet Tubman," 1931, oil on canvas, 54 × 72" (137.1 X 182.9 cm), Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C. #arthistory #blackhistory #blackhistory #blackart #blackartist #art #painting #oilpainting From the Camden Civil Rights Project: 'Douglas uses modernist imagery to depict the slave era heroine, Harriet Tubman, who was responsible for leading more than three hundred slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. Douglas wrote that he portrayed Tubman "as a heroic leader breaking the shackles of bondage and pressing on toward a new day." Behind her and stretching back symbolically to Africa are the black men and women who toiled and prayed through three hundred years of servitude. "The group of figures to the right... symbolizes the newly liberated people as laborers and heads of families. The last figure symbolizes the dreamer who looks out towards higher and nobler vistas, the modern city, for his race. He represents the preachers, teachers, artists, and musicians of the group. The beam of light that cuts through the center of the picture symbolizes divine inspiration.”’
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GettyRoulette
Getty Roulette @GettyRoulette@zirk.us · Jul 06, 2026
Comb Decorated with Three Female Figurines -- Date: 4th century A.D. Creator: Unknown, Romano-Egyptian Place: Egypt Size: 11.2 cm Material: Wood -- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103ZGX -- #Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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artbeforenoise
Art Before Noise @artbeforenoise@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026
The cover of Patti Smith’s Horses is a lesson in the power of the "anti-performance". Shot by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1975, it bypassed the industry’s obsession with "approachable" female artists in favor of something raw and present . Fifty years later, it lives in museums as one of the great works of 20th-century photography. ⚡️ https://www.artbeforenoise.com/horses-patti-smith-album-cover/ #PattiSmith #MusicHistory #ArtHistory #Vinyl
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nvo987
NVO987 | Nicholas Van-Orton @nvo987@mastodon.social · Jul 03, 2026
#NVO987 #ArtHistory #Culture 📰 The Best Hotels in Istanbul, From Bosphorus Palaces to Intimate Boutiques There’s never a bad time of year to visit Istanbul—here, find Vogue’s pick of the best hotels in Istanbul, from the grand palace stays that line the shores of the Bosphorus, to buzzy outposts of Soho House and the Peninsula within the city’s central districts. 🔗 https://www.vogue.com/article/best-hotels-in-istanbul
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