Cassatt was also influenced by Japanese art, as in this lovely print, The Letter (known to my children as 'the Lady Eating Bread') .
Mother & Child, 1880, by Mary Cassatt, American artist, exhibited with French Impressionists; known for her intimate paintings & drawings of women & children, her work was admired by Degas.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
#MothersDay
The Fellows' Garden is now in full bloom
Very pleased to see that the Radegund, Cambridge’s smallest pub, has reopened. But must go back.
Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of the London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
“Either be silent, or say something better than silence.”
Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque artist of Neapolitan school, died #OTD 1673; his desolate, tempestuous landscapes anticipated romanticism & influenced Turner.
‘Philosophy’ 1641, NG London | Apollo & Cumaean Sibyl c 1658, Wallace Collection
Beware the orange faced beast!
BnF Français 958; Frère Laurent d'Orléans, Le Livre des vices et des vertus ou Somme le Roi; 1464; France (Bretagne); f.6v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
#RomanSiteSaturday Inside the Temple of the Capitoline Traid - Jupiter, Juno and Minerva - in the Roman city of Dougga, Tunisia
The three niches at the back probably held the statues of the gods
📸 Me
#archaeology #romanempire #ancientbluesky #photooftheday 🏺
As we have been in London it was expected, nay our duty to visit this medieval bobby dazzler.
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And so I take that as an opportunity to highlight the dangers posed by @deevybee.bsky.social's "four horsemen of irreproducibility": hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...3/n
Before and after the rain this afternoon in East Lothian.
Reminded by the death of Jürgen Habermas of one of the most European public-intellectual moments I remember: in Munich in 2014 to survey the records of an international medical organisation I came across a bookshop window congratulating him on his 85th birthday.
@juergenhabermas.bsky.social
🏺DNA in sediments from the sunken North Sea world of Doggerland. Evidence of temperate tree species several thousand years earlier than expected. Mixing/reworking of sediDNA occurs more readily in sandy sediments than in silty/fine sand contexts.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Deepdale #lakedistrict
Now returned online: this tiny golden girdle book, made around 1540, containing an English verse translation of the Psalms and an added portrait of Henry VIII (Stowe MS 956).
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
#OTD in 1879, Albert Einstein was born 🎉
Here he is enjoying St John’s College gardens, most likely during his Oxford lectureship in 1931.
📷 | St John’s College
Met Museum Now Lets You Explore 3D Scans of Over 100 Objects From Its Collection.
mymodernmet.com/the-met-3d-s...
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
📷 by me
#Archaeology
3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories.
theconversation.com/3d-scanning-...
A phenomenal fern & moss-covered tree & wall at Beddgelert last week, outliers of the ancient Celtic rain forests
#Eryri/#Snowdonia
📷 My own
We are taking you away from your usual medieval guild hall content for some livery hall content.
The Merchant Taylor’s’ Hall in London.
Reader. We dined here last night. 🤯
View of Het Steen & The Rainbow Landscape: pendant morning & evening views of countryside around his manor house Het Steen, c 1636 by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, great Flemish Baroque artist (1577-1640). The morning view with mackerel sky inspired Constable.
National Gallery London | Wallace Collection
The Bible of the working class: Das Kapital, landmark work by Karl Marx, influential German philosopher, economist, ‘father of socialism’, died #OTD 1883.
@britishlibrary @tomgauld.bsky.social
#FindsFriday ‘La Dalle de St Belec’ Discovered in 1900 this schist slab from Brittany 🇫🇷 may be the oldest map in the world. Found in an Early Bronze Age tumulus the engraving appears to be a depiction of the Odet river valley and the La Motta tomb musee-archeologienationale.fr/collection/o...
Ooh it's our Gutenberg Bible, fully digitised: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...
'Wynflaed's Will', the earliest surviving woman's will in British history, made in the 940s. Its bequests include tapestries, jewelry, bedclothes and books for her daughter Æthelflæd.
Cotton Ch VIII 38
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Sheltering from the Deluge, Florence, Italy 🇮🇹
Golden bowl - c. 750-800 CE
A griffin is mauling a goat. Other motifs may have adapted Byzantine, Sasanian & Islamic influences
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One of 23 gold vessels found in Nagyszentmiklós treasure. 1799
Disvovrred Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
In “Silk Roads” exhibition #BritishMuseum
#FindsFriday
Hoping to see Herb Paris in the wild again this year. This one’s from Sowerby’s ‘Botany’ (1790). CCC.47.54 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social
