@jacomienprins.bsky.social
Musicologist and Philosopher
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!
11.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wrapping 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?
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...
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
The Virgin Mary, unusually in red, sheltering kneeling Dominicans under her robe, surrounded by curlicues of blue, green, and gold. On the right you can see some notes and ruled staves.
#SomethingBeautiful illuminated capital from a Renaissance songbook in San Marco, Florence
19.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Professor Carolyn Abbate
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-...
Emily Dickinson's stunning ode to resilience, animated www.themarginalian.org/2018/09/18/w...
10.10.2025 12:04 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Artus Quellinus brought mythic grandeur to the town hall of Amsterdam – now the Royal Palace – with his dramatic carvings, writes Antonia Boström
06.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Heart eyes! A loving bird flaps its wings in the bottom margin of f. 311v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
I'm giving a lecture:
THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:
shorturl.at/Myvgp
It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge
22.09.2025 14:24 — 👍 80 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 3
ESEMP Conference: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today?
12.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Ontdek Constantijn Huygens als dichter, musicus, diplomaat én parfumeur op het Huygens festival in de Oude Kerk in Voorburg op zaterdagavond 20 september. Met muziek van La Sfera Armoniosa olv Mike Fentross en verhalen van Ineke Huysman @huygensknaw.bsky.social www.huygensfestival.nl/nl/programma...
31.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Met het thema ‘museumkunst?’ agendeert het Utrechtse Festival Oude Muziek de vraag wat oude muziek nog kan bijdragen aan de ervaringshorizon van nu. Stel dat het antwoord pijn doet. En dat doet het.
02.09.2025 07:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
Why did Renaissance thinkers retreat into rooms of one’s own—and what did they hope to find there?
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
Our Bach display at Blackwell Hall in the Weston Library celebrates our recent acquisition of an autograph manuscript of J.S. Bach, his cantata for Ascension Day 1725, and looks at the impact #Bach had on the life and work of his No.1 fan, #Mendelssohn.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/bach-a....
Page in the manuscript featuring a music staff and the text of the 'Salve Regina', below is an engraving with a holy person reading a book near a tree with a church in the background. The engraving is pasted in.
Flyleaf of the book with the provenance note reading 'a l'usage de M. Josephine
The centre of the book with two facing pasted in engravings of religious scenes.
Page in the manuscript featuring a French text on Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, in the right corner is an engraving with the holy family, Jesus on the lap of Joseph, while Mary prepares a meal. The engraving is pasted in.
A woman's touch in an #earlymodern handwritten book?
This 17th-century manuscript belonged to M. Josephine, a woman who seems to have left her mark in a unique way, by pasting in 28 different engravings, that speak to individual expression within the pages of the book.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
Reveil & Revolte tells the story of Sour Cream, a wonderful recorder trio that performed more than 100 times between 1971 and 1990. See:
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
A handmade icosahedron. Plato assigned this geometric solid to water. See: www.britannica.com/science/Plat...
08.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Friday 25 April I will give a keynote lecture titled “’Disguised as a Pythagorean’: Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Timaeus“ at the conference ‘The Pythagorean Way’ in Italy. For the conference programme, see: magnagraecia.net/THE-PYTHAGOR...
22.04.2025 08:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In today’s think piece, Jacomien Prins considers the gendered conceptions of cosmic harmony and the power of music in Niẓāmī's Haft Paykar.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
