@simsta.bsky.social
Renaissance Studies student at the Warburg, London. Interested in gardens from historic and stately, to cotagey and compact.
A rather dramatic hellebore enjoying a brief appearance of the sun. #picsofmygarden
13.02.2026 08:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A day for being inside looking out…
07.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For Her day, my favourite Saint Lucy - Carlo Crivelli 1476
13.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you mean bar end shifters? I’ve just taken some of an old Spa tourer.
13.08.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can you ask Shivaji where he got his t-shirt! Have a great day!
09.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Looking forward to this tomorrow…
23.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood
05.07.2025 19:16 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Also opening this week…
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Christ Church Picture Gallery's next exhibition begins tomorrow and marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525.
17.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Match is great, but found the commentary patronising!
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Today is the feast day of Saint Filippo Neri, who Walter Friedlaender identified as a vital influence on the realism of Caravaggio; “the character of Caravaggio’s later works cannot be fully understood without considering Filippo’s principles and religious activities”.
Madonna di Loreto c.1605
Today is the feast of Saint George, and a good excuse for this wonderful Crivelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
23.04.2025 07:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You try and insert one image in your essay, and it’s like you have set off a formatting explosion! Suddenly, the entire essay is triple-spaced, italic, in some strange font, and all the footnotes have vanished forever!
21.04.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Resurrection of Christ, Carlo Crivelli, 1482
20.04.2025 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In an excellent piece of time management I have just spent an hour finding the right Caravaggio images for my monitor displays wallpaper before I start my next essay…
01.04.2025 09:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Warburg shop is open! 🎉
With lots of lovely items to buy in person when you visit the Institute.
Behind a paywall, sadly.
08.02.2025 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Hoar Stone, Enstone, Oxfordshire (and my bike!).
#standingstonesunday
🎅 Want to try a new activity over Christmas? 🎅
Why not head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like the will of Mary Partridge 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #Skystorians
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
🎨 For a more practice based course, try 'Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts' with @saracharles.bsky.social and Steve Lawes🖌️
Date: June 9-13, 2025!
See more and book here: buff.ly/40yIysh
#Manuscripts #Medieval
Ullswater
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Ullswater
10.12.2024 08:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0✍️ Are you interested in #palaeography but feeling intimidated or not sure how to begin? #medievalsky
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top
London friends! One week from tonight! I’ll be speaking at the IHR in Senate House about a largely forgotten 13th-century prophet, what he said about the Crusades, and how it inspired this gorgeous painted altarpiece. Sign up, if you’ve got the time! www.history.ac.uk/events/alexa...
02.12.2024 16:21 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Early Seventeenth-Century Wills now on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
Facebook just reminded me that ten years ago I was producing Christmas shows, and now I'm at the Warburg. Sadly it didn't caption the image "From panto to Panofsky" Chanced missed, I feel.
22.11.2024 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brights lights, big city - London from the Thames shoreline
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Slightly deep, a bit crisp, fairly even….
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There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
