Dr Chris Higgins

#Ootd is another Dior from the Enchanted Gardens section of #lagalreiedior. It is an embroidered peau de soie evening gown by Maria Grazia Chiuri for the 2023 high jewelry collection, appropriately named "Les Jardins de la Couture," as Victoire de Castellane, the creative director of fine jewelry,

Embroidered cushion cover witj three stylised white roses and leaves on a dark blue background

Art Nouveau embroidered textile design (c.1906) by embroidery artist & Glasgow School member Ann Macbeth #womensart

This ensemble illustrates the underwear worn by stylish women in the late 18th century for #NationalUnderwearDay. To achieve the fashionable silhouette, a woman would wear a shift, stays reinforced with whalebone, and hoops to shape their petticoats. V&A collection. #Fashionhistory

Portrait of a girl, possibly Catherine of Aragon (or Juana, her sister) at age 11. Painted by Juan de Flandes, a Flemish artist in Spain, in 1496. Today is his day.

Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

Lovely essay in the @lrb.co.uk on Renaissance era libraries and their influence
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Just FYI, if you listen to #BBC podcasts and radio while living outside the UK, BBC SOUNDS no longer works for you. Delete the app, download the new BBC app, and try BBC.com for live radio — I’m sorry that this means podcast availability may be delayed by 28 days

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... and here's the complete list: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Three new seminars for 2025/26: African History, Migration & Mobility, and Planetary Histories. Programmes coming soon. Watch this space...

Painting featuring the upper half of a white woman with tall black pointed half, ruff and black dress, looking outwards with hands together

English/French born miniaturist painter Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595 artist who composed 60 miniature books using her calligraphic skill with paintings, portraits, and embroidered covers #womensart

Henrietta Maria by Cornelius Johnson in 1638, poised before some elegant architecture painted by Dutch artist Gerard Houckgeest, whose day is today.

Historical hottie du jour coming to you from Tudor England: Sir Nicholas Carew, master of the horse to Henry VIII. Wonderful miniature by Gerard Horenbout, whose day is today.

Three midwives prepare a bath in a copper basin for newborn St. John

Baby St. John the Baptist getting a bath, detail of Artemisia Gentileschi, The Birth of St. John the Baptist, c. 1633. Oil on canvas, 727/16 × 1015/8 in. (184 × 258 cm). Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Looks amazing. Can’t wait to explore.

Thirty-year-old woman who had her portrait painted in 1549 by Antwerp’s foremost woman artist, Catharina van Hemessen. Her day was today.

Portrait of a young lady; beautiful and elegant later work (c. 1560) by Catharina van Hemessen of Antwerp, whose day is today.

📣 We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.1) has officially been published online! Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance

The Virgin Mary Reading to the Infant Christ Vittore Carpaccio, c.1460–c.1526.

The Courtauld Gallery, #London

Two women riding broomsticks in the margins of a 15th century manuscript

I'm teaching a session on medieval magic and witchcraft today at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, which means I get to show my favorite medieval image!

'Vaudoises' in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des dames, 1451. Beautifully linking heresy (Waldensians), gender, witchcraft and broomstick riding. 🗃️

I neglected to announce this #nuntastic text when it came out:

Moran, S.J., "Women and Artistic Knowledge in the Family: Mechelen Beguinage Grand Mistress Clara Eugenia Brueghel." In Brueghel: The Family Reunion. Ed. Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj, WBooks, 2023.

See independent.academia.edu/SarahJoanMoran

Decorator in today, taking an absurdly long time to paint the bathroom ceiling. I kept having flashbacks to Rex Harrison in The Agony and the Ecstasy, calling up, ‘When will you make an end?’

A shelf of 3 books about Roger Moore, Thomas More, and Henry Moore

In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

Hans of Antwerp
Oil Painting
ca. 1532

This is one of the portraits that Holbein painted of mainly German merchants when he was resident in London, 1526-1528 & 1532-1543. The merchants resided in the Steelyard, which adjoined Dowgate.

(V&A Museum, London)

Can’t wait for this.

Visit V&A East Storehouse · V&A Make new discoveries, explore untold stories and share ideas at V&A East Storehouse. With half a million works, it’s a sourcebook for your creativity.

V&A Storehouse opens on 31 May. Find out more (including how to order an object) here:

Tired of juggling dozens of browser tabs? Take a page from Queen Maria Carolina of Austria—she solved information overload in 1792 with this rotating lectern.

25 May 1586: Philip Sidney writes to Francis Walsingham from Arnhem #otd looking for payment of garrisons, especially that of Flushing/Vlissingen where the people are especially churlish (NPG

Photo of a smiling white woman on a windswept high moorland landscape in a large textile art cloak with patterns and motifs which lifts slightly in the wind

Cape of Empowerment' by and in memory of Louise Gardiner, British embroiderer #womensart #FridayFeeling

“Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.” - Leo X

Blouse ‘Careless Talk’ of printed rayon crepe, decorated with cartoons in square panels. Designed by Fougasse (pseudonym), England, 1940s, VA

‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ blouse of printed rayon crepe, 1940s, designed by Fougasse (satirical cartoonist Cyril Kenneth Bird). Via The V&A here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O82047/...

Many thanks.

@jackieeales.bsky.social Thoroughly enjoyed your lecture, ‘Petitions, Spies & Sieges: The Fortunes of Women in the English Civil Wars’ this afternoon. Could you possibly remind me of the name of the cipher involving holes cut in a sheet of parchment? Keen to try on my students.