Allison MacDuffee

A picture of a book cover sitting face out on a shelf of books about women artists, all but one of which are shown spine-out.

Seen in the wild - Sofonisba Anguissola, by Cecilia Gamberini, is at the shop of the National Museum of Women in the Arts!

shop.nmwa.org/collections/...

The book is in the series "Illuminating Women Artists," published in the UK/ROW by @lhartbooks.bsky.social and in N Amer by Getty Publications.

Madonna w her almost impossibly cute child before a rather proto-Leonardo landscape. By Fra Filippo Lippi, whose day was today.

Condimental crisis?

Ya think? #EglintonCrosstownTO

Portrait of Anna Boch holding a splendid neo-Impressionist palette, by Théo van Rysselberghe (1892), and an atmpospheric work by Anna Boch herself, titled Evening (1891).
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.

Awww.

I don’t know why we don’t call them puppy naps

A Halloween skeleton dog decoration. The dog sits in a yard next to a tree trunk and a small rectangular black object..

Crawford Lake A quiet lake in Ontario is making a lot of noise.Sediments from the bottom of a small lake in Ontario are revealing a remarkable record of our impact on the planet.Just outside Toronto, Ontario lies a...

On now until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.

www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...

Saint-Lazare Station, Track Coming out - 1877
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8989

Nefs or ship-shaped table adornment first half of 17th century, Augsburg (Abraham Werner, Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

Filippo Lippi's wonderfully strange double portrait, 1440. He's not looking at her but into the empty space behind her. Her sleeve spells Faithful - but to whom? Great enigmas on Lippi's day.

A gravel covered rail trail bordered by a mixed Forest, evergreens and colourful deciduous trees. A bright blue sky for that orange blue contrast combo

A happy cyclist! Srsly, this was not a selfie smile. It was the look on my face when I was taking a photograph of some leaves and decided to switch to portrait mode

Basking in the glow of a bike ride on an easy trail on a beautiful fall day.

I'm just here to say thanks to those who built the Chain of Lakes trail and the BLT trail, those who volunteer to maintain them, and the governments who support them.

The trails were full of walkers, runners, bikers! 😘

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

This takes me back to when I was a school library monitor in Sixth Form and allowed to log on to the librarian’s computer, which was one of the few with a reliable internet connection. Of course, we used it for important things…

2/2 Unusually healthy mother-child relationship in this Madonna, also w/ totally fab architecture. By Fra Filippo Lippi, whose day is today.

Landscape with Small Stream

Landscape with Small Stream
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/15245

3/3 Another amazing tondo by Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna & Child with Scenes from the Life of Saint Anne. Giving grandparents their due!

By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!

The Gleaners

The Gleaners
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16381

3/3 Fra Filippo Lippi (a monk, n.b.) stricken by love for his model, as imagined by Paul Delaroche in 1822. Crazy French romantics! I'm sure it wasn't really like that. Or maybe it was.

Solemn and forbidding Saint Anne Trinity, 1424. Granny is not a benign person. Mum is detached. Baby J is nervous. By Masolino, whose day was today.

Ride route

Scenes from an evening long ride. So warm. Such sunset. Such moon. 1/-

An extremely elaborate watch made c. 1640 - 1650 by David Bouguet, a French Huguenot resident in #London (British Museum)

A reminder that even during some pretty unsettled years luxury trade continued.

Dog giving side-eye about the collar.

Got some fun Oxford rooftop snaps on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 400 film! 📸

The Map Center Presents: How Maps Lie Join Andrew Middleton of The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI for a fun and informative talk on how maps tell all sorts of stories. Learn how historical and contemporary maps are...

If you're in the Boston area and you want to see some cool maps and learn about why we shouldn't always trust them, join me for my library talk "How Maps Lie" this friday! newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/14866807

When Facebook does niche, it does niche well.

The COLOUR exhibition at the Royal Pavilion finishes soon, but I have one more #ColourConversation up my sleeve:
Join me on 11 October, 11am for a talk on colour in the Royal Pavilion.
There will be Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow, Chinese Vermilion and more!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/johndi...

A red brick row house with a blue giant squid Halloween decoration on all the windows

IT’S BACK. 🦑