Laura Foster

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

your periodic reminder that such a statue is never the man, it’s always just a memory of the man

that communities and societies must have the right to choose whom, what, how and when they wish to remember

and that those choices have to be able to change over time

When people tell me their sick but still “pressing on”

I tell them don’t

Stop pressing

Sickness is your body telling you to stop

Fantastic news! Just the person who is needed

I couldn’t get that shot because there was some furniture in the way, but I had the spirit of Manfredo Tafuri with me

There’s more! Pamphili gardens and a coffee house I need to know more about

With students today at Piranesi’s S. Maria del Priorato, even more spectacular with the fall colors in the surrounding gardens

Is there anything I can tell you about what’s going on in Rome right now?

Astounded by the number of real followers I have been able to accumulate in such a short amount of time here. Hello and thanks to all! I try to curate so rest assured if you are promoting crypto it’s an instant block. Trolls and fake accounts have really begun to seep in the last week

There’s a bit of irony in being able to see this now, as many other generally easily available works of his are currently in restauro - both S. Luigi dei Francesi and S. Maria de Popolo.

I got so lucky. As it happens I was with a group of students at Palazzo Barberini yesterday afternoon and we got to see it just after the press conference.

A projectile point made from blue-and-white Chinese porcelain

In 1693, a Manila Galleon full of goods and bound for Acapulco, wrecked on the coast of what is now Oregon, never reaching its destination. A craftsman from the Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples made this arrowhead (in the Tillamook Pioneer Museum) out of Qing dynasty porcelain from the wreck.

This is my go to a #StarterPack for Architecture and the Built Environment. Please take a look!
go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD

Hmm. I keep trying to repost but it isn’t sticking

Thanks! Done

Ultimately, we are in a new tech-capitalist era where the humanists / humanitarians / liberal arts minds / pro-social designers will need to fight harder than ever to safeguard humanity and nature.

Particularly women, LGBTQ, and Black— everyone who is not a rich white broligarch.

Fantastic list! May I be added as well?

Hi, could you add me, please?

Thinking of a time between c.1490-1525 when painted facades likely dominated the center of Rome. There are just a few scattered examples of this sgraffito left. This on is on via del Moro in Trastevere.

Fellowships and Grants

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Interior view of the Oratory designed by Borromini

Attending a session of the Early Modern Rome 5 conference at the Archivio Storico Capitolino and, lo and behold, Borromini’s Oratory is open!

Description of the Call for papers for the Trastevere M2 conference to be held in April 2025

CFP: John Cabot’s interdisciplinary conference on Trastevere. Happy to answer any questions.

After a hard week with lots of internal turmoil about what will happen to the world in the next months, it’s so nice to see new communities forming on this app. In thanks for new followers, here are a few peaceful images of Montefiascone, on Lake Bolsena, taken last weekend

Description of the Call for papers for the Trastevere M2 conference to be held in April 2025

CFP: John Cabot’s interdisciplinary conference on Trastevere. Happy to answer any questions.

Greetings from the new sofa, aka my new grading station. (Yes, we have a book and cd storage situation on our hands.)

A starter pack for early modernists...
Very incomplete

go.bsky.app/CNhYz12

#earlymodern #earlymodernists #earlymodernsky

While on the Gianicolo last weekend, took the opportunity to visit the Tempietto, which I haven’t had the chance to visit since before the pandemic.

Designed by Antonio Canevari in 1725 to serve as a performance space for poetry. There was once a gallery of portraits of the Arcadians here as well. Many of the portraits are in the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi. The Bosco was heavily reworked in the 19th c. Unclear where the gallery was.

Am I finally migrating here from Twitter? I think so. So here are a few photos from the Accademia degli Arcadi Bosco Parrasio that I took last weekend.

I’m probably the only weirdo who doesn’t photograph the ancient sculpture. But I love the way the palace was restored revealing its histories.