Dr. Sarah Joan Moran

WHAT.

NO.

I'm trying to remember whether I have ever come across an Open Call for MPI directorships before. In any case, should be a great opportunity for top researchers, in whatever field!

Art in art: self-portrait painting the fiddler of her work Merry Company, 1633, by Judith Leyster, Dutch artist, one of first women artists admitted to Haarlem painters’ guild, baptised #OTD 1609; many of her works were later attributed to Frans Hals or Jan Molenaer. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC | Private Collection

Art in art: self-portrait painting the fiddler of her work Merry Company, 1633, by Judith Leyster, Dutch artist, one of first women artists admitted to Haarlem painters’ guild, baptised #OTD 1609; many of her works were later attributed to Frans Hals or Jan Molenaer. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC | Private Collection

Art in art: self-portrait painting fiddler of her work Merry Company, 1633, by Judith Leyster, Dutch Baroque artist, one of first women artists admitted to Haarlem painters’ guild, baptised #OTD 1609; many of her works were later attributed to Frans Hals or Jan Molenaer.
NGADC | Private Collection

Should add: fully #OpenAccess! 🥳

#HoeraHuizinga!

#MedievalSky #SkyStorians #LowCountries #EarlyModern (cool dissection of how he saw Rembrandt and his attention & care for fellow humans)

Three textured balls of bright blue pigment rest on a solid red surface, creating a vivid color contrast.

Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]

My article "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture" out now in the new special issue of the Early Modern Low Countries journal. Issue is on women, both North & South LC. Check out the other authors' pieces too!
#ArtHistory
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory

emlc-journal.org/article/view...

A painting of a decorated porcelain vase placed on a stone table, with a floral arrangement featuring bulbous pink roses, lily of the valley, honeysuckle, jasmine, among other flowers.

A painting of a white porcelain vase decorated with a green floral design, placed on a stone table. The floral arrangement in the vase features bulbous pink roses, narcissus, orange blossom and garden nasturtium, among other flowers.

Exciting news - Nivaagaards Malerisamling has acquired 'Two flower arrangements' by the Flemish painter Catharina Ykens II! Only 6 works by the artists are known to survive. Ykens II is the first Flemish woman artist in its collection.

via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s. Every warship had a sailmaker who played a vital role in making and maintaining the huge number of sails required to power the ship in all weathers.

#Ageofsail #RoyalNavy #Tallships

Last call!

Deadline is tomorrow (but if you need an extra day or two, let me know...)

The first sentence of this article is wrong. It wasn't a "single country" but a collection of counties, duchies, and other entities that were consecutively under the territorial control of other powers (Burgundy, Habsburgs).

Y'all need to talk to a historian.

How very odd.

that's absurd. pull yourself together man.

Stage with four siting behind a table and one person at a podium. Screen behind shows part of brown university’s main green.

#SHEAR2025 presidential plenary kicks off! Slavery emancipation in the early American republic. @profmsinha.bsky.social introducing Mia Bay, Lin Fisher, @sethrockman.bsky.social ventriloquizing @adamrothman.bsky.social, Jim Oakes.

Twee getekende handen houden protestborden vast tegen een feloranje achtergrond. De linkerhand heeft een lichte huidskleur, rood gelakte nagels en gouden armbanden, en houdt een bord vast met de tekst: “HET IS GEEN FAMILIEDRAMA HET IS FEMICIDE”. De rechterhand heeft een donkere huidskleur, rood gelakte nagels en paarse armbanden, en houdt een bord vast met de tekst: “STOP FEMICIDE”.

Laten we #HetIsGeenFamiliedrama groot maken. Ik ben het echt spuug en spuug zat dat er gem. elke 8 dagen een vrouw vermoord wordt in Nederland (nu weer Gouda) door een partner, ex-partner of iemand die hen begeert en we dat bagatelliseren. Geen drama, gewoon moord: #Femicide!

Mixed media artwork with circle inside a square border with wavey edge, in side are floral motifs and a central blossom with five petals

Métis Rose by contemporary artist Kristi Bridgeman & Métis artist Lisa Shepherd. The five-petal rose represents Métis women. Mixed media: sepia ink, watercolour, pastel sgrafitto, Moose hide, glass beads #womensart

#CFP
Be part of our #RSA2026 panel in San Francisco!

"Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority in Tudor-Habsburg Networks"

Deadline July 24

Share freely!

#WomensHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #Medieval #Catholic #Tudor #Habsburg #XX #Monarchy #Queens #Nobility #Renaissance

#CFP
Be part of our #RSA2026 panel in San Francisco!

"Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority in Tudor-Habsburg Networks"

Deadline July 24

Share freely!

#WomensHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #Medieval #Catholic #Tudor #Habsburg #XX #Monarchy #Queens #Nobility #Renaissance

#CFP
Be part of our #RSA2026 panel in San Francisco!

"Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority in Tudor-Habsburg Networks"

Deadline July 24

Share freely!

#WomensHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #Medieval #Catholic #Tudor #Habsburg #XX #Monarchy #Queens #Nobility #Renaissance

A few more words on this. First, the tremendous vision and work of MacArthur Fellow Gabrielle Foreman, her colleague Jim Casey, and the host of folks working with them @ccp-org.bsky.social has made possible the wide use of the invaluable Colored Conventions materials. 1/ coloredconventions.org

Or, put differently, when was the last time you saw dozens of historians urging each other on not to publish with the largest academic publishers, as these companies have larger profit margins than Meta and Google (or do their practices fit the historical method and ethos)

😂

Lutgardis van Tongeren (1182-1246)
16 juni 💫
Vlaamse maagd en mystica👸
Ingetreden bij de Cisterciënzerinnen werd zij, na een nachtelijk koorgebed, omhelsd door de Christus van het crucifix op haar kamer 💞
Verso gravure: bit voor Marigreta(?) Raterink 1692 🤩
#devotieprenten #catharijneconvent

Choirstall woodcarving of the Pentecost, with tongues of fire descending upon the apostles, detail, Cathedral of Amiens, 1508-1519.

Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting offered for sale in London for £1m to £2m David with the Head of Goliath, fully attributed to the artist in 2020, will headline Sotheby's Old Master evening auction on 3 July

Signed "David with the Head of Goliath" by Artemisia Gentileschi coming up for sale at Sotheby's in London

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!

Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

📅 Morgen 👉 ‘Van marge naar middelpunt’: onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals over de studie naar vrouwen uit de periode tussen 1500-1800, van Amalia van Solms tot naamloze vrouwen uit archieven.
🕔 17:00 | 📍 SPUI25 of online
🔗 spui25.nl/programma/va...

Maria of Aragon, elder sister of Catherine of Aragon depicted beside the west doorway of the church at the monastery of St Jeronimo in Lisbon. As the second wife of Manuel I (widower of her elder sister), she was almost continually pregnant. Her husband later married her niece

spending time with the glorious full color copy of Maria Sibylla Merian’s “Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium” at the Linda Hall Library. Includes Merian’s illustration of that grossest of S. American animals: the Suriname toad. The eggs sink into the females back after mating & hatch from there

Handwritten transcript of a payment made to Jan Herrinck: "gelevert bockevelle tot een onderkleet als volght. Aen 4 boecken vellen die weeghen 5 a 6 onsen het pont 5 gul comt".

A handwritten transcript for the payment to a tailor: "Aen den kleermaecker van de Abdije betaelt voor het maecken van de kappecte ende voor het maecken van het boecke leeren onderkleet samen 15 gulden".

Complete page in the ledger with the transcripts of payments made in 1682 by Balthasar II Moretus to celebrate his son Mechior's entry in the St. Michael's Abbey.

A wearable piece of #BookHistory!

I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.

Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1