Aleks Koutny

Going through my photos from the fascinating 'Anatomy of Antiquity: The Body and Movement in Sculpture' #exhibition at the Royal Castle, #Warsaw, which I saw this summer. It explored, among others, the legacy of classical art in 18th and 19th-century Europe.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Just visited the excellent 'John le Carré: Tradecraft' #exhibition at the Weston Library, #Oxford, which presents le Carré's literary work in an international context and draws upon extensive archival material from the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Marie Antoinette Style - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A Shaped by the most fashionable queen in history

More about the exhibition here: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

'Marie Antoinette Style' @vamuseum.bsky.social features objects that are both sumptuous and moving, guiding you through MA's life, dramatic death, as well as her 'afterlives' in art and film, using sensory exhibits in key places. Plenty of stunning jewellery, fans, porcelain and lavish gowns!

Bookings are now open for my 7-week online Art Theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which will run from 27th Oct to 14th Dec 2025. We will explore how art has been written and thought about from classical antiquity to the modern era. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Shahzia Sikander is one of the artists whose work I will be discussing with students on my forthcoming Approaches to Western Art History course at PACE, University of Cambridge: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior

Just opened: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at Cantor Arts Centre
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026

Just visited the recently-opened new building of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) - vast rooms containing a range of 20th and 21st-century art, with stunning views towards the Palace of Culture

Spotted in Ghent: the house where Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer lived when he stayed in the city in the 1520s

Join us this evening for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition!
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The 'Discovering Dürer' #exhibition has just closed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It showcased the printmaking of the Northern #Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer, and gave an insight into the conservation of historic printed images @fitzmuseum.bsky.social

CURIOUS CURES: MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD free #exhibition on until 6th December at the University Library, #Cambridge - highly recommended @theul.bsky.social!

A couple of intriguing literary objects on display at the TREASURED exhibition, now on at the Weston Library, #Oxford: a gold and coral rattle which belonged to the infant Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a portrait of Mary Shelley painted from a death mask @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Great to see so much engagement with this post! Taking a boat to Inner Farne this summer was a long-awaited treat as it wasn't possible to visit the island when I was growing up in the area. Luckily we had excellent weather on the day, following two days when boat crossings had been cancelled.

Culture and cake is a brilliant combination!

Bookings are open for my online art theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which starts in October 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Modern art collection at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge

Farne Islands, Northumberland. Inner Farne is famous for puffins, kittiwakes and arctic terns, as well as the medieval St Cuthbert's Chapel which, surprisingly, has 17th-century woodwork from Durham Cathedral. There's also a monument to Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from a shipwreck in 1838.

Starts tomorrow: my one-week course on art collecting at the International Summer Programme for PACE, Uni of Cambridge.

Ceramic highlights (decorative tiles and 18th-century vases and plates) from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, a port city on the Baltic coast

More about the exhibition here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Just a few more days to catch this free #exhibition - 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' - @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Well worth it!

New open-access publication of historic sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century, free to download from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

Haha!

Malczewski painting becomes Poland’s most expensive artwork after €5.2m sale

A painting by renowned Polish artist Jacek Malczewski has sold for 22.2 million zloty (€5.2 million) – a new record for an artwork sold in Poland.

A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.

Christ teaching the elders in the Temple, from The Small Travel Book (a portable Ruthenian breviary) printed by Francis Skaryna in Vilnius (1522)

Marble fruit - two apples and a pear - right down to some overripe parts, late 16th century. These were used for decoration and also sometimes, apparently, mixed in with real fruit ... for the laugh. Hilarious. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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