Pericles' Tripod

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thanks for sharing your recipe! I will try one day, with no sugar, for I am diabetic...

yummy and aesthetically welcoming 😍

Nice 6-month part-time internship at Schloss Kyburg!

For anyone interested in #medieval heritage & #museums. 🇨🇭

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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@rolpheygibson.bsky.social

Our friend the Ukrainian novelist Andriy Lyubka has made the decision to voluntarily mobilize. He is now off to join his division of the Ukrainian armed forces. Please send all possible good karma to Andriy, to his wife, Yulia, and their young children. It's long past time for the good guys to win.

For #WallPaintingsOnWednesday these lovely c. 1900-20 paintings in St Mary Moorfields RC, #London that @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social has kindly informed me are by George Hyde Pownall, who also decorated St Patrick in Soho.

and this president has never wanted to serve in the army... he is not the most competent leader either...

Round glass bead with a green base color, featuring a portrait of a woman with a necklace framed in red on a blue background.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD.

📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

War memorial, left, in St Bartholomew the Great, London.

I liked the darkness of this magnificent church, its rugged ancient beauty being perhaps its finest feature.

Avon Carrow, Avon Dasset. #Warwickshire Home of John and Valerie Profumo. That name might sound familiar. Profumo was MP for Stratford upon Avon from 1950-1963. His career ended after a sexual relationship with Christine Keeler, a 19year old model.

Like Mother Like Daughter - many congratulations to you both and both of you are paradigmatic 👍

Twilight In The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas

Your vivid description travels across time and space!
It is inspiring to read and will google Van Gogh's work later today! Thanks!!

View from ground floor of vomitorium - passageway around the amphitheatre in Arles, showing arches in upper storey above it where floor no longer there. Architectural columns, arches and decorative features remain. With light flowing in from right through upper storeys, a web of shadows and brighter highlights emerges around the passageway ahead onto white stonework. Iron fencing/gates has been inserted in between columns.

#RomanSiteSaturday 🏺
Atmospheric, shifting shadows around the #Roman amphitheatre in Arles.
Not keen on the bullfighting that still goes on, but site's a reminder that after bullfighting season in 1888 Van Gogh painted the crowds at the Arena from memory while living in nearby Yellow House w Gaugin.

Statuette, Brother Cornelis Van der Tyt, carved boxwood, Netherlands, 1562

(V&A Museum)

What I love abut this is that Van der Tyt probably commissioned this piece to be in the late 15thC style.

A little longing for the time before the religious divisions of his time?

Good Day!
This artist has been brought to my attention as an example of the recent weather in London. Yes indeed it has been very Verpilleux!
Tower Bridge by Emile Antoine Verpilleux 1912
Linocut printed in colour
Many thanks to @fnuth.bsky.social‬

Our English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare webinars continue! On 2 Feb Emma Smith will welcome guest Hailey Bachrach to explore Richard II.

They will discuss the play & how we might approach it differently in the 21st century, followed by Q&A. All welcome!

shakespeare-webinar-richard-ii.eventbrite.co.uk

#FontsOnFriday & the font at Hereford Cathedral
Believed to be completed around the same time as the nave ~1140
The lions at the base are a later c14 addition

The mutilation of the faces likely a product of the civil war

Large dark reddish brown wooden door in form of pointed arch, with smaller one (a wicket gate or door) set inside. The wood on both is set with iron studs, and larger one has three iron hinges. Stonework is evident behind and above.

#AdoorableThursday
The door(s) from Cheyneygates passageway to Westminster Abbey's cloisters opens to 14th C Abbots (now Dean's) Court.

The courtyard gives access to Abbot's Hall (now mainly Westminster School's dining hall), Jerusalem Chamber + Jericho Parlour and Abbot's/now Dean's quarters.

Reform UK support drops to nine-month low in new YouGov poll "It is part of a broad downwards trend in Reform support"

It is funny how Reform support is cratering just as all the proper bottom feeders come on board. Stupidity? Causation? Karma?

FRAGMENT OF FRIEZE, C. 120 CE. BASILICA OF NEPTUNE This piece of Luni marble was found following demolitions for the isolation of the Pantheon from the later buildings attached to it, in the late C19. It's part of the long frieze going around the huge hall called the Basilica of Neptune, initially built by Agrippa and subsequently rebuilt by Hadrian, retaining the same marine imagery. A drawing around the fragment indicates the missing elements. Pairs of evil Roman dolphins seem to be discussing attack plans, with their heads downward and tails up. A sort of palmette separates them. A trident stands atop a shell which divides this dolphin from a mirrored version of itself on the other side. These marine elements refer to the triumph of Augustus at the sea battle of Actium. Above, we have an excellent series of Roman decorative frames: first, a Lesbian kymation, then dentils, then a row of beads, and at top an egg and dart motif.

#ReliefWednesday reintroduces us to those toothy charmers, evil #Roman #dolphins, on the #frieze of the #BasilicaofNeptune at the back of the #Pantheon in #Rome. These marine elements, including shells and tridents, allude to the victory of #Augustus at the sea battle of #Actium. #AncientBluesky 🏺

1st interior view of St Bartholomew the Great. It felt very ancient, so peaceful (I was one of a handful of visitors) and it had a wonderful smell of age but not neglect.

The church is the surviving eastern portion of the church of the former Augustinian Priory founded 1123. @iangrebe.bsky.social

Professor Emma Smith awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’.

Find out more about the project on our website:

Welcome to BlueSky if you’re new and ex-X - I recall it was quiet here but it’s a much healthier place. Look out for ‘Starter packs’.

Autumn Shadows The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on linen

Blockley, #Gloucestershire, on a grey day for #SteepleSaturday, with its C18th tower by Thomas or Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden - all plain classicism in the first three stages, then suddenly gothic frou frou appears on the top stage!

A domestic scene at Stanton Harcourt, #Oxfordshire, for #AdoorableThursday, the watering can quietly awaits its duties as Spring gets into gear by this soft C12th door - note the marks scratched on the right - a mass dial? Or?

View of cafe floor with empty tables and chairs and Godwin Victorian tiles

An unusual #TilesOnTuesday posy from #Cardiff, somewhat marred by my coat! Not many cafes - this is Brodies Coffee in one of Cardiff Castle's gatehouses, complete with tiles by Godwin's of Lugwardine! Good coffee and a superb cake, too.