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Kent Navalesi ☕️

Historian of in . Author of "The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography and the Laity in Sixth-Century Gaul" (Routledge)

Dad to six cats, coffee enthusiast, art lover, , I post a lot of travel pics 📸.

Grew up in , now in

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  1. RE: mas.to/@carnage4life/116655623

    Sounds like a good way for workers to estimate the base pay they should actually be getting.

  2. For , the tomb of French army general Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934)

    Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, France 🇫🇷

  3. The Fisherman's Family by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1887)

    @artporn

    Art Institute of Chicago

  4. Stamford after Brunch by John Currin (2000)

    @visualarts

    Art Institute of Chicago
    Currin's style has been described as "American grotesque," which I think is apt.

  5. Think I'm gonna start up the relics class again soon. No dates yet, but if you're interested, you can sign up to be notified when registrations open. I'd be happy to answer any questions, and boosts appreciated!

    kentnavalesi.neocities.org/Rel

    @medievodons @histodons

  6. On the team-based FPS games I play, I'm known as The Challenger.

    You have to be a real badass to win with me on your team.

  7. The nice thing about is that people from your past can still stalk you but they'll never figure out how to make an account and comment.

  8. Fedi, I need your help.

    I found this chipmunk sitting still but breathing and he only walks sluggishly when I approach him. Seems to be breathing hard

    What can I do to help the little guy?

  9. Decades of thinking that buses are only for poor people has turned us into a nation of poor people with no buses.

    lemmy.zip/post/64177102

  10. Calvary by the Master of the Death of St. Nicholas of Münster (1470-80) oil on panel

    @traditional_art

    National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  11. "Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real. Here, in the sanitized, over-lit heart of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn't a monster lurking in the shadows; it is the manic, unblinking insistence that actually, there are no shadows at all."

    currentaffairs.org/news/the-ba

  12. St. Michael Slaying the Dragon by Sassoferrato (1640-50)

    @visualarts

    National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virginia

  13. Flintlock Pistols (c 1670-1704)

    @historyartifacts

    Art Institute of Chicago
    Top: Pair of flintlock holster pistols of Prince Georg Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, made by Lewis Barbar (1700-1704)
    Bottom: Flintlock pistol made by Vincenzo Marini (1670/80)

  14. CW: mild nudity, lithograph

    Henri Matisse
    Large Odalisque in Striped Pantaloons (1925)
    Art Institute of Chicago

  15. I need to brush up on my early Islam anyway, but this seemed timely.

    As the title says, basically a literary-cultural analysis of early versions of the Karbala story to show how it became such an important part of Shi'ite identity.

    bookwyrm.social/book/2313521/s

    @medievodons

  16. "Project Jupiter’s two natural gas microgrids will power a 1,700-acre data center used for training AI. Those microgrids are expected to generate nearly twice as much greenhouse gas as both Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined, far exceeding original estimates given to the public."

    abqjournal.com/news/who-are-th

  17. Followup: Gov. Andy Beshear's statement on recent leadership decisions at the University of Kentucky

    @kentucky