#arthistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arthistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Recreating Each 16th Century Children's Game in this Weird Old Painting
New video! Watch as six little characters, each half allegory, all full of folly, puzzle through Pieter Bruegel's 1560 painting "Children's Games", and the surrounding context - be that artistic, political, or historical
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IeCPvlVomwPeerTube:
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Recreating Each 16th Century Children's Game in this Weird Old Painting
New video! Watch as six little characters, each half allegory, all full of folly, puzzle through Pieter Bruegel's 1560 painting "Children's Games", and the surrounding context - be that artistic, political, or historical
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IeCPvlVomwPeerTube:
(Will update with link later) -
Recreating Each 16th Century Children's Game in this Weird Old Painting
New video! Watch as six little characters, each half allegory, all full of folly, puzzle through Pieter Bruegel's 1560 painting "Children's Games", and the surrounding context - be that artistic, political, or historical
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IeCPvlVomwPeerTube:
(Will update with link later) -
Recreating Each 16th Century Children's Game in this Weird Old Painting
New video! Watch as six little characters, each half allegory, all full of folly, puzzle through Pieter Bruegel's 1560 painting "Children's Games", and the surrounding context - be that artistic, political, or historical
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IeCPvlVomwPeerTube:
(Will update with link later) -
Recreating Each 16th Century Children's Game in this Weird Old Painting
New video! Watch as six little characters, each half allegory, all full of folly, puzzle through Pieter Bruegel's 1560 painting "Children's Games", and the surrounding context - be that artistic, political, or historical
YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IeCPvlVomwPeerTube:
(Will update with link later) -
By Robert Henri (1865-1929), Blind Spanish Singer, 1912, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Quote from the artist: “The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” #art #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
From the museum: “ Robert Henri and his wife, Linda, made their first trip to Spain in 1900. They spent six weeks in Madrid, where Henri lingered at the Prado copying paintings by Velázquez. He traveled to Spain several times over the next few years, painting people from all walks of life with the directness that he had learned as a newspaper illustrator. Among his subjects were two blind street singers, who played their guitars in his studio for hours. (Boone, España!: American Artists and the Spanish Experience, 1998)”
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1199180/ Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance — Colossal #ArtHistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #drawing #Entertainment #feminism #Narrative #pastel #SaraAnstis #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/684082/ Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance — Colossal #ArtHistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Design #drawing #Éire #Entertainment #feminism #IE #Ireland #narrative #pastel #SaraAnstis
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How the Victorians covered up naked Bayeux tapestry figures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwizHNnjU8 #ArtHistory #Bowdlerizing
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Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance — Colossal
A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #arthistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #drawing #Entertainment #Feminism #narrative #pastel #SaraAnstis #UK #UnitedKingdom
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I've finished: Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gabriel Kay
This is my first encounter with Guy Gabriel Kay. I can understand why he is so beloved by his fans.
I really enjoyed his writing and his complex and competent characters. He writes so well, he managed to make me enjoy Byzantine court intrigue, not an easy task.
I really loved the historical perspective, and the central part the art of mosaic laying holds within the novel.
I studied history and art history and really connected with these themes as well as the characters.
If you are looking for a fantasy novel, you may be disappointed, as the magical elements only play a small part. though they do eventually represent an important aspect of the overall theme.
This is mainly alt history.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ef5c3355-a637-4569-ae53-025cb30995d5
@bookstodon @audiofiction
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Kids Trends by Riley Walz is like the ngram viewer but for motifs in kids drawings over the last 20 years!
https://walzr.com/kids-trends/
it is based on the corpus of Artsonia, which describes itself as the “largest collection of student art, published by teachers and students from around the world.”
via @flowingdata
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice, Italy by Andrea del Verrocchio (1488)
#art #arts #artist #artists #history #sculpture #sculptures #sculpting #arthistory #statue #statues #artnet #artlover #artlovers #artnet #artwork #design
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HydroArts Conference 2027
16-18 June 2027
Le Mans University, FranceDeadline: 5 October 2026
Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-hydroarts-conference-2027-le-mans-university-france/
#callforproposals #hydroarts #performancestudies #performanceresearch #performingarts #hydrology #arthistory #criticaltheory #oceonography #philosophy #aquaticturn #environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities
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@majnouna Best wishes with this project! I remember you wrote earlier about the Umda manuscripts, Omar the Forger, and testing his recipe for an inexpensive indigo pigment which could substitute for lapis:
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Gironzolando per la casa di Claude Monet a Giverny, si può passare per la bellissima cucina decorata con queste maioliche blu e con le antiche pentole in rame (beh, non so se siano effettivamente quelle di Monet, ma sicuramente sono molto belle!)
Giverny, August 2023
#photography #fotografia #Giverny #Normandy #Normandie #France #ClaudeMonet #Monet #MaisonDeMonet #MonetsHouse #FondationClaudeMonet #MonetsKitchen #kitchen #copper #copperware #interior #interiorphotography #historicinterior #FrenchInterior #FrenchDesign #blueandwhite #Impressionism #Impressionnisme #artHistory #artistshome #museum #travelphotography
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics. When we get around to posting the twenty-four pages from My Favorite Martian Comics, you will be able to combine all the images into a fairly cohesive book with a robust count of sixty pages. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/a-dozen-pages-part-2-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics. When we get around to posting the twenty-four pages from My Favorite Martian Comics, you will be able to combine all the images into a fairly cohesive book with a robust count of sixty pages. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/a-dozen-pages-part-2-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics. When we get around to posting the twenty-four pages from My Favorite Martian Comics, you will be able to combine all the images into a fairly cohesive book with a robust count of sixty pages. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/a-dozen-pages-part-2-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics. When we get around to posting the twenty-four pages from My Favorite Martian Comics, you will be able to combine all the images into a fairly cohesive book with a robust count of sixty pages. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/a-dozen-pages-part-2-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 2 [ZINE]
In this post I have included three more printable images of "A Dozen Pages" for our zine project. These pages first appeared in A Kick in the Eye, which was a collaborative book I made thirteen years ago with eleven other artists. These pages share a thematic cycle with Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch and My Favorite Martian Comics. When we get around to posting the twenty-four pages from My Favorite Martian Comics, you will be able to combine all the images into a fairly cohesive book with a robust count of sixty pages. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/a-dozen-pages-part-2-zine/
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📢 Hallo, liebe Communities!
Frisch veröffentlicht: Eurer wöchentliches Update zu spannenden GLAM- und DH-Events aus dem NFDI4Culture-Kosmos ist da! Bleibt neugierig! 🎉#CultureWeekly: Jeden Montag / Every Monday: 👉️ https://nfdi4culture.de/go/culture-weekly
#NFDIrocks #CultureInformationServices #CultureWeekly #Events
#DH #RDM #Architecture #Design #ArtHistory #PerformingArts #Musicology #MediaStudies #GLAMIllustration: Culture Information Services - Culture Weekly Issue Week 35 2026, CC0
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📍A unicum of Attic pottery.
This Attic red-figure chous (Greek: xoυς) (wine jug), attributed to the Eretria Painter (5th century BC), shows a special scene: a man, crowned with an olive wreath, places his child on an aiora during the Aiora ritual associated with the ancient Athenian Anthesteria festival.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece (Inventory No. ΒΣ 319/VS 319)
#Art #ArtHistorians #ArtHistory #Pottery #Antiquity #Museums #Anthesteria #artists #Archaeology #Athens #Greece
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Night, Near Midnight
This Geranium Lake Properties comic was considered for the sixth day of the Eleven Monsters Holiday but it did not quite fit our criteria for the Red Beast theme. It was red enough, but it was not impeccably beastly. This panel was originally part of a series Yost made to illustrate the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Six Tales from the Glorious Assemblage of Haberdashers by Abby Ashier Chertsey. The third tale in that book ("The Rust-Stained Jug") is about a man named Mike Frick, aka the King of Millers. Mike is neither a king nor a miller; he inherited his title from his father, who was also not a king nor a miller. Mike comes from a long line of men who were known as the Kings of the Mills, yet none of them were kings and not one of them was a miller. Yost borrowed this character with Chertsey's permission, and put Mike Frick the King of Millers into a short story titled "The Fine and Deadly Difference between Zossiyan and Znayossion Yogurts". […] -
A Dozen Pages, Part 1 [ZINE]
Today we are posting the first part of a 12-page addition to last year's zine project, Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch. Some of you might recognize these pages, some of you will not. Most of the "viewers"1 of these pages will have no clue, because most of them are unreal, unalive machine programs laboring under the hysterical pretensions of the Most Wretched Masters of Industry Ever. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a-dozen-pages-part-1-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 1 [ZINE]
Today we are posting the first part of a 12-page addition to last year's zine project, Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch. Some of you might recognize these pages, some of you will not. Most of the "viewers"1 of these pages will have no clue, because most of them are unreal, unalive machine programs laboring under the hysterical pretensions of the Most Wretched Masters of Industry Ever. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a-dozen-pages-part-1-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 1 [ZINE]
Today we are posting the first part of a 12-page addition to last year's zine project, Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch. Some of you might recognize these pages, some of you will not. Most of the "viewers"1 of these pages will have no clue, because most of them are unreal, unalive machine programs laboring under the hysterical pretensions of the Most Wretched Masters of Industry Ever. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a-dozen-pages-part-1-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 1 [ZINE]
Today we are posting the first part of a 12-page addition to last year's zine project, Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch. Some of you might recognize these pages, some of you will not. Most of the "viewers"1 of these pages will have no clue, because most of them are unreal, unalive machine programs laboring under the hysterical pretensions of the Most Wretched Masters of Industry Ever. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a-dozen-pages-part-1-zine/
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A Dozen Pages, Part 1 [ZINE]
Today we are posting the first part of a 12-page addition to last year's zine project, Intrepid Spirits/The Book of Clea and Enoch. Some of you might recognize these pages, some of you will not. Most of the "viewers"1 of these pages will have no clue, because most of them are unreal, unalive machine programs laboring under the hysterical pretensions of the Most Wretched Masters of Industry Ever. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a-dozen-pages-part-1-zine/
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📣 Hallo, liebe Communities!
Im November ist es soweit: Die NFDI4Culture Community trifft sich zum 6. Culture Community Plenary 🤝
📍Wo? 👉 Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
📆 Wann? 👉 09. - 11. November 2026
📝 Was erwartet euch? 👉 Workshops, Vorträge, Peecha Kucha Talks u.v.m.!ℹ️ Weitere Infos 👉 https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6953
#NFDIrocks #CCP6 #CultureCommunityPlenary #GLAM #Architecture #ArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #MediaStudies #DanceStudies #TheaterStudies #Musicology #PerformingArts
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📢 Hallo, liebe Communities!
Frisch veröffentlicht: Eurer wöchentliches Update zu spannenden GLAM- und DH-Events aus dem NFDI4Culture-Kosmos ist da! Bleibt neugierig! 🎉#CultureWeekly: Jeden Montag / Every Monday: 👉 https://nfdi4culture.de/go/culture-weekly
#NFDIrocks #CultureInformationServices #CultureWeekly #Events
#DH #RDM #Architecture #Design #ArtHistory #PerformingArts #Musicology #MediaStudies #GLAMIllustration: Culture Information Services - Culture Weekly Issue Week 34 2026, CC0
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Homage and Memory
Today we making the penultimate (yep I love that word way too much) post in our celebration of the Eleven Monsters Holiday. Our theme for this Geranium Lake Properties retrospective has been "The Red Beast", a theme chosen with no input from the Ta Gosan Jacin. I do not expect or even hope they are aware of our little tribute for 2026. -
Elilim and Kochavim
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Too Many Legs
Today is Day Eight of our Eleven Monsters Holiday for 2026. Our theme for this Geranium Lake Properties retrospective is "The Red Beast". -
Two Vasparians
Day Seven of our retrospective series of Geranium Lake Properties comics, in celebration of the Eleven Monsters Holiday for 2026. -
Charming Galoot
Today is Day Six of our Eleven Monsters Holiday for 2026. Our theme for this Geranium Lake Properties retrospective is "The Red Beast". -
Aurignacian Narrative
Today is Day Five of our Eleven Monsters Holiday for 2026. Our theme for this Geranium Lake Properties retrospective is "The Red Beast".https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/aurignacian-narrative/
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Sreya Derew
Today is Day Four of our Eleven Monsters Holiday for 2026. Our theme for this Geranium Lake Properties retrospective is "The Red Beast". -
Tongues of Fire
Today is Day Three of our Eleven Monsters Festival for 2026. -
Mithymnautica
If you wish to read (or review) information about the Monster Club, this post from last year can function as your gateway to what little I know about that fellowship. In this profoundly calamitous year of 2026, we are observing the Eleven Monsters Holiday of the Ta Gosan Jacin with a retrospective of eleven Geranium Lake Properties comics (today is Day Two), We will post one comic each day, for eleven days, the last day will be August 13, the first day of Ghost Month. Our theme is “The […] -
Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah
c 1660 #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Golconda #Deccan from the coln. of Mary & Cheney Cowles sold by Christies for £292,100.
In 1636, #ShahJahan invaded Deccan & forced upon the Sultan the 'Deed of Submission' which included an increase in Tribute & replacement of #Shia with #Suni #Religion.
This led the local #Artists to incorporate #Mughal styles in their #Paintings as seen in this case.#ArtHistory #IndianHistory #Art #IndianHeritage #History #Histodons #MastoArt
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Eleven Monsters
I have written a tedious amount of inconsequential information about the Monster Club, and I do not feel any great motivation to write more. If you wish to read (or review) that material, this post from last year can function fairly well as your gateway to what little I know about the Ta Gosan Jacin. In this blessedly fearsome year of 2026, we are acknowledging the Eleven Monsters Holiday of the Ta Gosan Jacin with a retrospective of eleven Geranium Lake Properties comics, posting one comic […] -
c1816 #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum of 'Ascetics Encamped outside a Walled Town' #Delhi or #Haryana from the collection of Mary & Cheney Cowles sold by Christies Inc on April 28 for £ 304,800
The album was commissioned by #WilliamFraser a senior administrator of #EastIndiaCompany
This important album contained #Paintings depicting the everyday life in #India, the ordinary life of various groups of people.#Histodons #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #MastoArt #IndianHeritage #Art #History
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Rabbit Magic
Needful Magic, no. 122 Neecful Magic, no. 123 Needful Magic, no. 124 Needful Magic, no. 125 -
The Isle of the Dead (1883) by Arnold Bocklin. The painting is partly based on the English Cemetery in Florence, near where Bocklin had a studio and where his daughter is buried. (Bocklin lost eight of his 14 children). The painting may have also been inspired by Pontikonisi, a lush islet near Corfu boasting a cypress grove and chapel. Other possible sources of inspiration include the forbidding volcanic islet of Strombolicchio off Sicily and St George Island off the coast of Montenegro. Fans of the painting included Sigmund Freud, Lenin and Hitler. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that every Berlin home had a print of the picture. #PhantomsFriday #art #arthistory #folklore #mythology #death #weird #symbolism #graveyard #gothic #history
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Beantoss Mandala Time Ends Today
The last day of Beantoss Mandala Time is not a Jackalopian holiday and I have written no new material. Yesterday, or today, or tomorrow may be the holiday for the Passeggiata of Kalkatura Pumkta, which you can read about at the link provided. Or (also) you may enjoy reading about the holiday called Rakjangrimko, aka Ingrimko Unwa Walks Out, which was celebrated last week, or on July 13 for some people. One day in the future, the two holidays may become a five-day festival. I have been told […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/beantoss-mandala-time-ends-today/
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Two Dilemmas
Included in today's Geranium Lake Properties comic are two dilemmas from The Forty-Nine Dilemmas of Elmer Olpuk, a book written by onetime-Buddhist-monk-now-a-barista Yixilmaq Alkupera. Alkupera borrowed the name of Elmer Olpuk from the Inultaru legend of a hero who is given twelve impossible tasks by an odious man named Uhratambo Drubjoy, who is a corrupt viceroy of the Hahnoqqiplu.1 Elmer Olpuk fails to achieve even one of his tasks. He attempts each of his Twelve Labors with meticulous […]
