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@crumbio.com Oct 5, 2026, 5:01 PM

Carolingian sacred art so conceptually bold it still feels modern over 1,200 years later. ✝️🌟
The Rabanus Maurus Wall Calendar — devotional artistry of extraordinary spiritual depth.
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/tnf617tzhv
#IlluminatedManuscript #ArtHistory

@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:00 PM

St. Mark’s Basilica was a living workshop in 1253, where Byzantine tradition met emerging Gothic ambition. Seeing those golden mosaics catch the Venetian light is a reminder that medieval craftsmanship was nothing short of magical. #ArtHistory #Venice

@artinfilm.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:14 PM

Which movie scene is secretly a painting?

Forrest Gump – Wyeth's "Christina's World"
The Dreamers – the Venus de Milo
The Truman Show – Magritte's "Architecture in the Moonlight"

Which one did you spot first?

#ArtHistory #ArtInFilm #Movies

@ruskinsociety.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:04 PM

🇨🇭🎨
A View of Geneva, Switzerland

In 1854, #Ruskin sketched this corner of Geneva with just a few washes of colour and a remarkable eye for architectural detail. During that trip he also visited Interlaken, Thun, Lucerne, Chamonix, Lausanne & Fribourg.

#Watercolour #ArtHistory

Watercolour, pencil and ink drawing by John Ruskin showing a quiet urban view in Geneva, Switzerland. A group of closely packed historic buildings occupies the centre of the composition, featuring pale stone walls, pitched roofs and several small towers and chimneys. The architecture is rendered with fine pen lines and soft washes of cream, beige and grey, while touches of blue surround the upper buildings, suggesting distant landscape or sky. The foreground is lightly sketched with minimal detail, drawing attention to the clustered structures. Ruskin's precise observation of architectural forms contrasts with the atmospheric, unfinished edges of the scene. Signed and dated "Geneva/JR.1854" at lower right. Medium: pencil, pen and black ink with watercolour, heightened with white. Dimensions: 16.5 × 22.9 cm.

@laurajg.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:48 PM

#art #arthistory #hispanicart
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@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:43 PM

In the Studio by Marie Bashkirtseff, 1881, Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Fine Arts (Dnipro, Ukraine)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Realism

For more on this work and its artist, see www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...

@ambulatoryarchives.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:19 PM

Majoli’s Blueboys series is a rumination on illness, loss, and history via images born of liberation, an attempt to locate and document a period when queer political and sexual identities became visible to a larger public.

#onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

@busterjustis.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:53 PM

Classic modern California art from David Hockney. Vintage copy of the Retrospective show at LACMA. Collectible. Beautiful book for your collection. Find it here: etsy.me/1ogN7ly #etsy #artbook #arthistory #DavidHockney #LACMA #CaliforniaArt #modernart #vintagebook #art

@worldofartbysue.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:49 PM

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760 – 1849), “One Hundred Ghost Stores in a Haunted House”, c. 1790. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Story in ALT.
#arthistory #art #Hokusai #GhostStories

Remember sitting around a campfire at night and telling ghost stories to scare your friends? Well, in the Edo period (17th to 19th century) the Japanese had a similar activity called “Hyakumonogtari kaidankai” in which participants told scary stories in a circle lit by one hundred candles. One candle was extinguished for each story told, and each extinguished candle was supposed to open a supernatural channel that allowed spirits to return to the living world. And if you are a fan of Japanese horror stories and movies, you are well aware that Japanese ghost stories can be quite frightening and very gory. Hokusai (yes, the same artist who gave us the wonderful “Great Wave of Kanagawa” woodblock print) also produced a series of yurei-zu prints of ghosts (we will see some of those in this month’s theme). “One Hundred Ghost Stories in a Haunted House” is a print showing a house filled with beasts, phantoms and demons, presumably summoned by the seated men playing the ghost story game. Hokusai, it turns out, was fascinated by the supernatural world.

@da-vinci2026.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:15 PM

The horizon is not a line. It is a slow surrender of color, and the painter who draws it sharp has never truly looked.

#arthistory #renaissance

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:10 PM

Read about the wonderful 'Museo Benozzo Gozzoli' in Castelfiorentino which houses a detailed reconstruction of 2 tabernacle oratories with stunning frescoes by Gozzoli.
*Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/three-hidd...

🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians #art #italy

Promo image for an essay about a wonderful museum in Castelfiorentino (there is an image of the building).

@brepols.net Oct 5, 2026, 1:54 PM

𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Consuelo Lollobrigida, Adelina Modesti (eds)

More info: bit.ly/4dhPxvw

#WomensStudies #GenderStudies #Art #ArtHistory

@siga.spainculture.us Oct 5, 2026, 1:33 PM

🖼️Image credit: Atribuido a Sebastián de Herrera Barnuevo, La Virgen de la Soledad, Hacia 1665, El Museo del Prado

#CallForPapers #CFP #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #HispanicWorld #VirgenDeLaSoledad #ProcessionalSculpture #Naples #CANHISPANICO

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@artejoke.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:09 PM

It came to class

Oscar Björck, Madam Henriksen's school for girls in Skagen, 1884, Skagens Museum #arthistory #puns

Painting of the interior of a Danish school featuring an elderly teacher, likely Madam Henriksen and 4 young pupils. Caption reads: It came to class

@anideaaday.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:05 PM

Albrecht Dürer painted Adam and Eve in 1507, pausing the biblical story before its consequences arrive. That pause changes the scene from a lesson about guilt into a question about choice. Do you feel hope or dread in that suspended moment?
https://an-idea-a-day.replit.app/painting/66
#ArtHistory

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:29 AM

🎨 ‘Each artist on their own terms’: why #LeeKrasner was every bit the equal to husband #JacksonPollock

At a landmark #exhibition at #NewYork’s #MetMuseum, Mrs Pollock finally steps out of her spouse’s shadow

#Art #ArtHistory #WomenInArt
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

@marygart.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:52 AM

New research published on Zenodo:
From Oral Memory to Written Order: Myth, Geometry, and the Ontology of Writing on the Iranian Plateau.
zenodo.org/records/2314...

#arthistory #art #AcademicResearch #OpenAccess

@busterjustis.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:06 AM

Theories of Modern Art. Vintage book. Great resource for artists or teachers. etsy.me/2baginQ #etsy #art #artist #arthistory #modern

@imaginemore-art.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:53 AM

🎨 "Girl with an Orchid" (XX-XXI cent.)

Artist: Robert G. Harris

Date: XX-XXI cent.

Discover in detail at ImagineMore.Art: ✨

https://imaginemore.art/artists/Robert_G._Harris/ed3d09192cfb96c5a7e082865a26f001

#ArtistOfTheWeek #ClassicalArt #ArtHistory #imaginemore #RobertG.Harris

@klausherdepe.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:11 AM

Guten Morgen!
Francesco Guardi, * 5.10.1712 in Venedig; † 1.1.1793 ebd. war ein italienischer Veduten- und Landschaftsmaler des Rokoko 🎨 🇮🇹
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venedig, ca. 1770 🖼️
National Galleries Scotland 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #Museum #BskyArt #History #Rococo