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@nyuspsce.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 2:34 PM

✏️ What can a drawing reveal that words cannot? Explore drawing as a universal visual language through works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, John Wilson, and more. 🔗 Learn more:https://bit.ly/4yel1Lt

#Drawing #ArtHistory #NYU

@da-vinci2026.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 2:26 PM

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws."
Notebooks

#arthistory #renaissance

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 2:11 PM

Our year-long collaboration with @storiesfromtheart is at its penultimate giveaway… 🎨

This month, we’re putting your art history knowledge to the test! 🧠

👉 Enter here: forms.gle/uZo4XRW8g7XM...

Winners to be announced on 5 Oct! ⏳

#ArtHistory #ArtQuiz #ArtGiveaway #WomenInArt #ArtHistoryLovers

@laurajg.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 1:52 PM

By Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Horn Player, ca. 1550–1680, brass & iron, 24 3/4 × 11 1/2 × 6 3/4 in. (62.9 × 29.2 × 17.2 cm), looted by the British army, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More in ALT. #arthistory #art #africanart #africaart #Sculpture

From the museum: “This figure of a court musician playing a side-blown trumpet attests to the technical virtuosity of the Benin bronze-casters. The figure's elaborately textured garment depicts the hide of a leopard, an animal associated with the power of the Oba. Similarly, the strands of coral around his neck and chest reaffirm this musician's status in the Benin court, since coral, like bronze and ivory, is a royal prerogative in Benin.”

Also from the museum: “The British invasion of the capital of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 was part of a campaign waged from 1892 through 1902 to forcibly bring most of the inland territory of modern-day Nigeria under British rule. With the British conquest of Benin City, Oba Ovonramwen was exiled to Calabar and soldiers plundered the palace. The brutality of the removal of its contents has forever decoupled altars dedicated to each individual oba dating from 1300 to Benin’s conquest with the specific works conceived to commemorate them…

Subsequent to the nineteenth century dispersal of Benin works, awareness of their extraordinary aesthetic power, beauty, and complexity profoundly influenced Black public intellectuals. Notable among these in the U.S. were W.E.B. Dubois, Alain Locke and artists from the Harlem Renaissance on. At the same time, their relegation to ethnographic museums during the colonial era continues to reflect the legacy of their forceful removal and segregation from comparable cultural achievements by Western creators.”

@anideaaday.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 12:05 PM

Paul Cézanne painted five versions of this scene, turning a rural card game into a meditation on attention, habit, and silence. What do you think the players understand about each other without saying a word?
https://an-idea-a-day.replit.app/painting/59
#ArtHistory

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:25 AM

Beautiful 13th-century panel with dynamic lines of Samson and the Lion, Sainte-Chapelle, now Musée de Cluny.

🗃️ #arthistory #design #caturday #StainedGlassSunday #lion #medievalsky #skystorians

13th-century panel with dynamic lines of Samson and the Lion, Sainte-Chapelle. It shows Samson on top of the lion trying to open up his mouth.

@artejoke.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:46 AM

Mask hysteria

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Duel After the Masquerade, 1857, Condé Museum
#arthistory #puns

Mid 19th century painting of showing the outcome of a duel after a costume ball. The scene is set on a gray winter morning, trees bare and snow covering the ground. A man has been mortally wounded in a duel and has collapsed into the arms of his friends. Caption reads: Mask hysteria

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:26 AM

📪 Tomorrow’s post is about another treasure we discovered during our 2 ½ months of filming and photography in Tuscany and Umbria this summer.

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🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #Italy

Thumbnail for upcoming Exploring Art History essay showing the frescoed ceiling of a church.

@troycap.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 8:01 AM

Chariot of Apollo — a French masterpiece by Odilon Redon inspired by Greek mythology. Discover the painting’s mythic symbolism, luminous palette and dreamlike composition: buff.ly/O0sFJ02 #ArtHistory #GreekMyth

@troycap.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:00 AM

La Bacchanal — beautiful French masterpiece by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot inspired by Greek mythology. A luminous, pastoral scene of mythic revelry that blends classical themes with Romantic light. See it: buff.ly/Ack02BE #ArtHistory #Corot

@klausherdepe.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:35 AM

Guten Morgen!
George Cruikshank, * 27.9.1792 in London; † 1.2.1878 ebd., war ein britischer Karikaturist und Illustrator und Kupferstecher 🎨 🇬🇧
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, 1868 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #Illustration #FairyTale #Märchen #BskyArt #History #etching #Bremen

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten vertreiben die Gäste aus dem Wirtshaus, 1868, aus: German Popular Stories s. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_popular_stories_-_(IA_germanpopularsto01grim).pdf

@taicheuk.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:31 AM

Unleash your inner demon! Exploring the captivating imagery of demons inspired by the chilling illustrations of Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal. #DarkArt #OccultArt #Demonology #FantasyArt #GothicArt #ArtHistory #CollinDePlancy pin.it/5CPrDvBxU via @pinterest