#OnThisDay in 1865, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House—marking the official end of the Civil War.
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2/2 Saint Catherine. And her cartoon. From 1515 by the divine Raphael.
Raphael was the first Renaissance painter I fell in love with.
Resisting the urge to “Well, actually” the plague date.
2/2 A lot of portrait effort always went into representing the sitter’s clothing. Look at all the fab fabrics on Francis!
Gabriel has stopped in street to chat with local saint, but Mary is nevertheless receiving the Holy Spirit in a marvelous Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. For the feast of the Annunciation, which is today.
My endlessly wise, wonderful, beautiful wife, Isabella Brant, painted in our garden (more or less) in 1621 by Anthony van Dyck. He was born OTD in 1599.
Colored woodcut of sundogs over a 16th-century German town; well-dressed figures are pointing thoughtfully at the crazy stuff in the skies.
More sundogs over a German town, but fewer and smaller pointing scholars this time.
They made great material for woodcut broadsheets as well, a couple here from Strasbourg in 1554 and Rottenberg in 1561: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
This seems really cool @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Born on this day in 1836, in Boston, painter Winslow Homer. Here, painting some more artists sketching in the White Mountains in 1868.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
I guess I hadn’t realized he came up just a few days short (a hair short?) of a 23 year reign.
Pure profile aesthetics: sheer elegance of the line for a woman's profile, 1460s, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. He was born on this day in 1430.
The lace maker, 1662. Seems so quiet, but you know her bobbins are clicking away. By Caspar Netscher, whose day is today.
Giulio Clovio painted the Tower of Babel several times, once in collaboration w/ the great Pieter Bruegel. That work is alas lost. Here is Clovio painting Babel in the Farnese Hours.
I try to avoid them altogether. But maybe two?
Charles II, c. 1670
Peter Lely
(National Maritime Museum)
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
-- James Baldwin
Green journal cover with title Novel A Forum on Fiction and list of featured articles and authors
As globalization and crises in biopolitics and the environment rapidly increase, and as models of affect theory multiply, the novel and how we read it are undergoing a sea change.
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2/2 Visual feast for all the senses in 1653, from Abraham van Beyeren. It's his day.
Catherine de' Medici, showing off her children to be painted in the studio of Francois Clouet. Today is his day.
Happy woman reading
Jan Lievens, c. 1630-1674
(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
Assistant Professor in International #Politics - Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Social Sciences and Philosophy - Department of Political Science #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU769/a...
🇸🇪🏆🇭🇺 Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai received the Nobel Prize in Literature today in Stockholm from King Carl XVI Gustaf — a historic moment honoring the master of dark, mesmerically unfolding epics and a landmark day for Hungarian literature.
JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
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Born on this day in 1625, Paulus Potter, who painted mostly animals w/ specialty in cattle. Here portrayed as a busy yet dashing artist by Bartholomeus van der Helst in 1654.
Alessandro Farnese, later Duke of Parma & governor of The Netherlands, looking very dashing at age 15. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1560.
