after dragging my plantar fasciitis around for 5 days i finally give up, dig my frayed old danskos out of the closet, and cry hot tears of relief

also this hermitage catalog cover goes so hard

A woman lies on a bed, tucked under a brocade blanket, her head in her hand while she reaches out to check the swaddling on a newborn baby girl. All are carved from wood, a devotional effigy from 15th c Germany

I keep thinking about this amazing work of 15th c German art: originally an entire bed, carved with linens and pillows, supporting this unguarded, tender carving of St Anne and the newborn Virgin. Met Cloisters 56.211

oh wait i was in error that it was in error-- YAY!

thought my fall class was popular but actually there is a scheduling system error

the NYT cooking section grievously and regularly overestimates how much shrimp i have lying around

They are legion, they will make it!

aw yeahh there's a mama fox and two rambunctious kits behind my house. they have just emerged on the scene and the up-to-now-shameless rabbits are SCAIRT

also if the bm made coasters of these i would buy 100000

a truly great bear on this ilkhanid tile (im searching for gardens, poems, peacable animals)
13th
BM 1878,1230.565

emo david plays his sad secret chord
the fabulous gospel of Melisende, BL Egerton 1139

Of the many amazing things about Durer's St Jerome, I love being pretty certain that, while AD never saw a lion, he definitely saw and loved this lil doggo

Scholarships

Amazing opportunities for incoming students at undergraduate and grad level for scholarship in Armenian studies broadly defined!

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Solve for work There is no written word without a weary hand wielding the pen.

raw, real, and very good

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surrexit enim!
a seasonal, heretical mourning print of George Washington rising from his grave, by John James Barralet, ca 1800

Bats swirl above, deer roam below
Qing dynasty Hundred Deer Vase, San Antonio Museum of Art 92.25.2

doodles, copying and practicing trchnagir (bird letters) in a 16th c gospel from Aleppo (hmml AODA 72)

to be fair this apartment is probably in a 10-way tie for lowest ebb

on an airplane and the lady next to me is watching property brothers and they are showing an apt in chicago where i once spend a significant amount of time while at the lower ebb of my dating life
my soul has left my body

Building a Wilderness: The Sacred Desert and Medieval Vayots Dzor This talk takes an ecocritical approach to intersections of text, architecture and landscape in the 10th-14th centuries in the region of Vayots Dzo...

Tuesday! Zoom!
Excited to share some evolving thoughts on the intertextual construction of culturally-laden ecologies, as always thoughts mostly emanating out of the canyons of Vayots Dzor #Armenia

events.berkeley.edu/eahi/event/3...

Artists Set Islamic Futurism Into Motion Islamic visual traditions have long made space for realities beyond direct perception, and these artists work in calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making to carry them forward.

What might a Muslim future look like? Who gets to imagine it, and on what terms? In the visual arts, these questions are unfolding in real time across studios, exhibition spaces, and online platforms.

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today in research, this beautiful ragini, date not given, MFA Boston 17.2559

TIL about the 16th c German goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer's statues of Daphne made from coral and I am metamorphosed for it

Summer Programs NextGen Armenian Studies Program — NAASR Overview Skills Curriculum Topics Faculty Logistics Apply NextGen ArmenianStudies Program For High School Students & Recent Graduates Not a lecture series....

I'm so excited to be participating in the very first year of the NAASR Armenian studies summer program! Spread the word!! naasr.org/pages/summer...

she was so breathtaking

Saddling up with the Five Best Friends* of Hildegaard of Bingen
(BnF MS Arsenale 212 f 11v)

*or, portentous allegories of the ages of human civilization, whichever

charging my sense of the sacred eros of objects to write about relics by shopping 1990s Fashion Fillies on ebay

the purple one with the turquoise hooves i actually owned, i hope shes thriving somewhere

im not making a profound point here, but this also describes Texas

15th c eagle lectern with bat-shaped reinforcement, Aachen cathedral