🌿🌾 You like gardens? You like history? And games? Then rejoice, because LOBELIUS is here!

Thanks to official partners, Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Meise Botanical Garden, the players can skim through the 1581 Kruydtboeck by Matthias de l´Obel. Can you make the most beautiful early modern garden?

Starting in October, the #Louvre will begin a 4-year #restoration of the 24 paintings Rubens created (1622–1625) for his beloved patron, Maria de #Medici — from her birth in Florence to her grand arrival in Marseille. The Richelieu wing will be transformed into one big restoration atelier!

Let's dig!!

It certainly would! Maybe archeologists will be able to trace some of the sand layers that were used for preparing the area for tournaments😉

#Utrecht’s main square, the #Neude, across from my office, is being excavated!

In 1540, it hosted Charles V’s Joyous #Entry, marked by triumphal arches and obelisks celebrating him as world ruler. All made from papier-mâché, however, so little hope archaeologists will find any trace of them today😉

Likewise!

There’s something adorable about this guardian and child, who’ve brought a foldable chair to watch Maria de’ Medici's #ceremonial farewell from #Amsterdam on 5 Sept 1638. They watch the #French queen mother’s carriage leave #Dam Square—clearly making a day of it, as shown by Jan Martszen de Jonge.

A picture of me, middle-aged white guy, beard, glasses, blazer, on a balcony with a foggy view of the US Capitol in the background.

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something.

If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do.

If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

CFP: Studying court dining and using sensory data, 1300–1800 (Vilnius, 29-30 May 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/52040

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.

bit.ly/4bEeH7a

Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

Tous ceux qui tombent - Jérémie Foa!

I love how appropriately jet-lagged they all look, for this day when Palm Sunday coincides with the changing of the clocks.

My students in art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social used #VR today to explore these👇stunning late 16th-century vault paintings up close! Developed by our #ArtLab (Sanne Frequin en Daantje Meuwissen), the experience transported them high into the vaulted ceiling of the Great Church of #Naarden.

What does an art historian do in their free time? Play Assassin's Creed: Unity, of course! The video #game from 2013-14 lets you explore Louis XIV's Galerie des Glaces at late 18th-century #Versailles. Complete with Le Brun's ceiling paintings, chandelliers, gilded decoration -and dancing courtiers!

Ik ga ervan uit dat iedereen op het tipje van zijn/haar stoel zit om te weten wanneer de volgende aflevering wordt gedropt. Awel, dat is dus morgen 😉 Onderwerp: de dynastie. Een onderwerp waar ik dagen over kan leuteren, maar ik heb mij helaas moeten beperken tot een half uur begot 😊

Graag gedaan!

#earlymodern @weegiegraeme.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social

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in Hof-, staats- en stadsceremonies, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1998. Het toernooi wordt er in ook in besproken + relevant archiefmateriaal. Festivalboekje over het toernooi ligt, als ik het goed heb, in Gent.

@mariodamen.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Dit gaat inderdaad om de bruiloft van Johan Wolfert van Brederode en Louise Christine van Solms. Er is eerder over geschreven: Jochen Becker, '''Groote kosten en magnificien'': Die Haager Hochzeit von 1638 - Formen under Funktionen eines Festes'

💫What a delightful start of 2026!

This weekend I travelled to Venlo - in Dutch #Limburg - to visit “Burgundians in Limburg” (Limburgs Museum): a wonderful exhibition on the #Burgundian splendour of the late 14th- and 15th-century #Meuse region. [1/6]

... singing actors riding real #elephants🐘, banquet tables laden with swan and peacock pies descending from the ceiling—and a mysterious #pheasant encrusted with jewels! [6/6]

🏰... organised by Philip the Good in 1454 at Lille’s Palais de #Rihour to announce, with great pomp, his crusade to Constantinople. A megalomaniacal piece of ephemeral court #spectacle ... [5/6]

Or—going even further back in time—the alabaster arcade carved by Claus Sluter in the late 14th century for the tomb of Philip the Bold at #Champmol, a high point of Burgundian sculpture. 🦢 Especially delightful is the theatrical evocation of the #Banquet of the Pheasant ... [4/6]

Equally remarkable is the mechanical breastplate of Maximilian of Habsburg from Vienna, which could burst apart during #tournaments🫅 And there's the gemstone-encrusted crown that Margaret of York donated in 1474 to the statue of the Virgin in Aachen Cathedral during a ceremonial entry. [3/6]

The exhibit features many international masterpieces🤺Among them is Gérard Loyet’s exquisitely beautiful reliquary of Charles the Bold from #Liège: the furrows in the faces of the duke and his patron saint, St George, are rendered with striking sensitivity in gilded silver. [2/6]

💫What a delightful start of 2026!

This weekend I travelled to Venlo - in Dutch #Limburg - to visit “Burgundians in Limburg” (Limburgs Museum): a wonderful exhibition on the #Burgundian splendour of the late 14th- and 15th-century #Meuse region. [1/6]

✨ It was an honour being able to witness the ancient #Cypriot Feast of #Theophany today, January 6! While Western traditions often celebrate the Magi's visit of Bethlehem, the #Eastern Church marks this day by commemorating the #baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. [1/4]

The ceremony took place before a 10th-century #Byzantine church, boasting remarkably preserved frescoes of Jesus's life, including his own baptism, painted in the 15th century. [4/4]

⛪ In #Geroskipou, villagers joined a small procession in honour of John the Baptist, walking beneath an icon held aloft by the local priest. [3/4]