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Detail of Albrecht Durer’s engraving of Saint Jerome in his Study, 1514.
♥️ To draw animals this way you must love and respect animals!
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🐾 The period eye & the need for context: Girolamo Savonarola had triumphantly placed Donatello’s David - an avowedly homoerotic statue - in the Piazza della Signoria where he had initiated the famous “Bonfire of the Vanities”.
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Happy June everybody! June panel from a #Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia #mosaicmonday
From this week's art essay: "If you want to learn about art, read as much as you can as carefully as possible, but always remember to keep both your mind and your eyes wide open."
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🦁 Interested in impressing your guests with a napkin in the shape of The Winged Lion of Saint Mark in Venice?
Try to make these napkin sculptures designed by Mattia Giegher as detailed in his Treatise on Napkin Folding), 1629!
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #caturday #lion #cat #Italy #design
The Artist’s Sister Minerva Anguissola, c. 1564. 🔎 Note the medallion delineating attributes of the Roman goddess Minerva.
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🐕 Art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was a lifelong lover of dogs. When his dog had died, the entire IAS got together to get him an Irish Setter puppy. Here is a scroll in #Greek w/ all their names. 🐾
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🪶 The antique deity Thoth is represented as an ibis w/ its beak supported by a feather, the symbol of Maat, goddess of justice, #Egypt, 360–343 BCE.
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Watch an illustrated video podcast with @jillburke.bsky.social
about the nude in Italian Renaissance art & changing beauty standards for women related to the newly fashionable statues from Antiquity.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists 🏺
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A necklace with lotus-shaped pendants, made of faience.
Lotus was an important symbol in ancient #Egypt. It was associated with rebirth and rejuvenation.The plant was also valued for its pain-relieving properties. Ca 1,400 BC, from Theben.
On display at Neues Museum, Berlin.
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