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Having survived the chaos of the Ming-Qing transition, the Jesuit Martino Martini (1614-1661) was in Brussels in 1654, where Michaelina Wautier (c.1614-1689) painted this portrait of him, a standout in the excellent @royalacademy.bsky.social show of her work. What tales did he tell her as he sat?
Having survived the chaos of the Ming-Qing transition, the Jesuit Martino Martini (1614-1661) was in Brussels in 1654, where Michaelina Wautier (c.1614-1689) painted this portrait of him, a standout in the excellent @royalacademy.bsky.social show of her work. What tales did he tell her as he sat?
Look carefully and you'll see the featured title is "The Wall has Two Sides: A Portrait of China Today", by noted Friend of China (and cousin of novelist Graham) Felix Greene (1909-1985)
A thread on Duanwu 端午
Qing rulers also invested the purity of water with political significance through the construction of monumental architecture. Read more in my chapter on Baotu Spring in Visual Ecologies of Placemaking, edited by Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart!
Call for Papers: AAH Summer Symposium 2026 - The Fragment: Form, Method, and Meaning
The Association for Art History's Summer Symposium is a one-day annual event highlighting current postgraduate and early career research.
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A nice article about this year's Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting winner, Hannah Wei of Hertford College.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/defence-visibly-used-books-wins-bodleian-book-collecting-prize
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A sunbathing turtle and some Shanghai greenery to usher in Duanwu
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This year’s Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting offered by the Bodleian Library’s Centre for the Study of the Book has been won by Hannah Wei.The annual prize is awarded to an undergraduate or po...
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month— #端午 #Duanwu —we commemorate the death of the poet-minister Qu Yuan
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Exiled from the kingdom of Chu for his fierce opposition to Qin (which did indeed, as he predicted, demolish all, in its imperial ambition), he drowned himself in the Miluo River. 1/
Young bookworm at the window of John Smith & Son bookshop, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, 1962, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
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Narrative format of REF environment statements may encourage institutions to ‘stretch the truth’ with misrepresentations ‘hard to prove’, experts fear. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #REF #highered #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fears-over-polishing-ref-statements-spark-audit-calls
