🔆 THE ART OF LIGHT 🔆 Next week’s essay will be about the magnificent Annunciation in Cortona by Fra Angelico & the powerful effect of being so close to this exquisite masterwork. Subscribe to our newsletter for an update: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #art

🦅 🏴 Siena’s tendency to form associations was already firmly established in the 13th century and is today still evident in the city’s contrade (districts) within the medieval city walls. 🔎 Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-contra... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #medievalsky #art #Italy

During our visit to Siena's Duomo last week we were so lucky that ALL mosaics were uncovered! More details in this essay: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-art-of... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #medievalsky #art #mosaicmonday

🦁 A particularly fantastical, lionesque door-knocker seen in Siena. Life is too short to be boring! 🚗 Join our travel journey here 🔽 🛋️ armchair travellers are welcome: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #art #caturday #cat #lion

🚗 Room with a view! We arrived in Siena, one of the highlights of our filming trip in Italy. Subscribe to our Exploring Art History newsletter for artistic updates about this amazing city which has been the canvas for so many great artists! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #art

🚗 The Tarlati Polyptych (‘Il Polittico’) in situ in Santa Maria della Pieve, Arezzo, by Pietro Lorenzetti, 1320. ☀️ 💛 We entered the church at 7 am & were privileged to be alone with this masterwork. 🧳 Subscribe to our free travel diary here: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky

🚗 🧳 The Bourges astronomical clock, the oldest (15th century) extant 🕰️ type in France, Bourges Cathedral. A present by Charles VII on the occasion of the baptism of his son, the future Louis XI. 🧳 Full travel diary: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #Gothic #art

🚗 We're en route to Italy! Yesterday we stopped in Bourges where we visited the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges, built in Gothic style, 1195-1230. It is decorated w/ a large number of splendid 13th-c. #stainedglass windows. 🧳 Travel diary: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #Gothic #art

For Whistler art was not a vehicle for social justice, moral elevation or personal development. The goal of art, all art, was simply to create beauty. Read a thoughtful essay about Whistler, his art & Ten O'Clock, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/modern-fru.... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art

🚗 We’re almost ready to go on our Italian Grand Tour! First stop: the Egyptian museum in Turin. 👇 🦁 The line drawings behind the sphinxes show how they would have been presented originally - stunning! Sign up for our travelogue: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🏺 #caturday 🗃️ #arthistory #Egypt #art

Medieval advice during heatwave: “Sit on the riverbank with your legs in the water and leeches on your legs.” Things are quieter than usual here because of not only a blistering heatwave but also a power outrage for 28 hours which meant no internet = no information. 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky 🏺

Portrait of Galileo by Justus Sustermans, 1635. 🔭 Galileo came from a humanist family & he expressed many research insights through the trendy literary form of a Renaissance dialogue. Read about how beauty impacted his research: 👁️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #science

Tomb monument for Alfonsina de' Medici Orsini, Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. This quietly arresting monument was erected by her daughter, Clarice. Read about the subtle #architecture of grief: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/overlooked... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

❓"Isn’t it the business of history to put ourselves into the hearts or minds of those being investigated?" Read Looking For Clues for the need to use the period eye to understand the past in the present: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/looking-fo... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #art

Detail of Albrecht Durer’s engraving of Saint Jerome in his Study, 1514. ♥️ To draw animals this way you must love and respect animals! Have you visited Exploring Art History yet? Visit us here: substack.com/@ideasroadshow. 🗃️ #arthistory #Art #caturday #lion #dog #cat

The Artist’s Sister Minerva Anguissola, c. 1564. 🔎 Note the medallion delineating attributes of the Roman goddess Minerva. Find out more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/taking-ano... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists

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." Read here: 👁️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/taking-ano... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

🦁 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

👢 Map of Italy by friar/geographer Ignazio Danti + his painter brother Antonio Danti, The Gallery of Maps, Vatican. 📍 Read our 🗞️ for updates about new art films, art essays & podcasts w/ art experts : www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor... #frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #frescofriday #Rome

🏺🏺 ‘Bilingual amphora’ w/ Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice, & Ajax and Achilles playing a game, 6th c. BC, a transitional period when black-figure was replaced by red-figure. ▶️ READ: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/artistic-e... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia

Happy June everybody! June panel from a #Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia #mosaicmonday

🐩 René Magritte with Loulou, one of his four Pomeranian dogs, Brussels, 1944. 🎩 🧥 Check out the surrealistic coat & hat behind him - coincidence? 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #magritte #dog #dogsofbluesky #art

M.C. Escher’s woodcut of San Gimignano, 1923. Looking forward to visiting San Gimignano again to do lots of filming and photography for upcoming art films! Join us for travel updates: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #medievalsky #academia #art

Mosaic in the Baths of Neptune, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, c. 139. 🌊 This mosaic must have made quite a splash at the time, and still does! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #mosaicmonday #canicule #heatwave

Fresco showing a shipwreck from the West House in Akrotiri, on the Greek island of Santorini. Bronze Age, 17th century BC. #frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology

Michelangelo had a long and fruitful collaboration with Marcello Venusti (1512-79). His paintings were recognized as Michelangelo inventions and universally attributed to him, “di sua mano” (by his hand). ✍️ Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/carving-ou... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia

👌 Pope Leo XIV on #AI “We must avoid the ‘Babel syndrome’, the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak...the pretence that a single language—even a digital one—can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance.” 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #vatican

🐕 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. 🐾 Read: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺 #dog

Saint Francis of Paola, an anamorphic fresco by Emmanuel Maignan, 1642, Trinità dei Monte, Rome. 🔭 Galileo was strongly disparaging of the contemporary trend of “illusionistic art”. Read more in 'Aesthetic Judgements' 👇 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-aesthet... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art 🏺

Raphaelesque Head Exploding by Salvador Dalí, c.1951. From 1945 on, Dalí painted a series of paintings based on nuclear bomb explosions. Here the tender face is recognisable as the face of a Madonna by Raphael. *Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art