Tulip Mania: Semper Augustus, watercolour drawing of rare flamed carmine & white tulip; most expensive tulip sold during tulip mania 1634-37. Six Collection, Tulip Book, p. 59. With note recording sale price of ƒ3000 (~€38.000 in 2024). Rijksmuseum
Annemarieke Willemsen
@amwillemsen.bsky.social
A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤 "History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
New discovery: An archaeological complex with colourful mosaics and wall paintings dating to the 4th century AD has been discovered in Qesarat, Albania. 👉 www.finestresullarte.info/de/archaolog... #archaeology 🏺
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), posthumously critically acclaimed, prolific US street photographer #womensart
🔭🌙 Just 10cm tall, this little clock-watch in the form of a book includes adjustable sundials, signs of the zodiac, tools to calculate the hours of daylight and the phases of the moon, a lunar wheel-chart, and even an alarm! ⏰
Latest post from the Mørstad hoard - a silver penny of Heinrich II (1014-24) copying a gold Byzantine coin from the 9th century. #medievalsky #findsFriday
An extraordinary Roman Samian vessel with leaping tigers excavated at Wroxeter/ Viroconium & on display in the splendid Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery #FindsFriday 📷 My own, 2024
An absolute unit of a grasshopper, bigger than a human arm, spotted in 1684 Europe.
Weil der Knoten vielen zu kompliziert ist: Erste Bäckerei bietet Brezeln mit Klettverschluss an www.der-postillon.com/2021/09/klet...
Weil der Knoten vielen zu kompliziert ist: Erste Bäckerei bietet Brezeln mit Klettverschluss an
München (dpo) - Gute Nachrichten für Freunde von Laugengebäck! Die Münchner Großbäckerei "Meyer Backwaren" bietet ab sofort neben klassischen Brezeln
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Seal impressions can reveal ownership, reading practices, and the journeys of manuscripts across collections. A new DFG-funded project is creating a database of seals from manuscripts in the Islamic world. It will link images and descriptions and develop tools for automated recognition
New DFG Project for Exploring Seal Impressions
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Tiger Soga Shôhaku 18th century, Japan MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink on paper DIMENSIONSImage: 119.1 x 28.6 cm (46 7/8 x 11 ¼ in.) CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
21 September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. Here is a representation of St Matthew's symbol. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 124; Exegetical-liturgical collection of works; c. 810/820 CE; St. Amand; p.7 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
A 7th Century pillow name stone in St Hilda's church, Hartlepool, an Alpha and Omega above the name Hildithryth. It's one of a number from the cemeteries of the Anglo-Saxon monastery that stood on Hartlepool Headland and which are occasionally unearthed under streets and in peoples gardens. 1/2
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation
A magnificent medieval treasure and which featured in the amazing British Library Medieval women exhibition last year - a stunning depiction of Elizabeth Woodville #medievalsky saltertonartsreview.com/2025/02/medi...
The imposing walls of Burgh Castle Roman Fort in Norfolk (Gariannonum). Built during the late 3rd century, the fort was one of a series of ‘Saxon Shore Forts’ constructed to defend Britain against incursions from Saxon raiders. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain
Carlo Crivelli, Madonna della Candeletta, details, 1488-90. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano.
Enkele maanden oude opname van de ZW Veluwe roedel. Voor ons de eerste keer dat we de nieuwe welpen zagen. Voorop de teef die de tijd neemt om te kijken of alles veilig is. Daarna de reu gevolgd door de welpen en een vrouwelijke jaarling.
More & more House Sparrows arriving back in the garden at the moment. I counted a flock of 20 or so yesterday. Where they go on their sojourns I'm never quite sure - it was certainly thin pickings in the August harvest fields this year.
Having a fantastic time with @alisonfisk.bsky.social here in Berlin, we spent the whole day at the Neues Museum. Too exhausted for a proper post, so here’s just this cute Egyptian faience rabbit figurine to say: perfect day. 🐇💙 Dating 2120-1794 BC, 11th/12th dynasty.
Grumpy jay, shell-shocked owl, from natural history dictionary by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1586. Today is his day.
I miss the glory of days of lectures being events where torches were waved, and books were being thrown upon those who speak nonsense ... #academicchatter #edusky
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HET NATIONAAL ARCHIEF MAG NIET STOPPEN MET PUBLIEKE TAKEN!
Het Nationaal Archief is er niet alleen om documenten te bewaren. Het is ook een plek waar mensen terechtkunnen met vragen over hun familiegeschiedenis, hun afkomst of gebeurtenissen uit het verleden....
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Call for Papers IMC Leeds 2027: "What Do You Bring To The Table?" 🥄🍴🔪 Multidisciplinary sessions on medieval cutlery, archaeological & (art/food) historical, object focussed! Welcoming proposals on knives, spoons & forks < 21 Sept: a.willemsen@rmo.nl @imc-leeds.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social
