Nothing to make me feel older than realizing when I started writing about a certain set of prints they were "nearly 500 years old" and now they are "over 500 years old"...

Diese Woche im ZI Mittwoch, 9.7.2025, 18:15 Uhr Festvortrag #WolfgangRatjenPreis 2025 Antony Griffiths, London: On Understanding and Misunderstanding Prints www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...

Such a pleasure to have contributed to this volume.

Fabian Jonietz@ikonotaph.bsky.social · last yr.

Forthcoming: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182876/

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Working on Malvasia and Parmigianino seem to give me trouble when it comes to searching for books for research.

Slide comparison: (l) Michel Maille, Ercole and Luigi Bolognetti, marble, 1681-83, Rome, Chiesa di Gesù e Maria (r) Statler and Waldorf, timeless

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

ahahahahaha

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈@dataandpolitics.net · last yr.

Results from Elections Canada. Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat.

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

One of my favourite courses I ever took in undergrad was a history of architecture course for which we had to sketch to a theme each week. It is such an amazing way to see things in a new light, so I can only imagine how enriching this course would be.

Sietske Fransen@sietskefransen.bsky.social · last yr.

The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

If you are teaching the Birds Head Haggadah it is indeed compulsory to include the pop-up version. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social 🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

A friendly PSA for my fellow Canadians: the Americano as the name for the coffee drink is already a knock against Americans who were scoffed at by Italians for drinking watered down coffee, so please, I beg of you, don’t rename it the Canadiano. It’s not the clever move you think it is.

Step-by-step instructions on building a cistern from a Vitruvius edition published in 1511. More in our rare books online exhibition, curated by the Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

I had so much fun going into the rare book collection @bhmpi.bsky.social to work on this online exhibition together with the rest of the Visualizing Science team!

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History@bhmpi.bsky.social · last yr.

🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen. 🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it

📣Call for Applications! 📣 The Department Michalsky welcomes Pre- & Postdoc Projects in its core research areas: Southern Italy and Naples, Cinematic Space, Historical Spaces, Epistemes of Cartography, New Methodologies in Medieval Studies. 🔗https://www.biblhertz.it/en/opportunities ⏳March 15, 2025

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

Last chance to be part of a truly amazing research group!

Sietske Fransen@sietskefransen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!

Two new calls for fellows in two amazing intellectual environments!

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History@bhmpi.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 2 new fellowship calls out now! The department of @tristanweddigen.bsky.social is offering Predoc & Postdoc Fellowships for 25/26. The Max Planck Research Group led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social is seeking 1 Postdoc Fellow & 2 Predoc Fellows. 🔗https://www.biblhertz.it/en/opportunities

#Provenienzforschung Zusammen mit dem Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project und der TU Berlin veranstaltet das ZI das Online-Seminar "NS-Raubkunst: Wie kann ich das recherchieren? Eine Einführung in drei Schritten". Interesse? Hier geht’s zum Programm: de.jdcrp.org/ns-raubkunst...

In a piece about risotto in the @newyorker.com there was reference to an 1809 recipe being early, so I wrote in with two 1549 recipes and… my letter got published?! (I’ve never written a letter to the editor before in my life!)

a brief explainer on whatever's happening in the country that you are, probably, ignoring slate.com/news-and-pol...

What, Exactly, Happened to Justin Trudeau? Is Canada About to Elect Its Trump Now?

Sorry—you have to care about another country this week. Don’t worry, it’ll pass.

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New "First Research Article” fellowships 🤩 Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life." 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 16, 2024 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #HistSci #ResearchOpportunities

I have apparently lived in Rome long enough that I have an album of my favourite volutes. Points if you can guess where these are from. (Will give locations afterwards)

The inaugural @bsky.app post from @bhmpi.bsky.social with a few reflections from a recent study trip to Barcelona and the surrounding area to see Manifesta15.

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History@bhmpi.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵Impressions from a 3-day study trip to Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, exploring both contemporary art and cultural heritage in their urban and historical context. 🧵 1/11

Just to say that if this is the link is censored for you, I can confirm it IS adult content in that there won't be many children with doctorates in early modern economic history, but the image is definitely safe for work.

Jill Burke@jillburke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please share the new call for Turin Humanities Programme postdoc fellowships on 'Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World' led by Sophus Reinert. Deadline 17 Feb, start 1 Nov 25. All nationalities, normally within 7 years of PhD. www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

Generally starting to like this platform, but have to say I find it hilarious that @bsky.app censored images I posted of early-16th c. engravings.