APHRODITE #exhibition opens @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social today. Hoping to see it over the weekend!

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Coming soon 🐚 💫 Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess opens next Thursday, 8 October. 🏛️ Ashmolean Members enjoy free entry, with no need to book, and an exclusive preview of the exhibition the day before it opens. ashmolean.org/exhibition/a...

Great to see so many new followers here at the start of this academic year! Here's some more info about my work which I've also just updated: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/dr-aleksandr...

Exhibition News! Trinity In the Mountains, A Higher Education, celebrates the rich history of climbing and literature of mountains among Trinity members from the 17th c to the present day. Open to visitors 12pm-2pm Monday to Friday, free entry. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/visi... #cambridge #climbing

The UK government has just placed an export bar on this exquisite bronze statuette by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico. Antico is one of the artists that we study on my 7-week online course, 'Approaches to Western Art History'. More details below from PACE, University of Cambridge

UK government places export bar on ‘rare’ Renaissance sculpture worth £4.6m

‘Seated Nymph’ was created in the early 16th century by the Italian sculptor Antico, nicknamed for his Classical-inspired bronzes

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Late summer trip to Sweden: fantastic castles, palaces and museums

Very topical museum content: how objects in @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social reveal the story of The Odyssey: www.ashmolean.org/article/the-...

THE ODYSSEY: THE STORY OF ODYSSEUS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD & BEYOND

Explore the myths of the Greek hero Odysseus and the story of the Odyssey in the ancient world through objects in our collection.

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Shh, don’t tell our colleagues at the Faculty of Classics Library, but this is the only Odysseus we’re really interested in 🤫🐾 #OdysseusTheCat #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Just announced: Gdynia, Poland's modernist port city on the Baltic coast, has been added to UNESCO's heritage list. Here are some photos of its interwar architecture from my recent trip.

A final few art and architecture highlights from Gdańsk. There was also time for plenty of research for an exciting international project that I'm taking part in, examining the depiction of stepfamilies in early modern art. More on that later!

A visit to the European Solidarity Centre at the Gdańsk Shipyard. The moving permanent exhibition charts the 20th-century history of Solidarność and the political changes it triggered in Central and Eastern Europe, while temporary displays reflect upon current conflict in the region.

Highlights from a recent visit to the National Museum in #Gdańsk, #Poland: Late #Gothic and #Renaissance altarpieces, #Baroque portraits, a dedicated pewter gallery and sacred and secular treasury art, all displayed within the historic setting of a former Franciscan friary.

This pretty much sums up my recent trip to the Baltic coast: plenty of pierogi. Now I need to sort out my museum and gallery photos...more on that soon!

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500–1800) 🔜 Submission deadline: 15 June 📍 Warsaw | 📅 28–30 Sept Student workshop included :) #EarlyModern #History #BlueSkyStorians More info ⬇️

Great news for the iconic Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, and its wide-ranging art collection. A wonderful space for art and learning: www.ft.com/content/03ef...

David Sainsbury’s £90mn gift heralds a boom in museum mega-donations

The supermarket scion is funding a renewal of Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre, the latest in a run of hefty gifts

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More Baroque art from my London visit, this time the 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social. The #exhibition includes a range of religious artworks, as well as mythological and still life paintings, among them some by the artist's son, Juan de Zurbarán.

Now on @royalacademyarts.bsky.social: an #exhibition of the work of the 17th-century Brussels-based artist Michaelina Wautier. It shows the thematic breadth of her work, including a large mythological painting called 'The Triumph of Bacchus', religious artworks, and depictions of children.

Not one but TWO new Illuminating Women Artists volumes are published today! ⭐️ Michaelina Wautier - by Katlijne Van der Stighelen ⭐️ Anne Vallayer-Coster - by Kelsey Brosnan www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Art & object highlights from the 'In Bloom' #exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social: 'Orchids' by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, 1879; 19th-century teaching models of plants; an 18th-century pharmacy jar and a 17th-century floral still life by Rachel Ruysch; a recent tapestry by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Recently opened at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands: an exhibition of the work of the Hungarian-Indian modernist artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941). 'Europe Belongs to Picasso, India belongs to me' runs until 20th September 2026. drentsmuseum.nl/en/news/dren...

Alfriston Clergy House, the first historic property to be acquired by @nationaltrust.org.uk for £10 in 1896. This Sussex hall-house is also home to the first item of furniture acquired by the Trust: a bench. The house was once lived in by Robert Witt, a co-founder of @courtauld.bsky.social

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'Michaelina Wautier' #exhibition opens 27th March @royalacademy.bsky.social, showcasing the wide-ranging work of this 17th-century artist, including flower paintings, portraits and history paintings. Wautier's self-portrait can be seen in The Triumph of Bacchus (on the front cover of the catalogue)

Just opened at the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin, Poland, an #exhibition of Baroque religious artworks with fabulous polychromy and gilding. On until 16th August. Thanks to my aunt Kasia for the photos!

Just announced: I will be teaching a new International Summer Programme course at @cam.ac.uk this summer: 'Women artists in Europe c. 1400-1800'. #womenartists More details here:

This new #exhibition @blenheimpalace.bsky.social celebrates John Vanbrugh, the Baroque architect and dramatist who died 300 years ago. Exhibits throughout the palace explore Vanbrugh's work there and how this ambitious building project took shape.

Excited that my work has been cited in this recent book about conceptions of 'loneliness' in the Western world link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Writing Early Modern Loneliness

This collection is the first to redefine conceptions of ‘loneliness’ in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern texts.

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An excellent online resource: Cambridge Digital Library brings together many of the University's collections @theul.bsky.social : cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

Highlights from the Jane Austen display currently @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Dancing with Austen explores how important dance was to Austen’s society and its crucial role in her creativity. #exhibition

Happy Birthday to James Joyce!🎉 🎂 Joyce was born on 2nd February 1882 in Rathgar, Dublin. Joyce loved having a big celebration for his birthday. Come and catch the exhibition of James Joyce’s personal archive at University of Reading Special Collections @themerl.bsky.social !

Starts tomorrow at The Wallace Collection, London: a new, free trail 'Marie-Antoinette: An Eye for Beauty' - www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/exh...