Allison MacDuffee
@studiousgal.bsky.social
Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Sometimes teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.
Years ago I went a little overboard buying regency-era coffee can sets and English porcelain in general, here are examples. With marks from Derby, circa 1820, all in a typically busy Imari pattern of underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding. The oval plate is a rather nice teapot stand.
Toronto still obsesses about "shadows" from buildings. We need much more shade along streets & in all public spaces. Bring back awnings along high streets!
Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 20h agoI was recently in a few Spanish cities, including Malaga, and it was great to see shade structures all around. The critical thing is that European cities care about people outside of cars. North American cities mostly don't. Shade matters for people walking, biking, rolling, and waiting for buses
Sounds wonderful. Make me hungry, or what?
DAI@dai-weltweit.bsky.social · last wk.🏺 Was hat Apfelkuchen mit der #Seidenstraße zu tun? Bei #EineStundeHistory im #dlfnova zeigt #Eurasien_DAI-Direktorin Mayke Wagner wo und warum wir der Geschichte der historischen Seidenstraßen manchmal in ganz alltäglichen Dingen begegnen können. 🎧 www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/2-jh...
I've been up since 4. Jet lag! I've exercised, had coffee and breakfast, made lunch, did dishes, read a book, built a syllabus, showered, dressed, came to the office. Morning people, having lived your life? I hate it. 😅
Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables) https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12341
Pieter Coecke van Aelst visited Constantinople 1533. Here, from Customs & Fashions of the Turks (published posthumously by his entrepreneurial wife Mayken), procession of Sultan Süleyman through the Hippodrome.
Getting the OfS involved in PhD examination would be an incredible, disatrous and egregious assault on academic independence.
Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterdayCalls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Unknown artist, Deformed broccoli c. 1650 (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII) Has to be there in the top ten artwork titles.
On essaie de se reposer, de plus penser au travail, et puis le métro de Copenhague ressemble à la BnF Tolbiac 😅
Just when you think you've found a nice, private spot for some music, courtship, etc, Death and Folly show up and try to join in the fun. So annoying! By Pieter Coecke van Aelst, born OTD in 1502.
A couple pictures fr our sunny walk on E side, Toronto. The stops included York Pioneers' Simcoe Day event at Riverdale Pk East (incl nice chat w/ historian @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social), Riverdale Farm, Necropolis, St James Cenetery. Ending (on west side) w/ Franburger at Frans, College St.
The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676, completed in 1695; interior with distinctive limewood carvings by ‘The King’s Carver’ Grinling Gibbons, Dutch sculptor who died in London #OTD 1721; buried at St Paul’s Covent Garden. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
To celebrate her 1648 election as grand mistress of Ghent's St. Elisabeth Beguinage, Maria vanden Haute commissioned a monstrance w/her patron, Mary, at the center. She died in 1675 and was buried in the beige robe of a Dominican tertiary. Want to know more? Check out my new book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Wonderful, rare morning at my intellectual happy place, @britishlibrary.bsky.social , researching globes. Thanks to the Maps Room team for welcoming me back! #maps #skystorians 🗃️
Do apply if you can. As a former scholar in residence, I highly recommend it 📚 www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/schola...
Scholarships & Residencies - Gladstone's Library
When William Gladstone established his library, he wanted to ensure that anyone who would benefit from a residential period of study at Hawarden should
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Gladstone's Library@gladlib.bsky.social · 2d ago📣 Gladstone's Library Scholarships: Last Chance for Applications!📣 The submission period for scholarships to be taken in 2027 closes at 11.45pm BST today (Monday 3rd August 2026). For details on the 23 scholarships available and how to apply go to our website -> Scholarships and Residencies.
Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky
The Walters Art Museum seeks a new James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, who will oversee a collection of over 3,000 works of European art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The deadline for applications is 31 August: www.codart.nl/careers/job-...
James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art - CODART
The Walters Art Museum is among America’s most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning seven millennia. Located in Baltimore’s Mount...
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Toddler took The Arcades Project off the shelf. The indoctrination has been a success. However, as it turns out, there are not enough pictures to go along with the discussion of the Passage des Panoramas so we will return to this text at a later date.
Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-courbet/portrait-of-juliette-courbet-as-a-sleeping-child-1841
