historian of art | Rome; late antiquity
Adelaidean in New Haven
Joined May 2010
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We've launched a new interface of the Photographic Collection's Iconographic Database! 🎉
We hope that users will find the new version to be much more inviting, user-friendly, and navigable.
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Remembering a truly Warburgian life: Christopher Ligota obituary theguardian.com/books/2023/f…
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The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you…
RIP Burt Bacharach 🙏
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Wayne Meeks, distinguished Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Yale, requiescat in pace.
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Major job alert: please spread the word! Looking for my new Institute Manager @Warburg_News jobs.london.ac.uk/displayjob…
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Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity - new collection out shortly including contributions from @flissina @MichaelPeppard @AwesFreeman and others (including me), all acknowledging the scholarship of Robin M Jensen:
rowman.com/ISBN/978197870159…
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Caspar Meyer and I asked 25 scholars (Art Historians, Archaeologists, Curators, and Conservators), what is going in the field of metalwork research studies today. The result is here:
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W86th, The Place to Be
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Another triumph of cross-platform collaboration at The New York Times. About this team project with Marisa Schwartz Taylor and Rebecca Lieberman. @nytimes nytimes.com/2022/06/12/us/po…
RIP
Simon Preston, an organist and conductor admired as one of the most important English church musicians of his generation, has died at 83. nyti.ms/3NznN5V
To those who have encountered Dean Willis & been touched by his extraordinary ministry (as part of the GC, as a visitor/pilgrim to @CburyCathedral, passing admirer of his felicitous felines, etc etc): please consider offering a tribute & spreading the word
tribute.co/the-very-rev-dr-r…
with an omphalos, I am glad there is something inherently classical about The Fox, the new @NGVMelbourne Contemporary gallery 😉 ngv.vic.gov.au/the-fox-ngv-c…
this little thread 🧵 was just the tonic I needed ~ thank you @wdavidotaylor
There is so much to like in this multi-author volume in general and in Felicity Harley-McGowan’s essay in particular, “From Victor to Victim: Developing an Iconography of Suffering in Early Christian Art.” @flissina
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Lest we forget ❤️ Today, #AnzacDay services are being held at dawn to commemorate the brave Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in war and service to their country. If you're ever in #Australia on April 25, it's worth the early start to take part in a dawn service.
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The art of calligraphy on a dried leaf, was practised widely in Ottoman Turkey. This was difficult & delicate work. The leaf was dried, & the tissue removed to leave the skeletal membrane, with gold ink applied over it.
For Ramadan, here are 20 exquisite examples…
A thread…
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Symposium: 'Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages', Bard Graduate Center and Online, 28th-29th April 2022 medievalartresearch.com/2022…
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#WorldArtDay Ochre is a precious resource and central to the art of Indigenous Australian & Torres Strait Island peoples' religion and culture. This is Ngalyod, Red Rainbow Serpent creator ancestor, painted by Billinyara Nabegeyo tinyurl.com/2p9ekzyx
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