Dr Anna Clark

Pugin’s St Giles Cheadle, Staffs, 1841-6. On one hand, turning back the clock to the Catholic Middle Ages. On another, a blueprint for a generation of Anglican churches of the High Victorian era.

Between storms, Traprain Law, East Lothian.

A brisk fall afternoon. Brønshøj Kirke, Copenhagen's oldest extant building c.1180.

The C6 #mosaics of S. Vitale in #Ravenna are often read as a transition from classical to #Christian visual language, but they are also highly polemical. The lunette’s Old Testament scenes operate as assertions of theological orthodoxy for #MosaicMonday. #AncientBluesky 🏺🧵

Venice patina is unlike any other - the entire city beaten and battered by water and wind into a glorious meld

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at dawn. Prints from a family of raccoons, a heron, a squirrel with a nut, moonset and other things.

Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch designer & architect, born in Utrecht #OTD 1888, known for his distinctive Red & Blue Chair of 1917 and De Stijl design of Rietveld Schröder House of 1924 (Utrecht) Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln | UNESCO World Heritage

Formidable champion of women in medical profession: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Britain's first qualified woman physician & surgeon, co-founder & Dean of London School of Medicine for Women, first female Dean of British medical school. Portrait: John Singer Sargent 1900, NPG London

”It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...” Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist born in 1812; George Orwell noted “no English writer has written better about childhood...” Portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839, National Portrait Gallery, London | Cartoon Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social

Rubens’ last works included two monumental, pendant landscape views of his manor house Het Steen, oil on panel, c 1636: morning, autumn view with mackerel sky, later influenced Constable; evening ‘Rainbow landscape’ after haymaking, inspires hope. ALT ⁦‪National Gallery London | Wallace Collection

Magnifiques couleurs d’automne dans les forêts au nord de New York 🇺🇸

Back in Athens after far too long. Some cities feel like coming home, Athens is one of them.

The Milestone which sits alongside the Stanegate Roman Road at #Vindolanda fort is one of the very few stones still in its original location out of thousands which must have existed across the UK #archaeology #HadriansWall

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

Miseries of Travelling (Rowlandson, 1807) #art #humour #satire #history

Gondola under construction in a boat-building workshop on Giudecca, Venice

I have just returned from an inspiring conference at @rug.nl, where two @univie.ac.at students gave brilliant poster presentations. I hope I can see where their future paths lead. Seeing students grow academically and personally is such a motivating factor.🏺 #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #AcademisSky

This morning the Dolomites felt within touching distance of Venice (in fact, they're 60 miles away)

”I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.” The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity. Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, died #OTD 1764. Foundling Hospital ALT

Detail of the Romanesque tower at Castor this morning.

Scarification on the face of Long Meg, Cumbria. Neolithic/Bronze Age rock art, including spirals, concentric circles, cup and ring marks and geometric shapes on the side that faces her circle of Daughters 📸 Sept 25 #StandingStoneSunday

Guernica, powerful, monumental antiwar masterpiece, oil on canvas, painted in 1937 by Pablo Picasso, most influential artist of 20th Century; born #OTD 1881. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

Beached vessels and a wagon near Trouville, 1825, oil on canvas by Richard Parkes Bonington, English Romantic artist who worked in France, born #OTD 1802; known for atmospheric watercolours & oil paintings of Normandy coast; admired by Delacroix. Yale University Art Gallery, Centre for British Art

“And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.” Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘father of English literature’, author of The Canterbury Tales, died #OTD 1400; buried at Westminster Abbey. British Library

Discover 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, exploring merchant Francesco Carletti’s world through 69 objects revealing global trade and cultural exchange around 1600, from a Ming Chinese atlas to a Japanese katana. 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 🗓️ Until 9 January 2027 🎫 https://loom.ly/DfIEZBo

This remains one of my favourite manuscripts... I love the purple-dyed parchment. Thanks to the Biblioteca Civica Berio and @archive.org for making this available online. #medievalsky #earlymodern

The famous - and very impressive - lantern at Ely Cathedral 🤩

I don't think that it's been sufficiently advertised, so I'll draw attention to a nice little display of Psalters in the public area, Blackwell Hall, of the Bodleian's Weston Library. Manuscripts and printed books (incl. a Bay Psalm Book), in Hebrew, Latin, Middle English, English ...

I saw that painting just a couple weeks ago in Florence. Stunning! I had to capture the incredible details of the dress.

Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (1872-1944), co-founder of De Stijl, who sought 'the pure reflection of life'; his distinctive works composed of verticals, horizontals & primary colours influenced 20th Century design. Tate | Rijksmuseum

Vigour of genius, refinement of taste: Robert Adam, pre-eminent Scottish Neoclassical architect (1728-1792) redefined English country house & influenced late 18th Century classical taste in Europe and North America. Syon House Entrance Hall | Kenwood House Library | National Portrait Gallery ALT

It’s a dark and stormy night here, with weather warnings for the weekend, but I’m happy to be stuck indoors with my rather battered copy of The Fossil Woman A Life of Mary Anning and the just arrived, crisp, clean (for the time being) proofs of Mary Anning The Companion Guide, due out spring 2027.

‪For #FindsFriday a pendant dating to the Viking Age: a woman is pulling her pretzel-like braids. The hair pulling gesture can be compared to the gesture of mourning known from classical antiquity. It’s unknown if there is a connection to the Viking age imagery.It has been suggested... 🧵1/2 📷️ me

The lock on the door that gives access to the organ at King's College Chapel, Cambridge looked very surprised that I noticed it. Found on the screen erected between 1532-36 by Henry VIII to celebrate his marriage to Anne Boleyn. #IronworkThursday

Old College, Edinburgh, tonight.

Aphrodite riding a swan 🦢 Aphrodite’s mythical birth from the sky and sea as a fully-formed goddess led to her association with all things watery. In classical representations she is frequently accompanied by creatures connected to water, from dolphins to swans and geese.

Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570), influential Italian Mannerist architect, painter & sculptor trained under Giulio Romano, known for complex decorative schemes at Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau school), under patronage of François I, Henri II, François II. Château de Fontainebleau ALT