Exquisite vault decorations by Pietro Perugino, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia, 1497-1500.
Planetary gods and signs of the zodiac are depicted with Apollo in the centre. There are lots of fantastical images known as ‘grotesques’ so called because they were found throughout the recently rediscovered, long-buried caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s elaborate Domus Aurea (Golden House).
Detail of Apollo
Detail of Jupiter.
Exquisite vault decorations by Pietro Perugino, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia, 1497-1500.
♏ Planetary gods and signs of the zodiac are depicted with Apollo in the centre.
🗝️ Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians 🏺 #caturday #frescofriday
06.03.2026 08:56
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Exquisite vault decorations by Pietro Perugino, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia, 1497-1500.
Planetary gods and signs of the zodiac are depicted with Apollo in the centre. There are lots of fantastical images known as ‘grotesques’ so called because they were found throughout the recently rediscovered, long-buried caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s elaborate Domus Aurea (Golden House).
Detail of Apollo
Detail of Jupiter.
Exquisite vault decorations by Pietro Perugino, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia, 1497-1500.
♏ Planetary gods and signs of the zodiac are depicted with Apollo in the centre.
🗝️ Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-...
🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians 🏺 #caturday #frescofriday
06.03.2026 08:56
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A Hoopoe, a beautiful bird with a crown of feathers of his head with black tips. (Photo by Iamranabd)
🐦 A 'Hoopoe' could be a Dr. Seuss character! I’ve decided not to watch the news this week but focus on art & beauty in all its expressions. This bird is an artwork of nature & made me laugh so here it is!
Join me here: ideasroadshow.substack.com
🗃️ #arthistory #art #bird #birdsky #photography
05.03.2026 12:45
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Page from an lluminated manuscript from The Aberdeen Bestiary. There is a unicorn and bear plus a dog or wolf in the margins.
🦄 Look at this wonderfully illuminated manuscript from The Aberdeen Bestiary. Note the dog or wolf in the margins!
#WorldBookDay #booksky 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky #skystorians
05.03.2026 12:05
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Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Denmark, 1900. A painting of light coming through a window with a beautiful reflection on the ground and a door, The colours are all muted.
Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Denmark, 1900.
#AdoorableThursday 🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians
05.03.2026 08:25
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A map of the so-called Grand Tour routes taken by renowned 18th and 19th-century writers.
Hello new subscribers & welcome! 🚗 We’re here to take you on a Grand Tour through the ages driven by unlimited curiosity & meticulous research. Our focus is on Italian Renaissance art but no art movement, decade or culture is left unexplored!
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #academia #medievalsky #art 🏺
04.03.2026 12:30
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art from the illuminated manuscript The Aberdeen Bestiary showing 3 coloured beehives and lots of bees flying in heads-down.
art from the illuminated manuscript The Aberdeen Bestiary showing an owl in a circle.
More fantastical art from the illuminated manuscript The Aberdeen Bestiary! 🐝 De Apibus (About Bees) is particularly comical with the bees diving head-down into the hives & check out the serious owl with eyebrows!🦉
#WorldBookDay #booksky 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #medievalsky #skystorians #bee #owl
05.03.2026 15:02
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Wow, that must have been a good start to your day!
05.03.2026 13:17
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A Hoopoe, a beautiful bird with a crown of feathers of his head with black tips. (Photo by Iamranabd)
🐦 A 'Hoopoe' could be a Dr. Seuss character! I’ve decided not to watch the news this week but focus on art & beauty in all its expressions. This bird is an artwork of nature & made me laugh so here it is!
Join me here: ideasroadshow.substack.com
🗃️ #arthistory #art #bird #birdsky #photography
05.03.2026 12:45
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Page from an lluminated manuscript from The Aberdeen Bestiary. There is a unicorn and bear plus a dog or wolf in the margins.
🦄 Look at this wonderfully illuminated manuscript from The Aberdeen Bestiary. Note the dog or wolf in the margins!
#WorldBookDay #booksky 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky #skystorians
05.03.2026 12:05
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Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Denmark, 1900. A painting of light coming through a window with a beautiful reflection on the ground and a door, The colours are all muted.
Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Denmark, 1900.
#AdoorableThursday 🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians
05.03.2026 08:25
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Only Connect
The power of art
🖌️A Physicist’s Brush with Art: 'The thing about being human is that, like it or not, we need other humans. We need to matter and love. For all their crystalline magnificence, equations alone can not fully give us sustenance.'
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #physics
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/only-connect
04.03.2026 09:41
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A 15th-century Spanish door knocker made of wrought iron in the shape of a very stylish dog.
🐾 An up-side down dog? Modern art? Nope, a 15th-century Spanish door knocker in the shape of a very stylish dog.
🏛️ Met
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #Spain #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky #skystorians
04.03.2026 16:02
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A map of the so-called Grand Tour routes taken by renowned 18th and 19th-century writers.
Hello new subscribers & welcome! 🚗 We’re here to take you on a Grand Tour through the ages driven by unlimited curiosity & meticulous research. Our focus is on Italian Renaissance art but no art movement, decade or culture is left unexplored!
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #academia #medievalsky #art 🏺
04.03.2026 12:30
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Detail of Venus and her flowing hair from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
🌊 "All the panegyrics about Botticelli’s “famously undulating line” mean very little unless we find ourselves thinking, Oh yes, that wonderful flowing hair!"
Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #medievalsky #art
03.03.2026 15:20
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Only Connect
The power of art
🖌️A Physicist’s Brush with Art: 'The thing about being human is that, like it or not, we need other humans. We need to matter and love. For all their crystalline magnificence, equations alone can not fully give us sustenance.'
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #physics
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/only-connect
04.03.2026 09:41
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An ancient Roman gemstone engraved with a grasshopper driving a chariot drawn by two butterflies. The stone is reddish set in a golden ring.
🦋 A Roman gemstone engraved with a grasshopper driving a chariot drawn by two butterflies, c. 1st-3rd AD 🦋
🏛️ British Museum
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Roman #Greek
04.03.2026 07:58
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The tilted head of Cycladic Stargazer.
Cycladic Stargazer
How often do you look at the stars? ✨ This Cycladic Stargazer has been observing them for more than 6,000 years! ✨
🔴 Check it out tonight - you might be able to see a special blood moon as well!
🏛️ Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #art #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Greek
03.03.2026 17:09
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Detail of Venus and her flowing hair from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
🌊 "All the panegyrics about Botticelli’s “famously undulating line” mean very little unless we find ourselves thinking, Oh yes, that wonderful flowing hair!"
Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #medievalsky #art
03.03.2026 15:20
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Screenshot of our Exploring Art History substack showing that we are no on #17 in their top 100 for Arts & Illustration.
🥳 Great to see we're rising on our substack for intellectually curious art lovers.
Please subscribe or follow us there as well to support our work thanks in advance! ❤️ Visit here: ideasroadshow.substack.com
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #academia #medievalsky #art
03.03.2026 12:20
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#mosaicmonday
02.03.2026 20:54
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Roman mosaic panel with birds drinking water and eating, Museo Ostiense
One of the many parakeets in Rome
❤️ 🦜 Love this! The exhibition 'Flightpaths' organized by the American Academy in Rome. Read what happened when 1,000 (!) were released in Rome in 1999 🦜 aarome.org/events/exhib...
Below is a #Roman mosaic panel, Museo Ostiense.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #birds #Rome 🏺
02.03.2026 20:53
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Hellespontine Sibyl, a floor mosaic in the Siena cathedral and on the right close-up details of wolf and lion.
🐺🦁 For #mosaicmonday take a look at the wolf & lion shaking paws under the prophecy of the Hellespontine Sibyl.
🔎 Read about the captivating stories behind this entente: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺 #medievalsky
02.03.2026 10:12
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Visual Enlightenment
The benefits of opening your eyes
Read about the importance of looking closely at art and the many captivating details and connections you'll be able to discover.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺 #medievalsky
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
02.03.2026 09:11
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Hellespontine Sibyl, a floor mosaic in the Siena cathedral and on the right close-up details of wolf and lion.
🐺🦁 For #mosaicmonday take a look at the wolf & lion shaking paws under the prophecy of the Hellespontine Sibyl.
🔎 Read about the captivating stories behind this entente: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺 #medievalsky
02.03.2026 10:12
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Visual Enlightenment
The benefits of opening your eyes
Read about the importance of looking closely at art and the many captivating details and connections you'll be able to discover.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺 #medievalsky
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/visual-enl...
02.03.2026 09:11
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Mosaic panel in which March is positioned as the first month of the year, 3rd c. AD, Roman Tunesia.
🔍 When you look closely, you can see two men dressed in animal skins beating an old man - from the ancient Greek szPharmakos ritual to get rid of the old year.
Happy March! #Roman mosaic panel in which March is positioned as the 1st month of the year, 3rd c. AD, Tunesia.
🔍 Two men in 🐅 skins beating up an old man to get rid of the old year based on the ancient Pharmakos ritual.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺
01.03.2026 12:36
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An illustration of dog treating a sick cat from a 15th-century manuscript.
The reduced version of the same image just showing the dog, cat in bed and a thistle.
🥼 🐕 A therapy dog treating a cat for (perhaps) melancholy,
Detail of a 15th-c. manuscript, unknown artist. Edinburgh University Library. On the right the reduced version.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #catsofbluesky #caturday #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky
28.02.2026 11:07
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Mosaic panel in which March is positioned as the first month of the year, 3rd c. AD, Roman Tunesia.
🔍 When you look closely, you can see two men dressed in animal skins beating an old man - from the ancient Greek szPharmakos ritual to get rid of the old year.
Happy March! #Roman mosaic panel in which March is positioned as the 1st month of the year, 3rd c. AD, Tunesia.
🔍 Two men in 🐅 skins beating up an old man to get rid of the old year based on the ancient Pharmakos ritual.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #mosaicmonday #academia #art 🏺
01.03.2026 12:36
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A tiny dog on a huge red chair called Siegfried by Thomas Theodor Heine, 1921.
🐾 ♥️ Just had to share this little guy called Siegfried by Thomas Theodor Heine, 1921.
Visit Exploring Art History: substack.com/@ideasroadshow
🗃️ #arthistory #caturday #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs
01.03.2026 12:09
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