@laurafg
Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress #architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa Own views 🌈 she/her
The programme for the Lincoln Medieval and Early Modern Week 2026 has been announced 🎉
With papers by Mariana Ramos de Lima on the Cantigas; Raluca Radulescu on Arthurian Romance, & author Mary Dockray-Miller! Yours truly will also speak about early modern Goa, too.
Come and join us if you can!
A row of wooden multicoloured houses in New Orleans with a street sign that reads Cádiz St
Of course Cádiz St in Uptown-New Orleans is on my way to the library
En route
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Entrance of the Tulane Latin American library. A large rectangular grey banner with the title The Latin American Library
A view of a red brick building in New Orleans. Fortune tellers sitting on their chairs in front of the Cathedral (not on view)
Oak tres in a park with bright blue skies. The oak trees branches are horizontally elongated as if they are trying to reach each other to hold hands.
Excited about my incoming visit to Tulane-New Orleans.
I shall work in the amazing Latin American library& act as respondent in the Latin American Architecture conference organised by Barbara Mundy & Maryluna Santos.
Mil gracias - Tulane Morrill grants & Art History team for the warm welcome 🙏
Entrance of the Tulane Latin American library. A large rectangular grey banner with the title The Latin American Library
A view of a red brick building in New Orleans. Fortune tellers sitting on their chairs in front of the Cathedral (not on view)
Oak tres in a park with bright blue skies. The oak trees branches are horizontally elongated as if they are trying to reach each other to hold hands.
Excited about my incoming visit to Tulane-New Orleans.
I shall work in the amazing Latin American library& act as respondent in the Latin American Architecture conference organised by Barbara Mundy & Maryluna Santos.
Mil gracias - Tulane Morrill grants & Art History team for the warm welcome 🙏
Rudolf Wittkower had a 2nd major in archaeology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Uni in Berlin (now Humboldt-Uni) when he defended his dissertation in art history in 1923 - as required of all art historians there at the time.
Archaeology at the Humboldt-Uni has been *so* influential!
Sign the petition!
Grey Shetland pony with snow around and the sea behind
After weeks of gales the islands are enjoying snow, sunshine and stillness #Shetland
Screenshot of the announcement of the SAH conference programme
Details about the panel in which I will speak about the Colonial Building Industry in the Americas
17:434 川 Program Session Chairs: Alexander Wood, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Room: Doña Socorro 10:30 AM Introduction 10:35 AM Building Colonial Lima: Indigenous, African and European Architects and Builders., Laura Fernández-González, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 10:50 AM Mastering the System: Regulating Labor in colonial America c. 1720, Erik Carver, USC, USA 11:05 AM Constructing a Royal Mint: State Building and Labor in the Andes, Lucia Galaretto, Columbia University, USA 11:20 AM Two Hundred Years of Construction: Fortifying Old Point Comfort and the Emergence of the Building Industry, Michael Osman, UCLA, USA 11:35 AM From Knowledge to Capital: Early Timber-Architecture Education and the Rise of the Construction Industry in Colonial New England (1650-1750), Sky Ming Li, China; Jieyi Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; and Jie Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China AM Q&A/Discussion
The programme for the Society of Architectural Historians’ conference in Mexico City has been announced.
The variety of themes is wonderful. I’m excited to speak about my research on architects and builders of colonial Lima!
See the programme in this link: sah.org/conferences/...
🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Permanent lectureship in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long 18C. Must have PhD in hand at application.
Deadline 12th March; job talks/interviews 1st & 2nd April for ASAP start.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-...
3 weeks to decide, 9 months salary to choose to leave - almost certainly forever - the industry you've dedicated most of your adult life to.
Drawing of a horse head with worried googly eyes.
Happy Year of the Horse
It's lovely to see my book, 'Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire', among excellent books in the 'new and best-selling books' from one of the Penn State University Press' subject series, namely, Art and Architectural History -Latin America, here: www.psupress.org/books/subjec...
Working on #OAbooks or in Humanities or Social Sciences academic book publication (through a learned society, press or OA initiative)? Don't be left out in the cold (project contact address in link below).
New job at UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 'Lecturer in History of Art, Materials, and Technology'. Deadline 1 March. Please circulate/apply!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
More news about this year's conference season :)
Excited about this lecture about my research on early modern Goa at the University of Manchester (13 May). Looking forward to discussing with colleagues.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-e...
Screenshot of the announcement of the SAH conference programme
Details about the panel in which I will speak about the Colonial Building Industry in the Americas
17:434 川 Program Session Chairs: Alexander Wood, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Room: Doña Socorro 10:30 AM Introduction 10:35 AM Building Colonial Lima: Indigenous, African and European Architects and Builders., Laura Fernández-González, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 10:50 AM Mastering the System: Regulating Labor in colonial America c. 1720, Erik Carver, USC, USA 11:05 AM Constructing a Royal Mint: State Building and Labor in the Andes, Lucia Galaretto, Columbia University, USA 11:20 AM Two Hundred Years of Construction: Fortifying Old Point Comfort and the Emergence of the Building Industry, Michael Osman, UCLA, USA 11:35 AM From Knowledge to Capital: Early Timber-Architecture Education and the Rise of the Construction Industry in Colonial New England (1650-1750), Sky Ming Li, China; Jieyi Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; and Jie Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China AM Q&A/Discussion
The programme for the Society of Architectural Historians’ conference in Mexico City has been announced.
The variety of themes is wonderful. I’m excited to speak about my research on architects and builders of colonial Lima!
See the programme in this link: sah.org/conferences/...
Jacquelyn Stucker covers Rosalía's single 'Berghain' with violinist Stefano Montanari and pianist Hannah Quinn
Rosalía – Berghain-Lux (opera cover). Royal Opera House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0q...
Jacquelyn Stucker covers Rosalía's single 'Berghain' with violinist Stefano Montanari and pianist Hannah Quinn
Rosalía – Berghain-Lux (opera cover). Royal Opera House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0q...
Representation of people from Malabar in Linschoten's Itinerario. Etching, black ink over paper.
This fellow, found in one of the etchings from Linschoten's Itinerario, spoke to me in dreams last night. I cannot recall what he said.
Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE?
Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.
!["Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]
c. 1512/1515, French early 16th Century (National Gallery of Art) Two male friends holding a heart, above them allegorical figures of ANIMUS holding a scale and the hands of two blindfolded women with their hands on a wheel https://www.nga.gov/artworks/86038-friendship-equality-friend-another-self-fol-10-recto](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkjqfvtcfakukddedpzrefm2/bafkreidnbk5qbwn5zfebokcwv72p3kcypbc7f5zcdtfeaqehkvzamf2xou@jpeg)
"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto] c. 1512/1515, French early 16th Century (National Gallery of Art) Two male friends holding a heart, above them allegorical figures of ANIMUS holding a scale and the hands of two blindfolded women with their hands on a wheel https://www.nga.gov/artworks/86038-friendship-equality-friend-another-self-fol-10-recto
Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self!
Welcome new followers! Here are a few tips for succeeding on Bluesky from the Speculum principis, c. 1512:
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected - art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study found that people who engaged regularly with the arts had a 31% lower risk of dying at any point during the follow-up period, even when confounding socioeconomic, demographic and health factors were taken into account. Studies also show that visiting museums and attending live music events can make people physiologically younger, and a monthly cultural activity almost halves our chances of depression. As Fancourt argues, if a drug boasted such benefits governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector and arts education has been devalued and eroded in the UK.
‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
Bodega El Molino
Torre Riquelme in the Bodegas Fundador
Bodega de La Luz
Bodega El Molino
I was lucky enough to visit the splendid Bodegas Fundador -Domecq before travelling today
Thank you, Carsten. That’s my hope too. But because of a fault in their system we almost lost our flight from the UK, and I won’t trust any logic will be applied until I see it… also good luck to whoever sits besides our 2-year old…
Interior arches in the bodega La Mezquita
Andanas and arches in the Bodega La Mezquita
Tremendous interior with sherry wine casks and arches in the bodega
Bodega La Mezquita, 1974, Domecq, Jerez
Stork over a cloudy sky
Santiago’s Church bell tower with a a stork’s nest in Jerez
Grey clouds over the Plaza San Juan in Jerez with the Pemartín palace and a renaissance townhouse on the left hand side
Storks and grey clouds over palaces and churches in Jerez
#stork #greyclouds #winterscenes
