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People of Color in European Art History: Because you wouldn't want to be historically inaccurate. https://t.co/OQGAG5PEyJ
Joined December 2013
People of color are not an anachronism. Art history can be a mirror for everyone, you just have to keep looking. <3 Portrait of a Young Woman, form. att. Jean-Etienne Liotard Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer
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I do mean that. I came back today because I feel so helpless. Waiting to hear. What do you do at a time like this? You do what you can. You thank those who helped you, when you couldn't help yourself. That's what you do.
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I've been doing this since 2013 and I'll never get tired of finding new details. That file really is HUGE.
Hieronymus Bosch Details from The Garden of Earthly Delights Netherlands (c. 1500) Oil on panel, 220 x 195 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid Full resolution: https://t.co/nsYC0yauED (30,000 × 17,078 pixels, file size: 222.86 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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Clemens Specker Österreichische Chronik der 95 Herrschaften [Cod. A 45] f. 74v: Three Chamberlains Germany (1479) https://t.co/E5ImBJDnCz
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This woman from Zanzibar (ostensibly) holding a pangolin has captured my imagination ever since I first laid eyes on a grainy, black-and-white photocopy of this painting almost a decade ago https://t.co/oxcYluaeAb
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"Made by the sculptor Erasmus Grasser in 1480, the Morris Dancers rank among the most valuable items in the Münchner Stadtmuseum's collections." https://t.co/wcPnO2TV9v
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Miniature accompanying the Bohemian translation of the Song of Songs in Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 1175. fol. 221v: Solomon standing between his mother Bathsheba, and the Queen of Sheba. https://t.co/Y4kM0Kvuqy
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Universitätsbibliotek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 7 Folio 4r: True Sages Bavaria (c. 1420s) https://t.co/OoJ8u2R0mm
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It is once again a good time to do that
It's a great time to search the ever-expanding online collections of museums. For example, here's a selection of what you can find searching for "Adoration of the Magi" on @metmuseum's website: https://t.co/oqaVJ5lwSH
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Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop Saint Maurice German (c. 1520s) Oil on wood; 54 x 15 ½ in. (137.2 x 39.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://t.co/uEkRWG9xw7
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#medievaltwitter, a new article by @ProfCWhit about struggles with racism and white-washed narratives that are weaponized by white supremacists. Also featuring Dr. Ayanna Thompson who discusses the importance of #raceb4race. #shakerace h/t @dorothyk98
editions.mydigitalpublication.com
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Oh it's that time of year again. Please follow @PublicMedieval and read their excellent collection of articles about the Middle Ages but especially this one on race
publicmedievalist.com
In February, 2017, The Public Medievalist inaugurated a new special series of essays on one of the thorniest issues surrounding the Middle Ages today: Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages. Issues of...
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Aw, thank you for all your kind comments on our Blog's 10th anniversary. We're touched to know how much it means to so many of you. We'll endeavour to keep up the good work. Just for you, here are some images from the blogpost Lolcats of the Middle Ages https://t.co/56K2K2BNvd
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Sports is cancelled. Reading is not. This is our chance to reset our distracted minds. Stay healthy. Stay safe. Give help to those who help those unable to help themselves do either. And somewhere in there, in the quiet... Read something life changing.
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As we move to online teaching let’s all remember that we are human and business as usual is not a viable option in a crisis. Our moral and ethical obligations should orient us toward a pedagogy of care and compassion for ourselves and our students. #CovidCampus
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For a spot of positivity, please know that I only survived last year due to people who believed so strongly in my work they kept supporting me, even when I was too ill to do it. Individuals have immense power to help others. Don't forget that.
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Accessible Teaching In The Time Of Covid 19: https://t.co/ogCWxNoFb1
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I’ll also try posting some resources for people like me, hand-to-mouth freelancers doing hard-to-categorize work and dependent on finding something to make the most basic of ends meet.
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I don’t know If I’ll be up to checking notifications or anything like that right away. But I will be posting some resources for online pedagogy and stuff like that, since that’s kind of what I’ve been talking about since 2013.
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