Dr Anna Clark

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20 October 2026 05:33

‘The Dutch Claude’, Aelbert Cuyp, Baroque artist known for golden riverscapes & peaceful bucolic scenes; born in Dordrecht #OTD 1620, his early works (1640’s) were inspired by Van Goyen. View of the Maas near Dordrecht c 1645 @gettymuseum.bsky.social | Cows in River c 1650, Museum Fine Arts Budapest

Dr Anna Clark

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19 October 2026 05:47

”Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after it.” Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin, author of A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, died #OTD 1745; champion of liberty, whose Saeva Indignatio inspired Voltaire, Yeats, Joyce, Orwell. Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Sarah Parcak

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18 October 2026 17:19

Does Abdul al-Sayed reject Akhenaten and the move of the capital to Tell el Amarna?

Dr Anna Clark

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17 October 2026 06:26

Master of illusion: perspectival frescoes at Villa Farnesina Rome c. 1518, by Baldassare Peruzzi, versatile Italian Mannerist architect & artist (1481-1536); apprenticed to Bramante, worked with Raphael & Sangallo, left drawings to pupil Serlio for publication. Sala delle Prospettive Villa Farnesina

Dr Anna Clark

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15 October 2026 05:19

”Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt…” Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), poet of Ancient Rome, whose epic Aeneid inspired Western art & literature; born #OTD 70 BC. Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672, by Claude Lorrain National Gallery London