Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

animal-aspects.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:40

Happy #InternationalSlothDay! Fernández de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lost…but not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:

Dr Ellie Hardy

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18 October 2026 07:39

Book history people! Please apply to come and work with @ies-sas.bsky.social! Tell your friends to apply! We are a lovely team and this is an exciting opportunity to join us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

womensartbluesky.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:39

Katharine Hepburn (1938), multiple Oscar winning US actress who also helped popularise trouser wearing for women #Womensart

Dr Anna Clark

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18 October 2026 07:38

‘The Tailor’ c 1570, by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520-1578), Italian Mannerist painter of restrained, subtle portraits with silvery tonality, inspired by Titian & Lotto. The portrait, originally owned by the Venetian Grimani family, is probably of a woollen cloth merchant. National Gallery London

Victoria Haddock

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18 October 2026 07:38

Actress Kate Winslet was born #OnThisDay in 1975. She wore this Jenny Beavan and John Bright designed c. 1805 cream cotton dress printed with green dots and a green velvet sleeveless spencer as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #film #costume