Dr Leah Veronese

Campaign launched to save Oxford's oldest cinema Ultimate Picture Palace needs a longer lease to fund renovations but there are no plans to extend it.

Campaign launched to save Oxford’s oldest cinema

Close up of a passage in a manuscript TEXT Repentance First then Heaven Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.

Brutal reading for a Leah 🤣🤣🙈🙈

'Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.

Embroidered binding for 'The Book of Common Prayer' and bookmark, possibly by Broderers Company, embroidered in London, ca. 1634

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Detail from Crivelli’s Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #snail @earlymodlancs.bsky.social

Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Manuscript Item Details: Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ID: 20836 Has merge history: X New item: - Data source: celm Work: 4784: Silly buzzing wanton elf Manuscript: MS Add. 8684 Page or folio: f.11r-v Author: Richard Crashaw

Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'

Screen shot of STEMMA database entry TEXT Title 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' Heading: Lady Anne Southwell 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' First line: Since thou fair soul art warbling to a sphere

When you leave someone on read too long:

'an elegy to the countess of Londonderry supposing her dead by her long silence' 🥶💀

Portrait of an unknown girl wearing a cap,
Leendert van der Cooghen, 1653 (Rijksmuseum)

The artist was born 9 May 1631 and d. #otd 18 Feb 1681.

In her letter to Lady Ridgway, Folger MS V.b.198, 3r

Photo of an extract of Lady Anne Southwell's letter to Lady Ridgway

How have I never read Anne Southwell's defense of poetry before???? '[Poetry] is the Herald of all Ideas... It is the silke thredd that strings your chayne of pearle; wch being broken, your iewells fall into the rushes; & the more you seeke for it, the more it falls into the dust of oblivion' ❤️

Tulip (Tulipa), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

Rijksmuseum

Photo of a label in a lift Text reads: THOROUGHLY EXAMINED

By viva?

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Just love seeing this at night. @lincoln.ox.ac.uk chapel (1631; north windows of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets).

Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.

By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630 (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)

She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in.

Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.

The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.

I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.

The zebra in this painting belonged to Shah Abbas of Persia who was born #otd 27 Jan 1571. It was presented to him by the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the early 1620s.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

#Doodles - a 17thC super-turban from a library in #Rome (JMcC)

17th century woman's stomacher, #English: silk, weft-faced plain weave; embroidered with silk and metal threads in couched, satin and outline stitches.

(Art Institute Chicago)

Close up of early modern title page Text: BEING A fardle of Fancies, or a medley or Musick, stewed in four Ounces of the Oyl of Epigrams

New favourite subtitle!!?? 'Being
A fardle of Fancies, or a medley or Musick, stewed in four Ounces of the Oyl of Epigrams'

Southwell again: “What were all objects if there were no “I”?/ Or what were “I”s if darkness all invade?”

Madly speedy

University of Galway staff card

Officially a Galway Girl 😁

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Very exciting week here at STEMMA as we welcome TWO new teammates: @meghankern.bsky.social and @leahveronese.bsky.social!

Thank yoouuuu 😁❤️

Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys #otd Married to Sir Francis Knollys, she was a cousin to Elizabeth I and the Chief Lady of the Queen's Bedchamber, oh & mother of 14 children (Yale Center for British Art B1974.3.22, with #dog and a truly fantastic outfit)

John Donne's Architecture yesterday was a wonderful way to end my second Oxford era (2018-2025). Couldn't have imagined a more perfect morning for a final farewell river run today to St Mary's Iffley. Parting is such sweet sorrow, but excited to become a Galway Girl as of next week!

❤️❤️❤️

Fashionable gowns of the 1590s and early 1600s were often worn open in front to reveal a decorative petticoat or forepart underneath. This is #English, made about 1600, of satin embroidered with silk, silver-gilt thread and spangles. (Victoria & Albert Museum)

One of those paintings you see for the first time and think, ‘How have I not seen this before?’ (Or not known that Leamington Spa has a free, council-funded art gallery?) 👍

The secret lives of 17th century #owls (British Museum) Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.