Chris

Librarian up to no good. Libraries/Archives/Museums/Cultural Heritage/Art+Antiquities Crime. Tea. Russian symphonies. Piles of books. Plants. Renaissance masses

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Who needs a blue check when you have a BLUE WHALE?

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

The legendary composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, was born #OnThisDay, 150 years ago.

His music has touched millions and continues to inspire new generations of musicians around the world.

Join us in celebrating his contribution to classical music and his enduring legacy ✨

[Oscar the Grouch @OscarTheGrouch]

New year. Same me.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Reading a book you just purchased when your TBR pile has been growing & waiting for you to read one of them.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Santa: And what do you want for Christmas this year?
Me:

[Yukon Cornelius 🇵🇸 @NeeedlesEye]

the problem with books is they always cite more books and then where are you

[John Singer Sargent @artistsargent]

Breakfast in the Loggia, 1910 #sargent #impressionism https://t.co/271Jglvbvo

[Jean-Honoré Fragonard @ArtistFragonard]

Blind man's buff, 1776 #jeanhonorefragonard #rococo https://t.co/F6dSrcUQiS

[Henri Martin @HenriMartinArt]

Fountain in My Garden, 1904 #martin #henrimartin https://t.co/rKDKZuzyB1

[Canaletto @ArtistCanaletto]

View of the Entrance to the Arsenal, 1732 #baroque #canaletto https://t.co/dV9mpd6HeQ

[Canaletto @ArtistCanaletto]

Canaletto, The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, c. 1740 #artsmia #canaletto https://t.co/FDpkW91M79

[Jean-Honoré Fragonard @ArtistFragonard]

A Young Girl Reading, 1776 #fragonard #rococo https://t.co/SCok0i4wN1

[Ivan Aivazovski @aivazovski_art]

The Black Sea at night, 1879 #romanticism #ivanaivazovsky

[Jean-Honoré Fragonard @ArtistFragonard]

The Progress of Love The Pursuit, 1773 #fragonard #jeanhonorefragonard

[You Are Alone In The Archive... @archivist_bot]

Are you even alive, dear Archivist? Perhaps you are some kind of phantom obsessing over worlds gone by.

[Giovanni Battista Piranesi @ArtistPiranesi]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Interior of a Church, 18th century https://t.co/V3GXMIp0ki #giovannibattistapiranesi

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

the other day a very nice lady came in with her grandson because she was taking him on a 'smell tour of London' and she wanted a book for them to smell, so I fetched them a book, they smelled it, and I've been having an existential crisis about where my life is at ever since

[Chris @c_d_nee]

Back to back online music history seminar and rare book organization meeting and it's like grad school, but with none of the stress and ALL of the furious notes and 'I need to research more into this later'.

[The Met: Cloisters @met_cloisters]

Window, ca. 1500 https://t.co/nFiOilwPlr #themet #metmuseum