Sam FitzGibbon

PhD @Cambridge_Uni on early modern Italian travel writing & cultural responses to the age of encounters

Also tweet about art, design, architecture and food!

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@CTAairport Avete gli orari delle navette per oggi??

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Thoughts on the current Morandi show at @Estorick

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In his room – Samuel FitzGibbon on the retiring art of Giorgio Morandi @Estorick https://t.co/yNrYN5jT33

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In his room – the retiring art of Giorgio Morandi https://t.co/yNrYN5jT33

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@scaralbi 'Mi guardo, sono un gatto | Nel giardino del sé'

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@AmyCKing Possibly not exactly what you're after but I remember seeing some government building facades in Milan where fascist symbols had been obviously encased in concrete rather than simply removed

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With the election of Giorgia #Meloni, the lyrics 'Che finimondo per un capello biondo' take on new significance https://t.co/GhJPbUWSQU

#ElezioniPolitiche22 #Elezioni22 #ItalianElections #Italy #Italia

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'a device how a man may passe under the waters to worke any exployt, on the enemy lyeng in any rode', Ralph Rabbards, Inventions of military machines and other devices, 1580-90 #seafever
https://t.co/36bISg5mQU

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@Tomwmarks @Apollo_magazine Her book on Italian regional cooking could do with a new edition too! Very much of its time (80s). Jokes in the intro that Scandinavian smoked salmon is the unifying ingredient of the peninsula!

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@gg_beduschi Yes, for delivering messages

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Woodcut of a spy in Cesare Ripa's 'Iconologia' (1593), wearing a cloak adorned with eyes, ears and tongues

#Italy #Renaissance #EarlyModern #Spies

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A c15 mapmaker at work inside an initial G, filling in the world according to a description in the text he is reading, with a weight-driven clock on the wall behind him and an armillary sphere at his side

From a ms version of Berlinghieri's Geographia (1482)
#Maps #Renaissance

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The Mina Valley today, a permanent city of 160,000 tents. The Abraj Al-Bait clocktower (which stands over the Grand Mosque) is just visible in the background

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Pages from Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius' (1610), including early examples of selenography, i.e. lunar cartography. This one defaced by Apollo 15 commander David Scott

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It was a pleasure to attend the 2022 Venetian Seminar yesterday at St Edmund Hall in #Oxford. Here Maartje van Gelder and Filippo de Vivo present their #research on the conspicuous absence in archives of the 1569 workers' riots.
#Venice #Renaissance #History

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@FergusSG Monica Vitti riposi in pace

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@MarshsLibrary What's the book?

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'Too often, architectural drawings are presented as dry artefacts, records of commissions that were never built, or of ambitious solutions of which architects were never able fully to convince their patrons,' writes @Waslet

https://t.co/OQyUQ5k0G2

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@FergusSG Of course!

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'On the lawn in front of the neoclassical facade of the @FitzMuseum_UK in Cambridge there currently stands a small lime-green octagonal shed with a conical roof, reminiscent of a postmodern jousting pavilion,' writes @samfjf

https://t.co/EET3iwfUgf