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So far Melbourne's Gothic ANZ Bank has escaped the wrecker's ball

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Three Dishes of Sweetmeats and Chestnuts with Three Glasses on a Table by Osias Beert (1580 - 1624)

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Rafael Romero Barros (Spanish, 1832-1895) Still life with oranges, 1863

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Michael Parkes "Dante and Beatrice" 1993

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Ship, by anonymous, 1600 - 1699

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Giovanni de' Pazzi had married the daughter of Giovanni Buonromei, a very wealthy man, whose riches on his decease, without other children, came to his daughter. His nephew, Carlo, however, took possession of part, and the question being litigated, a law was passed, by virtue of which the wife of Giovanni de' Pazzi was robbed of her inheritance, and it was given to Carlo. In this piece of injustice the Pazzi at once recognized the influence of the Medici. Giuliano de' Medici often complained to his brother Lorenzo of the affair, saying he was afraid that by grasping at too much they would lose all.

Machiavelli, Florentine Histories

I was going to say that Francesco should've been allowed to stab Lorenzo twice over, but he (along with Baroncelli) did get Giuliano somewhere between twelve and nineteen times. so. that's something.

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hi!! It’s so exciting that you’re working in archives! I’m about to finish my master of library and information science (US) and have been working in archives throughout this degree and my undergraduate degree.

One thing I wish I had gotten in my first archival internships (that I later learned through the degree program) was really just access and understanding of professional standards and theory (I.e., in the US when we write finding aids and process archival collections, we tend to base rudimentary decisions about materials on stands such as ISAD-G and DACS). I’m not sure if those materials are used in Europe, but I’m certain there’s equivalents cause archivists love to nitpick about rules. It’s best to learn archives hands-on working in one, but that general theory and familiarity with local and international professional standards makes it easier, in my opinion, to take experiences in one archive and apply them to the next. I had a really hard time taking the work I’d done in college and figuring out how to use the knowledge and skills I’d learned there at the archive I work at now because while they’re similar collections in content, one was run by archivists and one was run by people who found themselves responsible for an archive, and I didn’t learn a lot of the language, tools, etc, that are reasonably universal across archives.

I hope this helps! Archival work is so much fun; there’s always hidden treasures, and its so interesting to learn about a place or a time through materials contemporary to it ☺️

Ah, I so so wish that inventories/finding aids in Europe used standards... so many of them are just bad photocopies of (often inaccurate) inventories made in the 19th century! But yes, I'm definitely going to talk with them about how archives are formed and what information you can find in an inventory vs looking at the actual documents. Thanks for the input!!

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Michael Eastman B. 1947 - Portici Stairwell

Source: phillips.com

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I'm organising a summer seminar/internship programme on archival work in Florence and could use some input. For those of you who have done archival work, what sort of things did you wish you knew at the very beginning? And for those of you who don't have any experience, what do you want to know about the most?

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Book club paintings vol. 6 ♡ Girl Reading by Charles Edward Perugini / 2nd image is a detail from unknown painting

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1522 Franciabigio - Portrait of a man, probably Matteo Sofferoni

(Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

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(via Go Inside Victoria Hagan’s First NY Apartment – Frederic Magazine)

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Palermo, Sicily, 1994 - by William Albert Allard (1937), American

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023