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For the 4th of February, our #17thCenturyMasterpiece is 'Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, Cupid and Apollo', 1600, by Hendrik de Clerck.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
For the 14th of January, our #17thCenturyMasterpiece is 'Two Ladies of the Lake Family', c.1660, by Sir Peter Lely. Tate. #KeepItStuart
For the 7th of January, our #17thCenturyMasterpiece is Laocoön, made 1610-1614, by El Greco. National Gallery of Art.
🎄❄️Hear ye! 'Tis time for Day 17 of The Seventeenth Century Lady's #17thCenturyAdventCalendar! Today, we have this beloved work by Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals: 'The Laughing Cavalier', 1624.
The Wallace Collection, London. 🎄❄️
Late as I've been pottering in the garden b/c it's such a gloriously sunny day here in Derbyshire...
HEAR YE! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday! This week's topic is:
❄️⛈️☀️*Weather events in the Stuart-era*☀️⛈️❄️
Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois, (1621 – 1676), 'Ships on a Stormy Sea'.
Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday!
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, son of James II (VII) & Arabella Churchill, was decapitated by a cannonball #OTD 12 June 1734.
This week's theme:
💀😱😖Grisly Stuart Ends😖😱💀
#KeepItStuart
I love this print by Bernard Picart, c. 1683-1723, so much. Rijksmuseum. #SexAndSexualityInStuartBritain
Charles Le Brun, a French #Baroque painter, was born 24 February 1619. #LouisXIV #17thCentury #art #BaroquetasticBirthday
🎄Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄
❄ Hear ye! 'Tis time for the 24th day of The Seventeenth Century Lady's 2020 Advent Calendar! ❄
Behind Door No. 24...
Sassoferrato's 'The Virgin in Prayer, 1640-50.
National Gallery, London. #17thCentury #ChristmasEve