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4. He never considered giving the Spranger to a museum other than the Rijksmuseum. "I am and will remain an Amsterdammer. My parents are buried there.”
Missed it at Tefaf but it will be on display from 1 June so I'll see it on the 5th!
An art gift commemorating corona victims
1. Art dealer Bob Haboldt has donated an oil on copper Pietà by Bartholomeus Spranger to the Rijksmuseum as a tribute to the victims of the corona pandemic. It is unsigned and undated and not previously mentioned in Spranger literature.
Cities and extraordinary natural phenomena (seen at the time as signs sent from God) in the mid-sixteenth century 'Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch' ('Book of Miracles')
So it's #WorldNakedGardeningDay2020 Gardening Day. #naakttuinierendag
Social distancing.
Konrad Kyeser, Bellifortis
Illustrated by Clauss Pflieger (?)
Similar images are to be found in other manuscripts of Kyeser’s Bellifortis, e.g. Wien, ÖNB Cod. 3068, fol. 76v
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, MS Thott.290.2º, f. 44r
1459
In 1375 a man named Löfler was burned as a heretic outside the city of Bern. He was accused of being a member of the "free spirit movement" (a notion for different mystical-pantheistic groups in medieval Christianity since the 13th c). Diebold Schilling: Spiezer Chronik, 1484/85
Happy pelican marginalia. #firstdayofspring
BL Egerton 1146
Book of Hours, Use of Worms, with elements of a Breviary
Germany (Worms?)
c1475-1485