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Where would we be on New Year's Eve without the clock! Clockmakers workshop c1590, engraved by Galle after Stradanus
Goltzius' drawing of his deformed hand was a study for the hand of Judas Thaddaeus in his 1589 print cf inscription.
Lancelot "Capability" Brown, who would design 170 British landscape gardens, was born #onthisday in 1716.
In Mantegna's mesmerizing Harrowing of hell, 1468, the figures on the right appear to foreshadow William Blake.
Forgotten painter: Pieter van Anraedt, portrait prob of Rutger Tichler secretary of Deventer. Look at the fab sleeve!