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The small #horse by Johan Wierx after Dürer, c.1566. Look at those legs!
#Earlymodern #heavymetal: the #devil blows the air for the pipe organ on which the Cantus Diabolicus (Devilish music) is played. A man is dancing to the diabolic music and rhythm of a drum. Rome, c.1608. @ThE_ED @HuubBellemakers https://t.co/t5enKe9Tjj
Historic hands on handles, #DenHaag in the oldste Dutch horse riding school of the Netherlands
#Falling on #Friday. Hendrick Goltzius, The Four Disgracers, c.1588, coll. @metmuseum
Only surviving #earlymodern wig I could find, coll. #rijksmuseum, c.1700 and some #delftware wig stands, c.1680-80, coll. @V_and_A The wig even contains its original powder! https://t.co/8PY01phvC1
Concerning #earlymodern fashion we have only a few poor man's clothes and much more rich wardrobes came to us. Luckely this extremely rare Dutch farmer's (!) cap survived harsh #earlymodern Dutch winters, c. 1650-1700, coll. #rijksmuseum.
Image of Humanist Scholar and #Protestant Saint: Hungarian Calvinist Albert Szenci Molnár in 1600 and on the title page of his #Hungarian translation of Calvin's Institutio, 1624. He was tortured after the Siege of Heidelberg, 1622. See: https://t.co/Ym2euEcnH8
#Earlymodern dog lovers beware: best jug #design ever. Enea Vico, c.1533 - 1567, coll. #rijksmuseum https://t.co/gJdLzlgiux
Totally, totally weird #earlymodern image: Mr Lemmengast cannot divorce from his adulterous wife due to Cath. Church, and therefore sells her together with his house, while he nailed her ear to the wall. Balthazar van den Bos after M. van Cleve (I), ca.1528-80, coll.#rijksmuseum
Earliest and only individual portrait of a black African, c.1525-30, coll. #rijksmuseum. On his bonnet there is a gold or silver-gilt pilgrim’s badge of Our Lady of Hall in Belgium, which can also a interpreted as a sign of his Christianity and trustworthiness.