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Almost #ice #skating time in the Netherlands! #Earlymodern #Winter scene #Utrecht painter JC Droochsloot, c.1629, Prado with naughty detail and many #dogs. #schaatsen #schaatskoorts https://t.co/HDBhEH0FiU
Here the same model with an #earlymodern iron stove, Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1661-62, #rijksmuseum and part of a stove with the coat of arms of #Amsterdam. #koud https://t.co/dRh125Dfoi
Great find! @ColeccionMMoret showed the mirror drawn version of #cat and #dog at @britishmuseum. (with even more #cats!) https://t.co/PAzSo1jfrb https://t.co/v1rdGR8loJ
Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Jan de Beer with one of the weirdest #earlymodern #cats I have ever seen. Check out the #book or manuscript. 1510-20, coll. @Pinakotheken 1/2
How I feel myself these days... Temptation of St. Anthony (Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, Vitae Patrum) by Jan Wellens de Cock (ca 1470-1521/1527), coll.@Muzeum_Narodowe @MemesMedieval @hoxha
Happy #horse on blue background for #bluemonday by Joris Hoefnagel c.1552-1601, #rijksmuseum to bright up your #bluemonday2021.
#Earlymodern #Ottoman #Turkish horseman by Johan van Boenenborch, c.1601, in album amicorum of J. Walraven van Stepraedt, 1598-1633, @geldersarchief, perhaps made during the siege of Stuhlweissenburg / Székesfehérvár, #Hungary in 1601.
https://t.co/RZ0gJTjo9G
A similar #earlymodern image by my favorite historiographer Iohannes Bocatius is about a child born with a double head, seen as an #allegory on the rule of #Hungary. This pamphlet contains the arguments of the #Hungarian insurgents and the #Habsburg king, c.1620, @britishmuseum https://t.co/wjv4CTOhnf
Remember ill-fated Marcus Baxam from #Hungary? I have just found a drawing of him with two (!) arrows in his head, politely greeting two #Hungarian noble women, drawn and engraved by Joris Hoefnagel in 1597 coll.@BeineckeLibrary. #earlymodern #morbidmonday
https://t.co/hLbw1tFpp5 https://t.co/kC9Jna7xDb
Weird #religious image for strange times: rare three-headed trinity, ca.1700, coll.@MuseumKrona. These kind of #earlymodern images were forbidden by Pope Urbanus VIII in 1628 as too pagan. https://t.co/5NDhixaLZ6