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The Virgin as a child, spinning thread in the Temple of Jerusalem - garlanded by flowers - late C17th, Cuzco School, (a story from the apocryphal gospels) #Peru #EarlyModern #flowers #C17th #SacredArt #artwork
Watercolour tulip ~ Alexander Marshal, c1650 ~ Marshal was an English gentleman gardener rather than a professional artist. He shared his paintings among his friends ~ exploring the scientific traits of plants.
#gardens #EarlyModern #Flowers #C17th #watercolour #artwork
Tulip, butterfly &, rather less appealingly, bluebottle ~ Seventeenth Century ~ Balthasar van der Ast #Dutch #EarlyModern #C17th #flower #butterfly #artworks
Guido Reni ~ The Archangel Michael ~ love the stormy colours in his wings & the sky, & the way his hair & clothes reflect the colours of light breaking through a storm. Contemporaries criticised the figure of the angel in his sky blue, skintight bodysuit as 'effeminate'
Sphere of the Heavens, C13th, #French @britishmuseum #goodnight #night #stars #moon #medieval
Rather splendid couple from Trevelyon's Miscellany, 1608 #illustration #costume #history #C17th #EarlyModern #books #FolkArt #NaiveArt
Tile with the arms & initials of Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the court of Elizabeth I - c1564 ~ made either in #antwerp or by Flemish potter's who had fled to East Anglia to escape religious persecution. #TilesOnTuesday #history #ceramics