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Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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The Last Supper, unknown artist, Ulm, c. 1520 (Rijksmuseum) A very sensual depiction.

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8 Apr 1586: John Venn future regicide is baptised at Lydiard St Laurence (Houghton Library)

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8 Apr 1551: Gyles Godet, printmaker is granted letters of denization He'd come to in 1547 - and here is some of his output, including his illustration of April and a picture of one pretty famous person who died the year he arrived in (BM)

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St Carlo Borromeo ministering to the plague victims, by Pierre Mignard, 1612-1695

(Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))

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Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle c. 1500-49 (Rijksmuseum)

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Reliquary bust of 1 of St Ursula's virgins, c.1325–c.1349
Christian princess Ursula & her 11,000 virgins were killed by Huns near Köln. All were considered saints so their relics were kept in Image many many of these painted wooden objects - what a sight (Rijksmuseum)

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7 Apr 1515: William Tyndale, translator & Protestant reformer ordained priest in Burnt at the stake in Vilvoorde in 1536

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7 Apr 1614: d. El Greco (Δ Θεοτοκόπουλος)at distinctive artist from whose pictures still stun

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A silver cup with a cover, 1581/82, (Met Museum)

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Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli, c. 1480 (Rijksmuseum) What wonderful hands.

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