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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 post-mortem verification of Francis of Assisi’s stigmata in Giotto's fresco: 'True life began when life was dead'

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2021-10-04

3 Oct 1226, Francis of Assisi dies in the evening. Here he is with John Baptist (El Greco)

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2021-10-04

Some nest robbing from 1568, Peter Breughel

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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2021-10-03

1 Oct 1620: b. Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem in Haarlem landscapes and allegories were his speciality.

(Dulwich Picture Gallery/ Met Museum/Rijksmuseum)

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2021-10-01

30 Sept 1680: Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke of Grafton son of Charles II & Barbara Villiers is created a Knight of the Garter (BM)

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2021-10-01

30 Sept 429: d. St Jerome translator & Doctor of the Church

Two images - a downbeat one from Durer & some of the more usual upbeat lion-filled iconography

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2021-09-30

30 Sept 1586: the dying Philip Sidney writes his will (NPG/BM)

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2021-09-30

That moment in front of the mirror when you're happy, at last, with your own reflection.

But someone's lurking.

(c.1530-70, Italian, British Museum)

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2021-09-29

Greater flamingo [Phoenicopterus roseus], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

With a wonderful roguish expression.

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2021-09-28

Concert of cherubs.
Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646.

(Met Museum)

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2021-09-28