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For my last tweet of 2020, here are wild roses, by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596 - 1610, from the Rijksmuseum.
I wish you all a Happy 2021 and thanks for following, especially during these difficult times.
Saint Anthony of Padua El Greco, Domenikos Theotokopoulos
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
30 Dec 1591: d. Innocent IX #otd one of shortest reigning Popes having been elected on 29 Oct 1591 (Bede753c/Utente)
Pack of 52 playing-cards, each with several lines of Latin text.
The suits are millstones, harps, goats and cupids, Paris, 1544
Hand-coloured woodcut
(British Museum)
30 Dec 1654: Augustine Garland and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper move #otd that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell be crowned
(British Museum)
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
22 Dec: feast of Anastasia of Sirmium #otd according to the Byzantine calendar. She died in 304.
I am tweeting her for her namesake who is @rhetorician’s daughter. Martyr & healer, she is one of the women of the Roman canon.
21 Dec 1635: The Court pastoral 'Florimène' played by a #French company in #Whitehall #otd The sets were by Inigo Jones (British Museum)
The secret lives of 17th century #owls (British Museum)
Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.