Martini traveled back to Rome frm 1651 to 1655. he wrote his eye-witness account of Manchu conquest of China in his book Regni Sinensis a Tartaris devastati enarratio which was published in 1661.

The Euro illustrators of the book prbly nvr seen a Chinese person irl.

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Portret van Gerard ter Borch de Oude, in achthoekige omlijsting, 1655 https://t.co/oeaIbNM5Pk

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3 June 1654 ns: d. Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel, 1585-1654 in Amsterdam
She was a contributor to this 1655 receipt book.

(Alte Pinakothek/U Toronto/eebo)

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College of Animals, Cornelis Saftleven, 1655
The artist died 1 June 1681.

A satire on contemporary academic life.

Among other things, Amadis of Gaul appears to be on the reading list.

(Dallas Museum of Art)

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Fireworks design apparatus with a dragon lying on its back, on top of which are a sphere and Apollo.

Giovanni Burnacini, 1625-1655.

Gloriously over the top.

(British Museum)

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Peeter Neeffs the Elder, Interior of a Church at Night with a Procession, c. 1640-1655 https://t.co/8QlOQDpG5M

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Mensen op het strand, ca 1655, Willem van de Velde de Oude

In ‘Willem van de Velde & Zoon’, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam

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The Jewish Cemetery by Jacob van Ruisdael, 1654 or 1655 [2048 x 1523]

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