Title: Chameleon
Mansur ; c.1612 CE; Painting in ink and opaque watercolour including gold metallic paint on brown paper
Collection: Royal Collection Trust

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Apostle St. John the Evangelist, 1612

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27 Dec 1612: Frederick V is betrothed to Princess Elizabeth Stewart at the Banqueting House (BM)

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In 1612 AD Mughal emperor Jahangir granted permission to Portuguese to build a church at Ahmedabad in his Gujarat Province & ordered his Gujarat officials not to obstruct its construction.Mughal period painting of Jahangir with a portrait of Mother Mary.

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18 Dec 1612: Frederick V betrothed to Princess Elizabeth Stewart at the Banqueting House (BM)

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7 Dec 1612: funeral of Henry Frederick Prince of (d. 6 Nov) at Abbey amid scenes of huge grief.

During the service a naked man ran through the mourners, claiming to be his ghost (CUL/Dulwich PG)

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November 17, 1612: Dutch Golden Age landscape painter Frans Post is born.

When governor Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen traveled to Brazil in 1636, artists, including Post, accompanied him to record in picture form what they found.

🎨 "Brazilian Landscape with Anteater", 1649

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Africa
America
Asia
Europe

Abraham Bosse, 1612-1666

(Rijksmuseum)

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6 Nov 1612: d. Henry Frederick Setwart Prince of - making Charles (I) heir to thrones of England Scotland & Ireland

His death unleashed huge scenes of public grief.

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【アナログ1612:透明な月】このシリーズは久々。線画は7月くらいに描いたものです。
 

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Ustad Mansur, active c. 1600-20.
A chameleon 1612

(Royal Collection, HM EII)

Ustad Mansur was the leading animal painter at the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (reg.1605-27), who bestowed upon him the honorific Nadir al-Asr, ‘Wonder of the Age’.

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Abstract of original painting:
Pierre Mignard (1612-1695)
Baroque painting
Clio
Szepmuveszeti Muzeum collection

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"There appeared unto her a Blacke Dogge: speaking unto her, and desiring her to give him her Soule, and he would give her power to doe any thing shee would..."
- The Confession of Alison Device, hung for 1612

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16 Oct 1612: Frederick V arrives in England to marry Princess Elizabeth Stewart - the ceremony was on 14 Feb 1613 (BM/Rijksmuseum)

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