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Portrait of #earlymodern goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585) coll. @HistMuseumBs and some of his works in #rijksmuseum. His speciality was casting after actual plants, animals and other objects, as he shows here with a statue.
What is harder than painting a #book? A depiction of a page of a burned #book! #Earlymodern vanitas still life with skull by master Sebastian Stoskopff, ca. 1631, coll. @kunstmuseumbs almost #morbidmonday
#Earlymodern #tulip as tangible symbol of wealt: Tulpenbecher made by Martin Huber in #Basel, 17c., coll. @HistMuseumBs
#Earlymodern gentle warning: drink responsible. Family wealth consisted not only of money or #realestate, but also of pewter household items which could be pawned or sold. Note the obsolete Dutch word #dronkendrincken. @DrinkingStudies @intoxproject @Spinazieacademi #foodhistory
The glass did not survive the #drinking #party: The Bean King by Jacob Jordaens, c.1638, coll. @state_hermitage and #earlymodern glass holder and broker roemer #wine glass, coll. #rijksmuseum. #FridayFeeling
I like these kind of paintings: kind of #earlymodern magic atmosphere. Circle of Joachim Patinir (ca. 1480-1524), sold today at @VenduehuisDH https://t.co/JgqIuV6IO6
Female applied #art: #earlymodern #delftware tile c.1675-1700, coll. @tegelmuseum w. image after drawings of Gesina ter Borch, ca,. 1660, coll. #rijksmuseum, tile made in Harlingen, #Friesland. #histfem
#Earlymodern #dragon from magnificent medieval castle Slot op den Hoef, Egmond aan den Hoef, Bergen, connected to the origin myth of the duchy of Gelre that was recorded in a chronicle, c.1465.
https://t.co/bdKGqGMCiK
Extremely rare #earlymodern richly decorated swaddling band to swaddle a #baby, coll. @V_and_A and examples of swaddled #babies, coll. #rijksmuseum
How to write without looking at your paper and not spoil the expensive carpet. Jacob van Wassenaer next to #earlymodern #books on his writing desk, (1649-1707) by Willem van Mieris, (1662 - 1747), ca. 1690, coll. @duivenvoorde
Interesting #earlymodern fountain #design. Maria van Reigersberg (1628-73) w. son Willem van Liere (1653-1706) and daughter Jacoba van Liere (1652-1693) by Adriaen Hanneman (1604-71), c. 1663, coll. @duivenvoorde https://t.co/OflaqvPkDT
🌸🍃 Marc Chagall
“Motherhood ,1914”🍃🌸#marcchagall #art #painting #motherhood #russianfrenchartist #earlymodernist #mother #child
#Earlymodern trompe-l'œil #art at entry of Strahov #monastry church #Prague. #munkabulous
Some #earlymodernart for #BatAppreciationDay:
Jusepe de Ribera, Studies of two ears & a bat, @metmuseum
Very nice #earlymodern set table by Giovan Battista Cartei, ca. 1630-53, now for sale at @dorotheum https://t.co/4W1fLg00Ei
One example from my lecture on #treasures at @KB_Nederland #library from @DelpherNL: #earlymodern #treasure fround in secreet (toilet) in #Prague and handed over to Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II as described in 1622. https://t.co/Lr22VIDA8y
Best #earlymodern object I have seen in treasury Sint Servaas church #Maastricht: reliquary made from a coconut decorated in #Japan, c.1693. Spot the #samurai! There were even ostrich egg reliquaries!