Charles I didn't call his English parliament in the 1630s but his Irish parliament met in 1634. Nice bit of an aul' procession to & .

The creator of this print had an eye to Wentworth's demise...


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2/2 A watery watercolor landscape from the 1630s by my colleague Lucas van Uden. Today is his day.

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2/2 Woman playing the virginal, accompanied by two children and one monkey. Their harmony is about to be interrupted by man at the door. Painted in the 1630s by Jan Miense Molenaer, whose day is today.

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2/2 Saint Jerome in anamorphic form, and as revealed by a reflective cylinder. painted in the 1630s by Matthias Stom. It's his day.

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3/3 Ariadne, also lonely and miserable in the 1630s. Paulus Bor, selecting antique legend's most unhappy females to paint. It's his day.

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Prometheus Carrying Fire (1630s) by Jan Cossiers (Flemish, 1600 – 1671). Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that he could give it to mankind, thereby leading to the development of civilisation.

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View of Olinda, Brazil, Frans Jansz. Post, 1662 (Rijksmuseum)

Olinda Cathedral was severely damaged when the Dutch conquered the region from the Portuguese in the 1630s.

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The diary of Matthias Chrysostom Günther XXIII G 1 contains records from a trip to France and Italy, when he probably accompanied his charges Jaroslav of Házmburk and Jan Vilém of Házmburk in the 1630s. Some entries are complemented by painted coats of arms of writers.

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Immerse yourself in the 1620s and 1630s at the Rubens House in Antwerp. Rubens designed the portico and adjacent studio where he painted many of his works, assisted by the young Van Dyck before he left for London in 1621.

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Diego Velázquez, Philip IV Hunting Wild Boar, 1630s

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Born in 1596: (1596-1656), Prince of Carignano, son of grandson of of Spain

Portrait by workshop of Anthony (1599-1641), ca. 1630s



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Our second choice is... our 'Sheet of Studies' by Rembrandt, from the mid-1630s.

Many of his sets of studies appear to have been cut into pieces at some stage: this is the most complete set on a single sheet to survive.

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2/2 A watery watercolor landscape from the 1630s by my colleague Lucas van Uden. Today was his day.

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In 1638 his reputation was assured by being named Painter to the King of France. He was also commissioned by the Dukes of Lorraine (1623-4). He mostly worked for the local middle class. Repentant Magdalen (1635-40), Job (1630s) & Women Catching Fleas (1630s)

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V is for Valletta, capital city of Malta. This map probably dates from the late 1630s / early 1640s & is part of a volume of C17th European town plans.
📁 WO 78/5816, f 255 https://t.co/ADs9CwLFyv

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Claude Lorrain(1600-1682)French painter/draughtsman/etcher of the Baroque era. 1 of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, 2 concentrate on landscape painting. By the end of the 1630s he was the leading landscapist in Italy.

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2/2 Woman playing the virginal, accompanied by two children and one monkey. Their harmony is about to be interrupted by man at the door. Painted in the 1630s by Jan Miense Molenaer, whose day is today.

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3/3 Ariadne, also lonely and miserable in the 1630s. Paulus Bor, selecting antique legend's most unhappy females to paint. It's his day.

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