Václav Špála
Two Bathing Girls (1917)
oil on cardboard

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My hands are cold.
Anyway, take this WIP of Václav - I'm gonna go play some Animal Crossing🐱

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Treitz's ligament takes its eponym from the czech Václav Treitz who described it for the first time in 1853. He was one of the first to support thesis and died of 1872 at the age of 53.

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Death of St Iria – Václav Brožík, 1873.
(Olomouc Museum of Art).

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Today 13 July 1607: Birth of Václav (Wenceslaus) Hollar in Prague… exquisite & prodigious bohemian C17th etcher.
His very first commission in England was executed on site at Greenwich & magnificently captured the architectural wind of change.
❤️ The Queen’s House

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The ligament of Treitz (suspensory muscle of duodenum) marks the division between the duodenum and jejunem, and between upper and lower GI tract. It plays a role in embryological rotation of the gut, and was described in 1853 by Chech pathologist Václav Treitz.

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Rabas Václav (Czech, 1885-1954), Silesian Forests, 1925

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Today 25 March 1677: Death of maybe THE greatest etcher/draughtsman Václav Hollar at Gardener’s Lane, Westminster.
It was Hollar who left us a glorious record of the Greenwich vista and Queen’s House c.1637... being paid the princely sum of 150p !

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Václav Brožík - Spring, Flower branch, 1899

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On this day in in 1570: Bohemian ornithologist Václav Wač found the remains of a wing of a new bird, named after him as Wač's Wing when live specimens were found. English publishers, unfamiliar with the Slavic letter č, soon corrupted it to 'Waxwing'.

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Václav Špála (1885-1946)

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“Václav Koller” concept art by Frédéric Bennett for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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Yesterday 13 July 1607: Birth of Václav (Wenceslaus) Hollar in Prague. Hollar was an exquisite & prodigious bohemian C17th etcher. His very first commission in England was executed on site at Greenwich & magnificently captured the architectural wind of change… 1/2

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Just a final WIP since it really will be a while now before I can finish.

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