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Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 1636 Justus Sustermans (1597-1681)
Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, from Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) 1610
How is everyone’s #lockdownhairdo’s coming along? – we feel your pain! Here are a few from our collections that might sound familiar…
Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672)
Study of a Seated Boy, mid 17th century
Pencil & wash on paper
Cooper Gallery Collection
Pandemic and the park: Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge......1636....NB no singing of ballads......https://t.co/Y9CO9hv87O (Image: Wellcome)
Jan Carel van Eyck.c.1610-1685. The Fall of Phaeton.1636-1638. Prado Museum.
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon, 1636-40
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
¡Buenos días!
Peter Paul Rubens.
‘El RAPTO de Hipodamía’ (1636/1637, óleo sobre lienzo, 182,5 x 285,5 cm).
Museo del Prado.
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (d. 1633), 1603
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington (1565-ca.1634), 1592
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Unenthusiastic description of cacao (chocolate) when new to Europe 'a fruit well knowne in divers parts of America ... the fruit is ... of an astringent and ungratefull taste' from Gerard's Herball (orig. 1597); this copy = 1636 reprint & is probably Charles I's copy @RCT 🍫
4 of 6 Frans Hals Masterpieces rediscovered 5 Decades of Dedicated Research-RIGHT 1643 "Herman Doomer" with Rembrandt's Decade earlier Portrait-1636"Gypsy" c/f with Hals other work (Pentimenti poss Hals Daughter)-1625 "Trader in Turban"(X-Ray)-1624"Gentleman"-All Signed & Dated👨🎨
Nicolaus Steno was born #onthisday in 1636.
The greatest anatomist of his era, he dissected this shark head and proved the link between shark teeth and fossils. He also formulated the fundamental laws of geology...all by the age of 30, just to make you feel like a loser.
#STEM