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Born 1577: Southern Netherlandish artist (1577-1640)

Portrait of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, (1586-1646)

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2020-06-28

Born 1577: Southern Netherlandish artist (1577-1640)

Portrait drawing of Rubens' Son Nicolaas Wearing a Coral Neckless, c. 1619

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2020-06-28

Born 1577: (1577-1640)

Portrait drawing of a Maid of Honor of Infanta Isabella, ca. 1623

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2020-06-28

Happy Birthday to influential Flemish Baroque master, artist, and diplomat, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) https://t.co/0LfCgqb9ci

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2020-06-28

There is a small but extremely choice collection of Spanish works. El Greco (1577-9) An Allegory, Velázquez (1618) An Old Woman Cooking Eggs & Murillo’s Personification of Summer (1640). The Old Woman is one of Velázquez’s earliest works.

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2020-06-26

First up, our good friend Lucy Hutchinson. Lucy wrote a memoir of her life at the Castle during the Civil War in the 1640s. However, the book wasn't published until 1806 - 132 years after her death. We promise you though, it was worth the wait

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2020-06-24

The Fall of Phaeton, c.1604/1605, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

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2020-06-21

Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1640

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2020-06-16

3/3 Chickens in the barnyard: picturesque scene from the 1640s by Isaac van Ostade of Haarlem, whose day is today.

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2020-06-02

Baptised in 1617: English-Scottish painter (1617-1694)

Portrait of (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), ca. 1670

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2020-05-26

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803)

🎨 Carlo Dolci (also "The Trinity in Glory", 1640

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2020-05-26

Nouveau sur les décors du palais Mazarin ! Devenu bibliothèque royale puis nationale, le palais était pourvu d'immenses décors, le chantier le plus important des années 1640. 🌟🎨
Il en reste heureusement quelques témoignages visuels que l'on va découvrir ⬇️

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2020-05-25

Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1640

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2020-05-13

Born in 1650: (1650-1714), Queen of Denmark & Norway as spouse of King

Portrait by (1640-1715), ca. 1690


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2020-04-27

St Matthew and the Angel
oil on canvas
85 cm x 68 cm
1635 - 1640
Pinacoteca, Vatican

Guido Reni

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2020-04-27

15 Apr: feast of Hunna, an aristocrat saint who is patron of laundresses, who died in 679 and was canonized in 1520. Here then, for her feast day, are some washerwomen by Gesina Ter Borch, 1640s (Rijksmuseum)

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2020-04-16