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Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Jan de Beer with one of the weirdest I have ever seen. Check out the or manuscript. 1510-20, coll. 1/2

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2021-02-08

horseman by Johan van Boenenborch, c.1601, in album amicorum of J. Walraven van Stepraedt, 1598-1633, , perhaps made during the siege of Stuhlweissenburg / Székesfehérvár, in 1601.
https://t.co/RZ0gJTjo9G

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2021-01-14

A similar image by my favorite historiographer Iohannes Bocatius is about a child born with a double head, seen as an on the rule of This pamphlet contains the arguments of the insurgents and the king, c.1620, https://t.co/wjv4CTOhnf

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2021-01-08

Remember ill-fated Marcus Baxam from I have just found a drawing of him with two (!) arrows in his head, politely greeting two noble women, drawn and engraved by Joris Hoefnagel in 1597 coll..
https://t.co/hLbw1tFpp5 https://t.co/kC9Jna7xDb

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2021-01-04

Weird image for strange times: rare three-headed trinity, ca.1700, coll.. These kind of images were forbidden by Pope Urbanus VIII in 1628 as too pagan. https://t.co/5NDhixaLZ6

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2020-12-21

No but still impressive mantle: rulers Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, Rudolf II and Matthias II. Unknown artist, c.1617-9. coll. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. https://t.co/ZK9tPbbciw

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2020-12-06

Family of steel, ships of wood: painting of Jacob Mathijsz Oosterlingh and his family from Edam portrayed with the 92 (!) ships they have built. Jan Molenaar, c.1682, Museum Edam. https://t.co/IKPT4E0qST

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2020-12-02

1640 João IV/John IV (the Restorer) becomes King of Portugal thus ending the Iberian Union between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal under the Spanish Crown which started in 1580 under Philip II.

Painting by Veloso Salgado, Military Museum, Lisbon

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2020-12-01

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How political operatives used a tale about "magick colleges" to "dehumanise and bludgeon" rivals in Bohemia & England:

https://t.co/j8mG8pJqdU

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2020-11-18

So much to see on this image, Jan van Amstel?, The parable of the great feast, c.1535, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum: a very special baby carrier, a carport and a giant https://t.co/bwqlpnsjxY

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2020-11-18

Water some by Cornelius Saftleven, 1617 - 1681 on a rainy afternoon, coll. and

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2020-11-17

My colleague is very good in finding appealing images with Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne, ca.1645, coll.

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2020-11-14

Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at , attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H

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2020-10-31

head up: typical coat of arms of a noble family: the noble patent was granted due to fight against the in or Transylvania. Entry of Thomas Baratthy, 15-1-1584 in album amicorum of Henry Francklin. https://t.co/k0DtcBqmkP

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2020-10-22

When my finger is healed. This time a will have a good look at the of

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2020-10-22

dressed in fashion for a tournament. Album amicorum entry by Johann Jacob Egglhof, 8 February 1585. https://t.co/SCCDNWiujn Zischägge helmet and shield, coll.

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2020-10-21

on Old jester with by Alexander Voet (II), after Jacob Jordaens (I), c.1662 - 1674: in

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2020-10-04

Amazing manuscript on c.1552-1585, from the collection of Emperor Rudolf II. with drawings of Arcimboldo and Hoefnagel a.o. of an Eurasian hoopoe (#vogel hop, drekvogel), and https://t.co/Ggp3Ua76Xr

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2020-09-29