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Late as I've been pottering in the garden b/c it's such a gloriously sunny day here in Derbyshire...
HEAR YE! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday! This week's topic is:
❄️⛈️☀️*Weather events in the Stuart-era*☀️⛈️❄️
Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois, (1621 – 1676), 'Ships on a Stormy Sea'.
Venus & Mercury:
1. François Boucher (1703 – 1770), French
2. Pierre Jacques Cazes (1676 – 1754), French
3. Pierre Nolasque Bergeret (1782 – 1863), French
4. Nicolas Chaperon (1612 — 1656), French
Italian artist Marco Ricci (1676-1730) painted 'Apollo and the Muses' during his two year stay in England. It's serene heavenliness is a stark contrast to the artist's dramatically dark life.
Find out more in our new blog post here: https://t.co/KPj2SFDYjz
Orsola Maddalena Caccia (Italian, 1596-1676) Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630.
11 juin 1676: bataille d'Öland. Une flotte combinée dano-néerlandaise commandée par l'amiral Tromp inflige une sévère défaite à la flotte suédoise en mer Baltique. Le Kronan, navire amiral suédois portant plus de 100 canons, explose pendant le combat. Peinture de Claus Møinichen.
Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596–1676) was an Italian mannerist painter and Christian nun. She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes.
#womenartists
#TalDíaComoHoy 1629 nace don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués de Heliche, del Carpio y Conde-Duque de Olivares. Hijo del valido de Luis de Haro (†1661), sirvió como embajador en Roma (1676-1682) y virrey de Nápoles (1683-1687). Destacó como gran mecenas y coleccionista de arte.
Died #OnThisDay in 1676: English painter #JohnGreenhill (ca. 1644-76)
Portrait of A Lady as a Shepherdess
#Greenhill #EnglishBaroque
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, n.d., by #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia (Italian, c. 1596-c. 1676). Held at the Church of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bianzè, Italy; source, https://t.co/z6DVdclHFD #nuntastic #artherstory #womenartists #OrsolaCaccia #SuorOrsola
#OTD 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe" based on real life experience of Alexander Selkirk, of Largo, Fife, Scotland, who in 1676, spent 4 yrs as castaway on uninhabited island. Was Defoe's 1st long work of fiction, introduces Crusoe & Friday. https://t.co/b3HiS3w2y3
Le 22 avril 1676, la flotte française commandée par Duquesne remporte la victoire contre la flotte hispano-néerlandaise lors de la bataille d'Agosta, livrée au large de la Sicile. Le fameux amiral de Ruyter y est mortellement blessé. Peinture d'Ambroise Louis Garneray, 1837.
Born #OnThisDay in 1676: #TheresaKunegundaSobieska (1676-1730), Electress of Bavaria as spouse of #MaximilianIIEmanuel, daughter of Polish King #JohnIIISobieski
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1690s
#Sobieski #Wittelsbach
Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie
Butterflies, a snake & a tortoise around a flowering agave, n.d., by #MariaMonnincks (#MariaMoninckx, #MariaMonincks; Dutch, 1673 or 1676–1757), who was buried #otd (Feb 26). Held at the @rijksmuseum, https://t.co/n38VApkVRD #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
16 février 1669 : lancement à Toulon du vaisseau de 70 canons l'Isle de France, renommé le Lys en 1671. Ce trois-ponts prit part en 1676 à la bataille d'Agosta durant laquelle l'amiral néerlandais de Ruyter fut mortellement blessé. Peinture d'Ambroise Louis Garneray.
Also on the topic of #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia -
ICYMI, see Angela Ghirardi's #ArtHerstory guest post "Suor Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676), Convent Artist," https://t.co/JZuzj9dyyM #womenartists
Pic'd: the Met's new Madonna & Child w/ the Infant St John the Baptist, c. 1625