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Executed (alas!) OTD in 1554, Lady Jane Grey. Those crazy Tudors! Always executing people. Here the tragic event as imagined by Paul Delaroche.

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2023-02-13

Philip William, Prince of Orange, was born on 19 December, 1554, in Buren, Gelderland.

Son of William the Silent, he became known as 'the Catholic Prince of Orange'.



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2022-12-18

Looking back just over a century later on Jane Grey's execution 12 Feb 1554, here's Jan Lukyn c. 1664-1714 as part of a series on the executions of noble historical figures.

(British Museum)

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2022-02-13

Looking back just over a century later on Jane Grey's execution 12 Feb 1554, here's Jan Lukyn c. 1664-1714 as part of a series on the executions of noble historical figures.

(British Museum)

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2021-02-12

Coloured full-page 16th century engravings from the King's Library copy of Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus, Romæ, 1554, 41.i.10,

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2021-01-15

1554, 466 years ago today: John Feckenham held a debate with me in a last-resort attempt to convert me to Catholicism before my execution. A partial transcript is at the link below. Here you can see me actually face-palming at his arguments. :)
https://t.co/JQsUPyC6a8

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2020-02-10

"Persée avec la tête de Méduse" 1554, par Benvenuto Cellini qui serait né aux alentours de cette date en 1500.
Il fut dessinateur, orfèvre, fondeur, médailleur, sculpteur et écrivain.

Cette oeuvre est l'une des plus célèbres de la piazza della Signoria à Florence

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