Selling almanacs in an Allegory of Winter (detail), ca 1660-1665, by David Teniers the Younger.

Het Noordbrabants Museum, bruikleen Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.

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Madonna with the Christ Child Floating on Clouds, n.d., by (Italian, 1638–1665). Held by , https://t.co/yRaG2Et1ve. (Nov 14) in 1665, Bologna honored Sirani with a public civic funeral.

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Paysage avec une chute d'eau, peint par Jacob van Ruisdael vers 1665, conservé au Rijskmuseum d'Amsterdam

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THE BLACK DEATH-Four explanations,widely held,at the time of the Great Plague of 1665,for what caused this unfathomable disease that was wiping out half of Europe: 1)people staring at victims 2)Ill omened alignment of planets 3)well poisoning by foreigners 4) pointy shoes

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The Girl with a Pearl Earring
-1665, Johannes Vermeer

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Baby Jesus and St. Anthony of Padua, c. 1656, by (Italian, 1638–1665). Private collection; source, https://t.co/hiASDbEO6Z. (Nov 14) in 1665, Bologna honored Sirani with a public civic funeral.

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Entangled media histories: You see Martino Martini, a seventeenth-century Jesuit holding a Chinese styled map with the Great Wall in the North. His map pointing reflects his sources and media recycling practice because Martini was also a cartographer. In 1665, he published

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17 September 1665, Charles II of Spain, aka the Bewitched, becomes King of Spain at the age of three upon the death if his father, Philip IV.

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In 1665, Rembrandt painted this portrait of his younger colleague, Gerard de Lairesse.

The sitter suffered from syphilis - which was spreading across Holland at the time - and consented to have the physical manifestations of his disease recorded as a warning.

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Nathaniel Day was the fifth child of English immigrants Anthony Day and Susanna Ring Matchett who lived on the Annisquam River in Gloucester, MA. Born on Dec 9, 1665, he’s my 6x gr-grandfather. Day’s family moved around Cape Ann quite a bit, before settling by Pole’s Hill.

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She died in 1665, aged just 27 with stomach pains. Her biographer & contemporaries believed she was poisoned. However nearly every famous person who died suddenly at the time was considered to have been poisoned by ‘enemies’. Portrait of Anna Maria Ranuzzi as Charity (1665)

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Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer (Dutch), 1665, The Mauritshuis

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Gallery 47 includes the work of Dutch landscape painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Meindert Hobbema, and Jacob van Ruisdael.

[Meindert Hobbema, “A View on a High Road,” 1665, oil on canvas]

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You can tie that balloon now, Aeolus. Cornelis van Dalen view on the origin of a with animals from the North Pole, c. 1665, coll. https://t.co/KRPDXBzkc5

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7 January 1665, Louise de La Vallière gives birth to a son by Louis XIV. The boy received the name Philippe de La Baume Le Blanc, was not legitimised and died the following year.

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27 December 1665, Louise de La Vallière gives birth to a son, Louis de La Baume Le Blanc. The boy only lived a year and was not legitimised by his papa, Louis XIV.

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Where have you been exploring this weekend?

This landscape by dated
1663 - 1665, shows the artist’s delight in creating woodland vistas.

Even with the threat of an impending storm, the vision of nature is one of cheerful domesticity.

https://t.co/6mIACUaaPI

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Although the plague receded after 1665, the miasma theory continued to hold sway into the early 1800s, when England was hit with a devastating cholera epidemic. The ‘cholera preventive costume’ shown in this cartoon includes strong-smelling elements like tea, juniper and herbs.

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