View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.
31.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 251 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 6
One of Hendrick's favorite painting venues: the Oude Kerk in Delft, here in 1670. Kids playing. Dog waiting for some action. Today is Hendrick van Vliet's day.
28.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 141 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
Achey and feeling sorry for herself. Mum doesn't look too worried so I think a happy ending is in sight for The Sick Child. Touching & unique painting by Gabriel Metsu, whose day is today.
23.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 119 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
Lady at home, reading a letter from her sweetheart. But what does it say? Is he overseas, as painting on wall suggests? Or is that seascape about turbulence of love? By Gabriel Metsu.
23.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 151 🔁 20 💬 12 📌 1
How insanely beautiful can sunlight on a cloud be? This insanely beautiful. The Maas at Dordrecht, 1650, by Aelbert Cuyp, whose day is today
20.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 223 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 1
Born on this day in 1595, in Antwerp, my colleague Lucas van Uden. Painter of landscapes. Here, his portrait as drawn by Anthony van Dyck.
18.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 101 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Born on this day in 1571, in Milan, the incomparably brilliant Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Here (more or less) by himself. Shocked at being dead.
29.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 189 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 2
Born on this day in 1622, in Amsterdam, Karel Dujardin. Painter of landscapes, peasants, portraits... Here one of himself, looking v. handsome in his excellent shirt, in 1662.
27.09.2025 11:21 — 👍 94 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Died (alas!) on this day in 1624, in Rotterdam, painter & printmaker Willem Buytewech. Depicted lives and amusements of the Bright Young Things of the early Dutch Golden Age. Here, a worldly group in 1620.
23.09.2025 11:47 — 👍 274 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 4
Making music in 1631. Man's hat seems to be miraculously hovering above the table. A miracle! By Jan Miense Molenaer of Haarlem, whose day has been today.
20.09.2025 00:16 — 👍 57 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0
Not just another Dutch guardroom scene: Peter, trying to sneak out, denying Christ. And the cat, bored with it all. From 1633 by Jan Miense Molenaer.
19.09.2025 23:12 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
The cook is in the kitchen in 1620, with all his meaty ingredients, but whose cards are on the table? Really. Maybe or maybe not by Alejandro de Loarte, whose day is today.
18.09.2025 20:21 — 👍 73 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Poultry seller, 1626. Fantastic work by Spanish painter Alejandro de Loarte whose day is today.
18.09.2025 12:39 — 👍 136 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 2
Sir Peter Lely, a dashing fellow. Born Pieter van der Faes (really) OTD in Soest in 1618. Looks a bit too full of himself but OK, he did have talent.
14.09.2025 11:25 — 👍 132 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 1
Françoise van Diemen, the artist's lovely wife, painted by Godfried Schalcken in 1679. Today is his day.
06.09.2025 21:55 — 👍 103 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset. Writer, patron, builder, fighter. Gorgeous portrait with a lot of character, as befits its subject, painted in 1618 by William Larkin. Today is his day.
28.08.2025 23:02 — 👍 150 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 2
Death has brought along some excellent demonic pals to visit this fellow, in an Allegory of Greed by Egbert van Heemskerck. It's his day.
17.08.2025 17:44 — 👍 105 🔁 14 💬 8 📌 1
James I is here at Margate to bid adieu to the Elector Palatine & Princess Elizabeth in 1623. A moving moment immortalized (especially the ships) by Adam Willaerts, whose day is today.
21.07.2025 07:27 — 👍 86 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
La Garde Ecossaise Historical Fiction and Early Modern Studies Newsletter
No. 12 Sir William Hope and the Scottish Fencing-Master
NEW FEATURE ARTICLE Sir William Hope and the Scottish Fencing-Master.
#HEMA #historicaleuropeanmartialarts #scotland #scottishhistory #swords #swordsmanship #fencing #fencingschools
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05.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Music, love, sensuality, 1633. At left, a younger version of me (a man can dream) leads his sweetheart into garden. Today my birthday.
28.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 63 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
🗓️ #OnThisDay 14th June 1645, the Battle of Naseby was fought⚔️, a decisive moment in the English Civil War. In Series 4, @kirsteenmm.bsky.social argues it's more accurate to call it ‘The War of Three Kingdoms’.
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#OTD #OnThisDate #History #Podcast
14.06.2025 09:30 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
13 June 1667: The Dutch fleet in the raid on the Medway destroys much of the #English Fleet #otd - London is gripped by an invasion panic
(Royal Museums, Greenwich)
13.06.2025 07:34 — 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
La Garde Ecossaise Historical Fiction and Early Modern Studies Newsletter
No. 10. The Power of Early Modern Oaths
NEW FEATURE ARTICLE The Power of Early Modern Oaths.
- The coronation oath of Louis XIV #OTD 7 June 1654.
- The importance of judicial oaths in the Imperial Chamber Court.
- The National Covenant of 1638.
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07.06.2025 14:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A picture by one person, for one person: Las Meninas, 1656. It doesn't get any better than this. Some paintings by me on the back wall (thank you Diego), but they are not the stars of this show! Diego Velazquez, born OTD 1599.
06.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 267 🔁 49 💬 9 📌 6
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
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