#1600s — Public Fediverse posts
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@samuelpepys
Sorry old chap, I don't understand your banter.
("turned up his tail"?)#Pepys #English #language #diary #1600s #history #Tachygraphy #ShortHand
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The Blood of Christ
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar, and that was no different in the times of the Republic of Venice.
It should therefore be no surprise that several events took place during the week of Easter, and that all classes participated.
A couple of these events included a rather special relic, which is still in the treasury of the Basilica di San Marco.
It is a sample of the blood of Jesus.
Just to muddle the waters, there's a similar relic in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
Both of them originate in Constantinople.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Easter #histodons #Schools #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-blood-of-christ/
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The Blood of Christ
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar, and that was no different in the times of the Republic of Venice.
It should therefore be no surprise that several events took place during the week of Easter, and that all classes participated.
A couple of these events included a rather special relic, which is still in the treasury of the Basilica di San Marco.
It is a sample of the blood of Jesus.
Just to muddle the waters, there's a similar relic in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
Both of them originate in Constantinople.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Easter #histodons #Schools #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-blood-of-christ/
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Courtesans
The ancient Venetians had a rather ambiguous relationship with prostitution. It was both rejected and accepted.
Prostitution was rejected because it was seen as immoral and dishonest.
However, it was also accepted because the alternative was perceived to be sodomy, which is a mortal sin.
At the same time, the courtesans of Venice in the 1500s and 1600s were famous and celebrated. Important people came from all over Europe to enjoy their company. Kings, dukes and even cardinals requested the services of the most famous courtesans.
This ambiguity is evident in the following four prints.
They're from the same publication, the Habiti delle Donne Venetiane, published around 1610 by Giacomo Franco.
#1600s #Courtesans #Venezia #Venice #Women
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/courtesans/
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Courtesans
The ancient Venetians had a rather ambiguous relationship with prostitution. It was both rejected and accepted.
Prostitution was rejected because it was seen as immoral and dishonest.
However, it was also accepted because the alternative was perceived to be sodomy, which is a mortal sin.
At the same time, the courtesans of Venice in the 1500s and 1600s were famous and celebrated. Important people came from all over Europe to enjoy their company. Kings, dukes and even cardinals requested the services of the most famous courtesans.
This ambiguity is evident in the following four prints.
They're from the same publication, the Habiti delle Donne Venetiane, published around 1610 by Giacomo Franco.
#1600s #Courtesans #Venezia #Venice #Women
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/courtesans/
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Episode 25 — The Venetian Carnival
The Venetian carnival was famous, and was so already in the Middle Ages. Kings travelled across Europe to see the Venetian carnival. It was one of the must-see things for travellers to Venice.
The carnival was not, however, like the modern cheap replica.
The ancient Venetian carnival sported such noble activities as pig-chasing in the alleyways, a flying Turk delivering flowers, and the public execution of a bull by sword.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Carnival
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-25-the-venetian-carnival/
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Episode 25 — The Venetian Carnival
The Venetian carnival was famous, and was so already in the Middle Ages. Kings travelled across Europe to see the Venetian carnival. It was one of the must-see things for travellers to Venice. The carnival was not, however, like the modern cheap replica. The ancient Venetian carnival sported such noble activities as pig-chasing in the alleyways, a flying Turk delivering flowers, and the public execution of a bull by sword.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Carnival
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-25-the-venetian-carnival/
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Beheading bulls
Lent, leading up to Easter, is a period of abstinence and repentance.
Forty days, where the basic rule is that if it's fun, it's probably not allowed.
Carnival originated, at least in part, as a reaction to the meagre forty days, when meat, wine, cakes, and rich foods in general were off the menu.
Hence, we have the fat week leading up to Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of the carnival — Mardi Gras for the French inclined, martedi grasso in Italy, both meaning Fat Tuesday — but the preceding Thursday was also an important feast.
In Venice, this was the Feast of Giovedì Grasso, which was celebrated in grand style in the Piazzetta, the smaller part of Piazza San Marco near the two columns.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/beheading-bulls/
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Beheading bulls
Lent, leading up to Easter, is a period of abstinence and repentance.
Forty days, where the basic rule is that if it's fun, it's probably not allowed.
Carnival originated, at least in part, as a reaction to the meagre forty days, when meat, wine, cakes, and rich foods in general were off the menu.
Hence, we have the fat week leading up to Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of the carnival — Mardi Gras for the French inclined, martedi grasso in Italy, both meaning Fat Tuesday — but the preceding Thursday was also an important feast.
In Venice, this was the Feast of Giovedì Grasso, which was celebrated in grand style in the Piazzetta, the smaller part of Piazza San Marco near the two columns.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/beheading-bulls/
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Miracle cure or snake oil?
When the English gentleman John Evelyn left Venice in 1646, after almost a year in Venice and Padua, he had more stuff than when he had arrived.
From his diary for late March 1646:
Having packed up my purchases of books, pictures, casts, treacle, &c., (the making and extraordinary ceremony whereof I had been curious to observe, for it is extremely pompous and worth seeing) I departed from Venice …
Unsurprisingly, Evelyn had been shopping books and works of art, but also treacle made with extremely pompous ceremony.
The treacle was Venice treacle, one of the main export articles of the Republic of Venice.
#1600s #Medicine #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/miracle-cure-or-snake-oil/
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Miracle cure or snake oil?
When the English gentleman John Evelyn left Venice in 1646, after almost a year in Venice and Padua, he had more stuff than when he had arrived.
From his diary for late March 1646:
Having packed up my purchases of books, pictures, casts, treacle, &c., (the making and extraordinary ceremony whereof I had been curious to observe, for it is extremely pompous and worth seeing) I departed from Venice …
Unsurprisingly, Evelyn had been shopping books and works of art, but also treacle made with extremely pompous ceremony.
The treacle was Venice treacle, one of the main export articles of the Republic of Venice.
#1600s #Medicine #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/miracle-cure-or-snake-oil/
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Naumachia, from "L'orologio del piacere", Italy 1685.
Full book here: https://archive.org/details/lorologiodelpiac00picc/mode/1up
#ships #illustration #1600s #book #PublicDomain #PublicDomainBook #Italy
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Naumachia, from "L'orologio del piacere", Italy 1685.
Full book here: https://archive.org/details/lorologiodelpiac00picc/mode/1up
#ships #illustration #1600s #book #PublicDomain #PublicDomainBook #Italy
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Venice produced and exported Theriac, an ancient wonder medicine for just about every ailment imaginable. It was a flourishing business for centuries, and an important part of the Venetian economy.
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Venice produced and exported Theriac, an ancient wonder medicine for just about every ailment imaginable. It was a flourishing business for centuries, and an important part of the Venetian economy.
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"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu (c. 1664-1666) #classicalart #oilpainting #1600s
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Episode 21 — The Plague Doctor
The plague doctor, long black cloak, pointy fingers, beaked mask with empty eyes. A giant black raven, the harbinger of a terrible death.
We all know that image. It is part of our culture and mythology. That was how medieval plague doctors looked, right?
Well, guess who didn't know about the beaked plague doctor? The plague doctors of the 1500s and 1600s didn't know about the beaked plague doctor.
Yet, they were him. Or were they?
#1500s #1600s #Plague #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-21-the-plague-doctor/
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The well-known image of the plague doctor with the beaked mask don't really have a lot of support in our sources. Did he even exist?
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During the 1400s, Venice had created defences against the recurring outbreaks of the plague, and they kept Venice mostly safe for the following centuries. Mostly safe.
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Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer
From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":
The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.
Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40][40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.
#science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations -
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Proper ball games for decent people? Not all ball games are equal; some are more equal than others.
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The 1600s and 1700s were a period of slow decline for Venice, until the Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon in 1797.
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The name Ferdinando is common amongst my Ironmonger ancestors from Lincolnshire in the 1600s and 1700s. They were probably named after Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (29 Mar 1584 – 14 Mar 1648 - pictured). Ferdinando was a commander in the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War. His son, Thomas Fairfax, commanded the New Model Army. The name suggests which side my Ironmonger ancestors supported.
#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #Lincolnshire #1600s #1700s
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The name Ferdinando is common amongst my Ironmonger ancestors from Lincolnshire in the 1600s and 1700s. They were probably named after Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (29 Mar 1584 – 14 Mar 1648 - pictured). Ferdinando was a commander in the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War. His son, Thomas Fairfax, commanded the New Model Army. The name suggests which side my Ironmonger ancestors supported.
#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #Lincolnshire #1600s #1700s
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I’ve traced the Howe branch of my family back to St Hilary, Glamorgan in the 1600s. I’m not saying that events were slow in the village in the 1690s, but this is what the vicar wrote in the church register 😂
Edit: I’ve discovered who probably wrote those words - Reverend Joseph Merrick.
#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #1600s #Wales
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I’ve traced the Howe branch of my family back to St Hilary, Glamorgan in the 1600s. I’m not saying that events were slow in the village in the 1690s, but this is what the vicar wrote in the church register 😂
Edit: I’ve discovered who probably wrote those words - Reverend Joseph Merrick.
#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #1600s #Wales
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Morning all. Here’s the first recorded advertisement for coffee, from London in 1652. ‘The Vertue of the COFFEE-Drink’.
You can imagine the nuclear impact of coffee hitting society amid turmoil in the wake of the Civil War. The authorities hated it - they figured that a drunk revolutionary was easier to control than a hyped-up one - and demonized & tried to ban coffee-houses. And Charles II’s era was one of manic night-owl partying.
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Morning all. Here’s the first recorded advertisement for coffee, from London in 1652. ‘The Vertue of the COFFEE-Drink’.
You can imagine the nuclear impact of coffee hitting society amid turmoil in the wake of the Civil War. The authorities hated it - they figured that a drunk revolutionary was easier to control than a hyped-up one - and demonized & tried to ban coffee-houses. And Charles II’s era was one of manic night-owl partying.
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July 15 - the birthday of #Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is considered one of the greatest visual artists in art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict various styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes, and animal studies.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-return-of-the-prodigal-son-1660s-rembrandt.html
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July 15 - the birthday of #Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is considered one of the greatest visual artists in art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict various styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes, and animal studies.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-return-of-the-prodigal-son-1660s-rembrandt.html
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July 08 - the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi - an #Italian #Baroque painter considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when #women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bathsheba-at-her-bath-1638-artemisia-gentileschi.html
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July 08 - the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi - an #Italian #Baroque painter considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when #women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bathsheba-at-her-bath-1638-artemisia-gentileschi.html
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TGI … Fenster Freitag, before a long weekend, after a long week. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Window #BuiltHeritage #HeritageBuilding #1600s #C17th #RoyalHospitalKilmainham #Mastodaoine
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TGI … Fenster Freitag, before a long weekend, after a long week. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Window #BuiltHeritage #HeritageBuilding #1600s #C17th #RoyalHospitalKilmainham #Mastodaoine
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Quarantine in the 1600s
The Black Plague was a recurrent scourge in the 1600s, and one of the common precautions in Venice was to quarantine persons suspected of carrying the contagion. That meant anybody who had been in close contact with a plague infected person or place.
Quarantining people and goods was one of the main purposes of the Venetian lazzaretti islands.
Over the three centuries the Venetian lazzaretti operated, tens of thousands of persons must have gone through quarantine on the two islands.
How did that work? How was it being locked up like that for a month or more, between tall walls, under armed guards, on a tiny lagoon island?
#1600s #Plague #Quarantine #Sources #Translations #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/quarantine-in-the-1600s/
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Fornicators of Nuns
"Fornicators of Nuns" is probably not the first term you'll be looking for when you settle into an armchair with an old dictionary, just to browse it a bit out of general curiosity. It is one of those signs that the past is like another country. They did things differently, and sometimes very differently.
#1500s #1600s #LawAndOrder #Slavery #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/fornicators-of-nuns/
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Today we explore the historical #evolution of rope-making, from manual production in the #1600s to the use of machine-based ropewalks, crucial for crafting ship-worthy cables. Ropemaker Sarah Sjøgreen's process, demonstrated in this #video, provides a peek into the intricate art of creating heavy-duty ropes for historical ships. ⚓️🚢🪢
👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/four-strand-hemp-rope-alvangen-ropewalk
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The Great Fire of London, 1666, received a mention in Sunshine, book two in my Golden Age of Hollywood series, today. Thomas Farriner, a baker, started the fire. However, a psychologically troubled Frenchman, Robert Hubert, was tried and executed for starting the blaze. Robert wasn’t even there - his ship hadn’t docked when the fire started. Why strive for justice when a scapegoat is at hand, eh?
🖼️ Artist unknown.
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July 15 - the birthday of #Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is considered one of the greatest visual artists in art history. Unlike most #Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict various styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes, and animal studies.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-night-watch-1642-rembrandt.html
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July 08 - the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi - an #Italian #Baroque painter considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when #women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
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June 28 - the birthday of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) - a Flemish artist and diplomat. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and #history paintings of #mythological and #allegorical subjects.
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‘The Old Folks Sing, The Young Folks Chirp’ is an old saying. It basically means that older people set the example and younger people follow it. The #Antwerp #Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens was very fond of the theme. In the course of his long and productive career, he painted and drew the proverb several times. This 1638 work is the earliest known version.
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June 15 - the birthday of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) - the leading painter of the classical French #Baroque style. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-dance-to-the-music-of-time-1634-nicolas-poussin.html
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Esther before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653).
Gentileschi, the most famous #woman painter of the 17th century, worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This painting, among her most ambitious, represents the scene from the #Bible where Jewish heroine Esther appeared before her husband, King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) of Persia, in order to stave off a massacre of the Jewish people, breaking court protocol and risking deathhttps://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/esther-before-ahasuerus-1630s-artemisia-gentileschi.html
