Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Bust of an old man with a flowing beard: the head bowed forward: left shoulder unshaded,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Shell (Conus marmoreus),
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The hog,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Saskia Ill in Bed,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Still Life with Peacocks,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Landscape with a Square Tower,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Man in cap bound around his chin,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Hurdy-gurdy Player,
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Jacob Van Campen, 'Still Life With Owl', 1645-50.
#OwlishMonday #owl #17thCentury #art -
Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Beggar Seated on a Bank,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Three Crosses,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Woman Bathing her Feet in a Brook,
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@aaronm Thanks for highlighting the "drawing of the internals of a musical automaton from f.6r from Ott.lat.2981. This includes a pipe organ inside, driven by a sort of music-box mechanism, and the diagram includes the encoded music to be played by the organ." Intriguing!
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London in the 1660s, a time of great change. Why & how the #HistoricTownsTrust is preparing a new map:
https://www.historictownstrust.uk/post/london-on-the-eve-of-the-great-fire-a-talk-by-professor-vanessa-harding
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Ragged peasant with his hands behind him; holding a stick,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Ship of Fortune,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Daniels vision of the four beasts,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
View of the Amstelveenseweg outside Amsterdam,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild; Known as ‘The Syndics’,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Christ Preaching; known as La petite tombe,
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Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – freeExplore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/oct/esther-inglis
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis
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In the #17thcentury news spread that the Jewish messiah had finally arrived. Within a year Sabbatai Zevi had converted to Islam. Who was he, and what had happened?
⌛️ Last chance to read this article for free
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Old Man Shading his Eyes with his Hand,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Canal with an angler and two swans,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Goudsmid,
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🧵 15/21
I visited the Army Museum in Stockholm not because I have a special interest in military history, but on account of much of the history of early modern Sweden being a history of a state organized around war fighting. My visit to the museum helped me understand this history a little better.
I was also most interested to see the display on Sweden before and during the Second World War; this includes a special section on Raoul Wallenberg, the businessman and diplomat who saved a large number of Hungarian Jews from murder by the Nazis and their Hungarian Arrow Cross allies. This floor of the museum also has some fascinating material on espionage and counter espionage in Sweden during the war years. I am not well informed enough to know how well the museum treats the acquiescence of the Swedish government to the demands of the Nazi regime; certainly, the movement of German troops by rail across Sweden to Norway is mentioned, but I don't really know how fully and fairly that and related topics are explored. I'd be interested to know how much this difficult and sensitive period is discussed in Swedish classrooms and in the media.
All of the above I had expected to see, but what came as a total but delightful surprise was a magnificent 17th century Ottoman tent.
#Sweden #Stockholm #ArmyMuseum #History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #Ottoman #17thCentury #20thCentury
https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;41;en
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Man Crying Out,
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📚 I just finished reading De Geschiedenis Van De VOC
by Femme S. GaastraThe standard work on the VOC. I wish someone else would take a shot at writing about it, this is incredibly dry and more focussed on the financial and business side than on the political. But it does give a sobering picture and makes one wonder how a company being so mismanaged could last for 200 years.
My rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5 stars)
https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/de-geschiedenis-van-de-voc
#BookReview #Books #Reading #Nonfiction #History #EconomicHistory #TheNetherlands #17thCentury #18thCentury
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👣 NEW: Drawing on #Galileo’s 1638 argument, a mathematical explanation of why #folklore giants are physically impossible.
Since strength scales with area but weight with volume, bones collapse under a scaled-up body’s mass. The same #math shapes how real #animals are constructed, from #elephants’ thick legs to #insects’ slender builds.
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/why-gaints-are-impossible/
#galileo #science #physics #animals #evolution #biology #history #criticalthinking #nature #17thcentury #anatomy #gravity
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Bald old man with a short beard; in profile right,
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🔪🔒 Archaeologists in #Pień, #Poland uncovered a 400-year-old grave of a young woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, defenses against the dead rising.
#DNA and isotope analysis showed she was wealthy, grew up locally, and suffered malnutrition. The grave was reopened later to add the objects, as the community feared her even after death.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-archaeologists-young-woman-17th-century.html
#archaeology #vampire #history #science #anthropology #isotopes #cemetery #17thcentury #folklore #superstition
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Tobit and Anna with the Kid,
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyist-jas-knight-paints-velazquezs-juan-de-pareja
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyist-jas-knight-paints-velazquezs-juan-de-pareja
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyist-jas-knight-paints-velazquezs-juan-de-pareja
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyist-jas-knight-paints-velazquezs-juan-de-pareja
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Old man shading his eyes with his hand,
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Self-portrait in a cap: laughing,
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Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together
https://scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/29/the-scottish-song-guide-episode-1-killiecrankie/
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?—“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).
The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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Christina (1626–1689), Queen of Sweden, mid 1630s -- Attributed to Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (1600 - 1664) -- National Museum of Sweden
Yes, I love Greta Garbo and all that , but we need to ensure that the memory of Christina is not totally engulfed by Hollywood.
#History #Sweden #QueenChristina #Kristina #Portrait #Painting #17thCentury #Art
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.comDipankara
Means “lamp bearer” in Sanskrit. Also known as Dipankara Buddha.
This is 1 of the Buddhas of the past. He’s said to have lived on Earth 4 asankheyyas & 100,000 kalpas ago. Asankheyyas is a Buddhist name for the number 10 to the 140th power, as it is described in the Avatamsaka Sutra. Kalpas is a long period of time (aeon) in Hindu & Buddhist cosmology. Generally, between the creation & recreation of a world/universe.
According to Buddhists, Dipankara was a previous Buddha who attained Enlightenment eons before Gautama Buddha, the historical Buddha.
Generally, Buddhists believe that there has been a succession of many Buddhas in the distant past & that many more will show up in the future. Dipankara was 1 of these previous Buddhas. While Gautama Buddha was the current, & most recent, Enlightened 1, & Maitreya will be the next Buddha in the distant future. Chinese Buddhism honors Dipankara as 1 of many Buddhas of the past.
Dipankara, Gautama, & Maitreya are “the Buddhas of Three Times” in Yiguandao. Maitreya is often considered the Buddhist equivalent of a Messiah. Dipankara is generally depicted as a sitting Buddha. But his depictions as a standing Buddha are common in China, Thailand, & Nepal; with the right hand, he generally forms a protection mudra (abhaya mudra), & often he forms it with both hands. A mudra is a symbolic/ritual gesture/pose in Hinduism, Jainism, & Buddhism. Some mudras involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands & fingers.
Dipankara is rarely pictured alone. He’s generally pictured with 2 bodhisattvas, Manjusri & Vajrapani (common in Java) or Avalokiteśvara & Vajrapani (common in Sri Lanka); or with the Buddhas who come after him, Gautama & Maitreya.
1 of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which was destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, was said to portray Dipankara. Statues of Dipankara can also be found in the Longmen & Yungang Grottoes in China.
Photo by Lily Lili on Pexels.comOne story shown in Buddhist art has Gautama Buddha in a former incarnation known as Sumedha, a rich his long black hair on the ground, in an act of piety that the Dipankara Buddha could cross a puddle of mud without soiling his feet.
This meeting between Dipankara & Sumedha happened many lifetimes before Sumedha’s eventual enlightenment as Gautama Buddha (Shakyamuni). From this act, Dipankara told Sumedha, “In the ages of the future you’ll come to be a Buddha called ‘Shakyamuni,'” to which Sumedha replied, “I am to become a Buddha, awakened to enlightenment; may you tread with your feet on my feet – on my brith, old age, & death.”
Dipankara then said, “Freed from human existence, you’ll become an effective teacher, for the sake of the world. Born among the Shakyas, as the epitome of the Third World, the Lamp of all Beings, you’ll be known as Gautama. You’ll be the son of King Suddhodana & Queen Maya. Sariputta & Moggallana will be your chief/main disciples. Your caretaker/attendant will be named Ananda.”
In the 40-year plus of his life after enlightenment, Gautama Buddha is said to have recounted almost 554 past life stories (called Jataka tales) of his prior lives. Gautama Buddha is quoted as saying a “person starts the journey to become a Buddha filling 10 Paramita, or “perfections.”
Some sources & scriptures say that the Bodhisattva Gautama was born as Prince Sumedha in the (same) time (period) of Dipankara & was rich & gave all his wealth to become a monk. It’s said that Gautama Bodhisattva received his 1st Niyatha Vivarana (or definite foresighting by a Buddha) from Dipankara. This encounter, among many other predictions can be found in the Mahayana text Sangatha Sutra.
By the 17th century, Dipankara had become a figure of veneration in the Nepalese Buddhist communities. These followers consider him a protector of merchants & associate him with almsgiving. He’s also considered the protector of sailors, & sometimes statues of Dipankara are found on the coastline to guide & protect the ships in their route.
Some Chinese folk religionists in Taiwan & Chinese overseas communities also worshipped Dipankara Buddha.
The Buddhavamsa says that Dipankara achieved Nirvana in Nandarama, where a stupa was built which was 36 yojanas high. A yojana is a measure of distance that was used in ancient India, Cambodia, Thailand, & Myanmar. This ranges from 3.5 to 15 km (or 2.17 to 9.32 miles).
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#17thCentury #2001 #AbhayaMudra #Aeon #Afghanistan #Ananda #Asankheyyas #AvatamsakaSutra #Bodhisattva #Brahmana #Buddha #BuddhasOfBamiyan #Buddhavamsa #Buddhist #China #Dipankara #DipankaraBuddha #Enlightenment #Eons #GautamaBodhisattva #GautamaBuddha #Hindu #India #JatakaTales #Java #Kalpas #KingSuddhodana #LongmenGrottoes #MahayanaSutras #Maitreya #Manjusri #Messiah #Moggallana #Mudra #Myanmar #Nandarama #Nepal #NepaleseBuddhist #Nirvana #NiyathaVivarana #Paramita #PrinceSumedha #QueenMaya #SangathaSutra #Sanskrit #Sariputta #Shakyamuni #Shakyas #SiddharthaGautama #Stupa #Sumedha #Taiwan #Thailand #Vajrapani #Yiguandao #Yojanas #YungangGrottoes -
🎨🤺 Ah yes, the esteemed art of Venetian bridge brawls, where 17th-century hooligans turned canals into boxing rings. Just what the art world needed: paintings of people who settled disputes with fists instead of logic. Who knew Venice’s finest contribution to history was both art and amateur wrestling? 🖼️🚤
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/ #VenetianBrawls #ArtHistory #BoxingRings #CanalCulture #17thCentury #HackerNews #ngated -
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
#HackerNews #Venice #Art #History #Brawls #17thCentury #18thCentury #PublicDomainReview
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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Self-portrait with bushy hair: bust,
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Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie
A quiet family walk round Duncombe Park, or so we hoped. We picked the one weekend a mega motorcycle festival decided to roar through, and so much for peace and birdsong.
I wonder what Helmsley Castle made of the scene. Perched on a rocky outcrop above the River Rye, its shattered east tower looming over the town l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/06/20/georgie-porgie-pudding-and-pie/
#Helmsley #NorthYorkMoors #17thcentury #HistoricEngland #history
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"Archaeologist Brian Fagan argues that the whole history of Europe, from Romain [sic] exploitation of the Mediterranean to European settlement of North America, is explained by, at least in part, a search for more fish."
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Circle of Sebastian Stoskopff, 'Kitchen Still Life With Cat And Fish', 1650. #Caturday #cat #17thCentury #art
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Circle of Sebastian Stoskopff, 'Kitchen Still Life With Cat And Fish', 1650. #Caturday #cat #17thCentury #art
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Shadows over Scalloway: The Fateful Tale o’ Marion Pardone
Before the rope and the flames took her, she would have looked out over almost this exact view — the cold East Voe of Scalloway meeting the green hills of Mainland.
In the 17th century, this hill — known variously as the Hill of Berry, the Hill of Houll, and Gallow Hill — served as S ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/24/shadows-over-scalloway-the-fateful-tale-o-marion-pardone/