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Charles I in Three Positions -- Anthony van Dyck -- Oil on canvas - 1635/6 -- The King's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Scotland.

Neither monster nor martyr, but a flawed character doomed in his attempt to rule three divergent and strife filled kingdoms and overwhelmed by the larger social forces transforming Britain and the world.

Wonderful painting used by Bernini as a reference for his (sadly destroyed) portrait bust.

#History #Art #Painting #Portrait #Charlesi #BritishHistory #VanDyck

William Lawes: Wherefore do my sisters stay?
The second #symphony, #song and #chorus from James Shirley's court #masque, The Triumph of Peace, which was performed for King Charles I at the Palace of #Whitehall in 1634.

Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto
Keith McGowan: #flute
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

Image: Giulio Parigi: Design for the 6th Interlude for Cosimo de Medici, 1608

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RKcVn8x_g&ab_channel=Passamezzo

Learn how a story about the 17th century's greatest manhunt inspired Robert Harris to write his superb #WalterScottPrize shortlisted novel ACT OF OBLIVION (Hutchinson Heinemann) in this exclusive interview http://bit.ly/WSPharissl

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Simon Ives' symphony to the (now lost) fifth song in James Shirley's #masque The Triumph of Peace, performed at Whitehall for Charles I in 1634.
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin
Keith McGowan: #flute
Richard Mackenzie: #theorbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2I65Ds00Jw&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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#recordingartist
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#seventeenthcentury
#baroque
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A #song from William Hawkins' #play Apollo's Shroving, which was first performed by schoolchildren in #Hadleigh in #Suffolk on #ShroveTuesday 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #bass
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6Cf4zuZoA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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#pancakeday #history #music #CharlesI #17thCentury #earlymoderndrama

#JamesUssher witnessed the prelude to the execution of #CharlesI from the roof of the house where he was staying.

"when his
Majesty had done speaking, and had pulled off his cloak
and doublet, and stood stripped in his waistcoat, and that
the villains in vizards began to put up his hair, the good
Bishop no longer able to endure so dismal a sight, and being
full of grief and horror for that most wicked fact now ready
to be executed, grew pale and began to faint"

https://books.google.ie/books?id=LAvjSlLunYAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=life+of+ussher&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Faint&f=false

@court @HistParl @histodons @royalhistory have you read ACT OF OBLIVION, the latest from #RobertHarris? The most harrowing description of the execution of #CharlesI.

#historicalFiction #histfic #ActofOblivion