Andy (he/him)
@eprenprof.bsky.social
Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
The man who killed Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota state lawmaker, and her husband, Mark, last year was ordered by a federal judge on Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Vance Boelter Ordered to Spend Life in Prison for Shooting Minnesota Lawmakers
Vance Boelter, the Minnesota man who attacked state lawmakers in their homes last year, had pleaded guilty after prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty.
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Prodigal son, welcomed home by his father. Steady, reliable brother is less pleased. By Lucas Gassel, whose day is today.
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social I feel as if we may have corresponded about this once in the past, but if not: there are some wonderful Judith and Holofernes paintings (a subject I think we both appreciate) in St Louis. Just saw them again at SLAM.
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, A Cabinet in the Artist's Studio, 1670-71, Oil on canvas, 132 x 199 cm (Statens Museum 3for Kunst, Copenhagen)
Not just another meaty kitchen scene: there's money on the cupboard door, a carnation in the butter, and something special near the fireplace. Painted in 1552 by Pieter Aertsen, whose day is today.
I was glad to see that STAM, Ghent's city museum, devotes some attention to the Calvinist Republic of 1577-84, when a Reformed Protestant regime took control. Here are portraits of the ringleaders, Francois van Ryhove and Jan van Hembyze. #reformationinthelowcountries
Exquisite angel of the Annunciation by Carlo Dolci of Florence, whose day is today.
Confident, regal, slightly intimidating woman in red dress, with dog. Painted by Jacopo Pontormo, or possibly his pupil Bronzino.
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Moses and his Nubian wife Zipporah. Great nod to the reality of race in the Old Testament from Jacob Jordaens of Antwerp, whose day is today.
Lion confronting a dragon in fab little drawing, 1505, by Domenico Beccafumi of Siena. It's his day today.
Isn’t this wonderful? The head of a stalk of Rye grass, presumably used as a bookmark in this twelfth-century Bodleian MS from Cirencester. Just lovely.
#OnThisDay in 1865, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House—marking the official end of the Civil War. https://ow.ly/A9Ty50YAGrz
On this day, Lee surrenders at Appomattox | Constitution Center
On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War.
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2/2 Saint Catherine. And her cartoon. From 1515 by the divine Raphael.
2/2 A lot of portrait effort always went into representing the sitter’s clothing. Look at all the fab fabrics on Francis!
Gabriel has stopped in street to chat with local saint, but Mary is nevertheless receiving the Holy Spirit in a marvelous Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. For the feast of the Annunciation, which is today.
My endlessly wise, wonderful, beautiful wife, Isabella Brant, painted in our garden (more or less) in 1621 by Anthony van Dyck. He was born OTD in 1599.
They made great material for woodcut broadsheets as well, a couple here from Strasbourg in 1554 and Rottenberg in 1561: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
Born on this day in 1836, in Boston, painter Winslow Homer. Here, painting some more artists sketching in the White Mountains in 1868.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.
"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
I guess I hadn’t realized he came up just a few days short (a hair short?) of a 23 year reign.
Mark Turnbull Author@1642author.bsky.social · 7mo ago👑#OTD 400 Years Ago👑 King Charles I's Coronation. William Laud, Bishop of St Davids, noted that 2nd February 1626 was a bright 'sunshiney day' and that the coronation went without interruption and in very good order. The ceremony lasted from 10:00am - 3:00pm.
Pure profile aesthetics: sheer elegance of the line for a woman's profile, 1460s, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. He was born on this day in 1430.
The lace maker, 1662. Seems so quiet, but you know her bobbins are clicking away. By Caspar Netscher, whose day is today.
Giulio Clovio painted the Tower of Babel several times, once in collaboration w/ the great Pieter Bruegel. That work is alas lost. Here is Clovio painting Babel in the Farnese Hours.
Charles II, c. 1670 Peter Lely (National Maritime Museum)
