Automated Gondola Made in Augsburg, c. 1600.

On wheels, it has a radius of about 1 metre.

(Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

Landscape with St George and the Dragon (1630-1635) also by Rubens, a very different later treatment of the subject made during his time in London. The river is inspired by the Thames, and shows the view from York House towards Lambeth Royal Collection Trust

I created a GoogleDoc bibliography for resources related to the study of early modern neurodiversity/neurodivergence.

Please check it out, and help expand it if you can!

shorturl.at/nFGTW

CfP: 'The British Empire in the Art Gallery: Discourses, Practices, Publics'
📌National Portrait Gallery 27 Sept 2024
Deadline: 31 May

Join us to critically discuss the empire and the art gallery. Organised by Sean Cham (@seancham.bsky.social) and I with Centre for Museum Cultures at Birkbeck.

See: tinyurl.com/beagworkshop
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Look at this beauty, c. 1580s

James VI 📖 now has a back cover too…

I’m just bowled over by the kind words there. 😊

routledge.com/James-VI-Brita…

Chilternbirder William Whyte The Rosa is already back on the wall! One of the empty frames filled again!

This is amazing news that the stolen Salvator Rosa has been recovered in Romania! The two other artworks stolen in 2020 though - Anthony van Dyck's 'A Soldier on Horseback' and 'A Boy Drinking' by Annibale Carracci - are still missing.

Beautiful, amazing resource and a wonderful collection!

Adam and Eve with Charles I and Henrietta Maria after 1634, embroidery (Met Museum) Amazing, evoking ideas of authority and continuity.

New from Amsterdam Univ Press -

Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750
Real, Imagined, Metaphorical
Edited by Robin O'Bryan & Felicia Else
aup.nl/en/book/978946…

Congratulations to the volume editors and the contributing authors!

Today on the blog: an existing discovery by Michele Pflug of another book owned by Katherine Blount. Our picture of her library is becoming more complex. This time a book on insects: buff.ly/4auMcWi #HerBook Sarah Lindenbaum @tarallyons @whitemicheline Mark Empey

Stuart queens' reproductive bodies were closely scrutinised and managed. Their experiences are at the heart of my open-access article in the current Court Historian, 'Sacred Vessels': Maternity, Infertility and Dynastic Politics at the Stuart Court tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dr Mark Purcell Westminster Abbey Cambridge University Library Hi Dr Mark Purcell ! This is actually the effigy of Buckingham’s mother. The effigy of Katherine & Buckingham is just around the corner in the Henry VII chapel where Katherine commissioned the family monument in the 1630s. I’d love to talk more about this & the exhibition w you!

“Like a painting in silk thread' Charles I after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1641, made c. 1650-70. [h. 6 x w. 4 1/2 in/ 15.2 x 11.4 cm)] (Met Museum) An amazing piece of needlework

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James VI & I is depicted enthroned on the intricately detailed Rose Ryal of his 3rd English coinage (1619-1625). These coins were minted in very small numbers & were likely used for royal gift giving. From the collection of National Museums Scotland. #Numismatics