Ālea jacta est

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor!

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Oh my God

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And from the side

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Oh my God

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And from the side

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Oh my God

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Love the largely early reign genre of Charles V painting where they clearly just locked in on the jaw and then didn't know what to do about it.

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They were clearly trying and just. Couldn't get over it

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[things-that-are-not-true]

it's my birthday today and so everyone has to give me gifts or else yours a stupid fucking piece of shit asshole

[joeyclaire]

instead of “this person made good art so they can’t be a bad person” try looking at it like this: “this person made art so they can’t be a good person”

[cparti-mkiki]

Hi welcome to my spanish monarchs tutorial

✨ part 1 ✨

[george-steel-armours]

Landsknecht armors made in Augsburg in Bavaria between 1550 and 1560.

In the Churburg Castle we‘ll find eight armors made in this same style. Every single armor is decorated with a different, tipical scenes on the breastplate, such as biblical representations or the Tyrolean eagle.

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Suddenly getting notes on my Ferdinand I content. Impossible. How...

[met-egyptian-art]

Model shield via Egyptian Art

Medium: Wood, stucco, paint

Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/546270

[eatingbreadandhoney]

Rudolf II of Hamsburg or Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1590.

[jeannepompadour]

A masquer in “Brittannia Triumphans” and costume for the King in the masquerade “Salmacida Spolia” by William Davenant, 1638 and 1640 respectively   

[heaveninawildflower]

Vine leaves (Flemish, circa 1600-1620) by Aert Spiering (probably).

Watercolour and bodycolour

© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

[kuriozalia]

Simon Vouet, Angel Holding the Vessel and Towel for washing the hands of Pontius Pilate, c. 1624

[littlehistorian]

King Louis XIII on Horseback. French School.

[amightydirge]

Pair of Gauntlets Belonging to the Armor of Duke Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick (1591–1634)

Date: ca. 1610–1613 Geography: Greenwich Culture: British, Greenwich Medium: Steel, gold, leather, textile, copper alloy Dimensions: proper left gauntlet, H. at cuff 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); W. at cuff 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); L. 14 9/16 in. (37 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 14 oz. (845 g); proper right gauntlet, H. at cuff 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); W. at cuff 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); L. 14 3/16 in. (36 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 15 oz. (883 g)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Portrait of Signor Scalzi by Charles Joseph Flipart, c 1730–40