To quote their own blurb:
‘The Sacred Made Real’ presents a landmark reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age with works created to shock the senses and stir the soul.
Paintings, including masterpieces by Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán, are displayed for the very first time alongside Spain’s remarkable polychrome wooden sculptures.
By ‘polychrome wooden [...]
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‘The Sacred Made Real’ at the National Gallery
27 October 2009 – 2:44 pm
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26 November 2008 – 2:00 pm
BibliOdyssey: Roots and Trunks
C17th cross-sections of plants
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28 June 2008 – 1:01 pm
BibliOdyssey: Metoposcopia
The use of forehead wrinkles for character analysis: fabulous illustrations from a C17th manuscript.
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Going Dutch by Lisa Jardine
1 June 2008 – 9:55 am
Full, slightly overblown title: Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory. This is a book about the relationship between England and Holland in the C17th. It’s an interesting period, of course: the C17th was Holland’s ‘Golden Age’, when the country was not only a wealthy global power but at the intellectual and especially artistic forefront of Europe. For [...]
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26 May 2008 – 9:00 am
Cockle bread – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Found while looking for something else: 'Seventeenth century English women usually "got their man" by baking a 'cockle bread', a bread whose dough was kneaded and pressed against the woman's vulva and then baked.'
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The Century of Revolution by Christopher Hill
28 April 2008 – 11:53 am
The full title is The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714; i.e. the century in question is the longish C17th from the death of Queen Elizabeth to the death of Queen Anne. I guess most centuries are centuries of revolution somewhere, and in one way or another, but the C17th was the only time the English have had an actual [...]