Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Art and there is so much of it. Reubens, SP gets a print, but which which one may one. One of these may be:
portrait of a woman?-may be not?
http://spanierman.com/artists/rubensindianwoman.htm
janus and adonis?
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/r/rubens/22mythol/02venusa.jpg
Van Dyke, Veermeer( Using His perspective machine ) Jan Steen , Rembrandt, Pieter de Hooch , Nicolaes Maes and more:
An English embroidered panel: The Restoration of Charles II, about 1665.
This panel is created on a white satin fabric using a great variety of complex embroidery stitches and padding to raise the surface (a technique often described as “stumpwork”). The motifs in the background, including leaves, birds, flowers and insects, are embroidered in flat stitches, but wires covered with silk stitches have been used to form leaves on the tree, the wigs and parts of the costumes of the figures, which are also padded with wool.
The picture depicts a number of scenes from the life of Charles II, including his hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel house after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, his flight on horseback disguised as a female servant, his restoration to the English Crown in 1660, assisted by General Monck, and his marriage to Catherine of Braganza in 1662.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/holburne/collection/dec-art/panel.html
Another Panel. (click to enlarge)
Embroidered Panel, English, mid-late 17th century. Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. Raised work and beadwork on white satin. Copyright © Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery. Photo: Paul Dixon.
http://www.kipar.org/baroque-costumes/costumes_embroidery.html
Question:
Is there a picture of Samuel Pepys?
Portraits of Sam
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw04948
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?ID=BHC2947
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