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John McCafferty

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A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.

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The Ó Cléirigh seminars in UCD resume this Friday 10 Oct at 4pm with Conor McDonough OP (Galway): ’Melchisedech in Early Irish Biblical Tradition’

Fáilte roimh chách / all are welcome.

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Swans seen from Granard Bridge, Royal Canal, Dublin.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 7h

Friday 10 Oct, Dublin

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A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’, Peeter Baltens, c. 1570

The farce is about a man – hidden in a pedlar’s basket – who catches his wife cheating on him with a cleric.

(Rijksmuseum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Little known uses for codpieces

Detail from A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’, Peeter Baltens, c. 1570

(Rijksmuseum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

The Brawlers or Les Gourmeurs
1601
Francesco Villamena

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Portrait of a Girl with a Dog
17th Century, Unknown artist

(Nationalmuseum Sweden)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Queen Christina of Sweden, d. 19 Apr 1689
Sébastien Bourdon, 1616-1671

(Nationalmuseum, Sweden)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Portrait of Ioannes Altus (Johann Alten), of the Swiss Guard, standing by the Quirinal and pointing out the antiquities of Rome
Francesco Villamena, b. Assisi c. 1565 – d.1624 Rome

(Met Museum)

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Gardener, Francesco Villamena, c. 1576 - 1624

(Rijksmuseum)

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Girl with a Parrot
1670s
Follower of Gerrit Dou

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants, 1667
Gabriël Metsu (Minneapolis Institute of Art)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Jacob de Gheyn (II), ca. 1575 - ca. 1625 (Rijksmuseum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Two double combs from 1550, part of a set.
Survival of such intimate objects is especially evocative, I think.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

The Brussels Picture Gallery of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria' 1614–1662 by David Teniers II (NTPetworth)

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9 Oct 1548: John Cheke, tutor to Edward VI, becomes Provost of King's College #Cambridge at £100 p.a. on royal mandamus #otd (BM) Under Mary I, Cheke would make a humiliating recantation of his #Protestant views.

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9 Oct 1604: Richard Bancroft nominated Archbishop of Canterbury #otd He oversaw the translation project producing the Authorised Version of the #Bible or King James Bible (NPG)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Four regents and the 'house father' of the leper house in Amsterdam, by Werner van den Valckert, 1624.

The relief behind the group illustrates an appropriate biblical scene: dogs licking the sores of Lazarus, the beggar from the parable afflicted with leprosy.

(Rijksmuseum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

The pillar at Seven Dials, #London
elevation of a Doric pillar on a pedestal, with pinnacle at the top surrounded by sundials

Drawn by Edward Pierce II
1693-1694

(British Museum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

St Mary Magdalene,

Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1452-65

(British Museum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

Groat of Henry VIII, 1526-1529.

(British Museum)

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Tankard, of ivory, with decorated lid, first half of the 17th century. 22cm high.

For that weirdly elegant pint...

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

9 Oct 1595: The Earl of #Tyrone agrees a truce in #Ulster with the Crown government #otd (BL)

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

9 Oct 1528: Cardinal Campeggi arrives in #England with a papal commission allowing the trial & decision of Henry VIII's 'great matter' in #England #otd

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h

9 Oct 1599: d. Reginald Scot at Smeeth, #Kent #otd - popular writer on hop-growing & witch finding - an interesting combination (eebo)