#early Baroque

[mybeautifulpoland]

Krzyżtopór Castle, Holy Cross Region, Poland by Paweł Konieczny

[maertyrer]

attributed to Giovanni Battista Paggi The Martyrdom of St. Andrew

Pen and brown ink on paper, 35.2 x 24.5 cm, 16th or 17th century

[lesser-known-composers]

Giovanni Rovetta (1596-1668) - Messa e salmi concertati, Op. 4: Dixit secondo ·

Cantus Cölln · Konrad Junghänel

[geritsel]

Jacques Callot - various horse studies

[somethingwithmoles]

Hendrick ter Brugghen, St Sebastian Tended by Irene and her Maid, 1625, oil on canvas, 149 x 119.4 cm, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[gasparodasalo]

Marco Uccellini (? - 1680) - Sinfonia for Violin and Basso continuo in a-minor, Op. 9 No. 1. Performed by Lucy van Dael, violin, Bob van Asperen, organ, and Toyohiko Satoh, liuto-attiorbato, on period instruments.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Simon Vouet (1590-1649) "Woman Playing a Guitar" (c. 1618) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

[porrigens]

do you look like the devil, Brian?

[columboscreens]

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[canisalbus]

Would Machete and Vasco have any interest in learning a musical instrument? If so, what would they play? ( cannon or original)

I have been thinking about re-learning playing piano again, and it struck me that piano seems to be a instrument Machete could enjoy playing if he had the chance.

Do I get to pick any instruments I want for them? Even kind of unlikely weirdo ones?

Machete doesn't play anything in original canon or modern au, but if he did, I think the only truly correct choice would be pipe organ.

16th century Vasco can play lute a little bit! It's not something he's very enthusiastic about but it was part of his education. Maybe he'd be more into it in the modern times.

Or, alternatively, hurdy-gurdy, which has somewhat of a darker sound to it. I just think he'd look smashing cranking that big ol' thing.

[ar-mage-ddon]

my favorite part of the beta was how clueless player looked at everything

[vintage-ukraine]

The Hours of Christ's Suffering by Unknown Artist, painted in the early XVIIIth century in Korsun, Cherkasy Region

[lesser-known-composers]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) - Paduana Lachrymae, SwWV 328 ·

Alina Rotaru, harpsichord

[marianadecarlos]

Mariana of Austria's Cancer

 On May 16, 1696, the widowed Queen Mariana of Austria died in Madrid from breast cancer. This painful disease has existed for centuries, and the chronicles written by doctors are invaluable in finding out which women suffered from it and how it developed. Unfortunately, science was still unable to provide relief and a cure, but in some cases, we can know the diagnosis and the evolution. The doctor who treated her certified Her Majesty's illness as follows: “Six days ago, our Most High Queen showed us a tumor that she has in her left breast (and that she had hidden for a long time) of the magnitude and size of a newborn's head. Although it is not between the ribs, it has its root in them, and it advances, and advances towards the exterior, showing on its surface five or six growths hard as stones.

The whole surface of the tumor is hard and purple, and it causes pains that sometimes reach the ribs and prevent Her Majesty from sleeping at night. Veins swollen with bilious blood and purple spots like those produced by trauma can be observed in the tumor. Its shape is irregular and horrible to look at, from all of which it can be deduced that it is a cancer of the kind spoken of by Galen, and which Cornelius Celsus calls “carcinoma.” It has not yet spread, but its color and the pain it causes make it feared that it will spread soon. An attempt is being made to cure it by the preservative and palliative method, with the consent of the Venerable Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and efforts are being made to prevent the tumor from growing by using attenuating and evacuating medicines, that is, by eliminating the fibrous humors and trying to reduce them. May God, Optimus, Maximus, restore Her Majesty's health and prolong her life for many years. Madrid, April 5, 1696.”

They tried to cure Doña Mariana by resorting to supernatural remedies, transporting the body of San Isidro and the Virgin of Atocha, to the Royal Alcazar, to whom the royal family was very devoted. The tumor opened up and reached a more than considerable size (the head of a seven-year-old child). The queen died on May 16, 1696 and was buried in the royal pantheon of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Source

[somethingwithmoles]

Bartolomeo Schedoni, The Deposition, 1613, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Source: Wikimedia Commons