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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

signorcasaubon: Hans Memling - The Man of Sorrows in the Arms of the Virgin; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; 1479

signorcasaubon:

Hans Memling - The Man of Sorrows in the Arms of the Virgin; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; 1479

books0977: The Annunciation (1465-75). Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active by 1465–died 1494). Oil on wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. May have been the left wing of a triptych commissioned by the Clugny family, whose coat of arms decorates the carpet and window. The composition is based on a design by Rogier van der Weyden, painted by Memling who, technical evidence suggests, was a journeyman in Rogier’s workshop before establishing himself in Bruges in 1465.

books0977:

The Annunciation (1465-75). Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active by 1465–died 1494). Oil on wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

May have been the left wing of a triptych commissioned by the Clugny family, whose coat of arms decorates the carpet and window.

The composition is based on a design by Rogier van der Weyden, painted by Memling who, technical evidence suggests, was a journeyman in Rogier’s workshop before establishing himself in Bruges in 1465.

vcrfl: Hans Memling: Portrait of Tommaso Portinari, 1470. Tommaso Portinari (1424?-1501) was an Italian banker for the Mèdici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante’s muse, Beatrice. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of Còsimo de’ Mèdici.[1] Today he is mainly remembered for two significant commissions of Early Netherlandish paintings.

vcrfl:

Hans Memling: Portrait of Tommaso Portinari, 1470.

Tommaso Portinari (1424?-1501) was an Italian banker for the Mèdici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante’s muse, Beatrice. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of Còsimo de’ Mèdici.[1] Today he is mainly remembered for two significant commissions of Early Netherlandish paintings.

centuriespast: tsparks: Dies Irae The Day of Judgement from the centre panel of the Memling Triptych in Gdańsk. circa 1470

centuriespast:

tsparks:

Dies Irae
The Day of Judgement from the centre panel of the Memling Triptych in Gdańsk. circa 1470
uncertaintimes: Hans Memling, A man holding a coin of emperor Nero, 1473-74

uncertaintimes:

Hans Memling, A man holding a coin of emperor Nero, 1473-74