Gateway to Lyneham House #Devon ~ the current house was built in the C18th by Sir Courtenay Crocker whose family had lived at Lyneham since the C14th - apparently some of the fabric of the older house is incorporated into this one. #History#winter
Depiction of Anna of Masovia, Titular Duchess of Masovia, and a member of the House of Piast. She was the last representative of the line of Masovian-Piast.
Relief on memorial to Susan Calmady & her children Edward, Mary & Elizabeth, 3 February 1645, St Andrew's Church #Plymouth#Devon - cause of death isn't given but this would have been during the siege of the city in the civil war #mementomori#History
English actor, Sir Henry Irving, was born #OnThisDay in 1838. He wore this theatrical ensemble of a silk doublet and hose, embellished with seed pearls, as Benedick in the 1882 Lyceum production of Much Ado About Nothing alongside Ellen Terry. @V_and_A#actor#theatre#costume
#ArtLovers
magnificenza di frammenti
Carlo Braccesco 🎨
esponente del Rinascimento in Liguria
1 Sant’Erasmo e san Girolamo
2 Santo vescovo e san Pantaleo
#VentagliDiParole#art
Today is the feast of St Dorothy, patron of brewers and florists. She holds a basket of flowers on the screen at Wiggenhall St Mary, Norfolk, and also at Eye, Suffolk, where unfortunately her face has been poorly restored.
WSM: https://t.co/8WH5rHAbTN
Eye: https://t.co/l0kdb1a4zd