Etiket: 17thcentury
China commemorates Ferdinand Verbiest, a 17th-century…
– Ferdinand Verbiest built a new set of instruments for the Beijing Observatory – Verbiest was partly responsible for the change of the Chinese calendar – He introduced the thermometer…
In 17th-century drawings you learned to skillfully portray a ‘poop’ or a stork
Drawings were the capital of the seventeenth-century painter. Elaborate, sometimes colored pages could be sold to collectors. But above all an artist built up a reservoir of impressions, figures, motifs…