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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #ChessmenAndChessSets #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
➡️ digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
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Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
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♲ @babel56@twitter.com:#ChessmenAndChessSets
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
Cf. the discussion in: twitter.com/babel56/status…
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♲ @babel56@twitter.com:❗️Notice the Selenus chessmen❗️
Any other examples known before 1616? I. e. before the chess book of Augustus II (1579–1666) = Gustavus Selenus?
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#chesssmen #ChessPiece #SelenusStyle #SelenusChessSet #SelenusChessmen #SelenusChessPieces #Selenus1616