The French Revolution gets a lot of referencing as a way of dealing with the current situation in the US and elsewhere. But let's not forget that the English were cutting off king's head a full 144 years before the French.

#trump #charlesI #french

Charles I in Three Positions -- Anthony van Dyck -- Oil on canvas - 1635/6 -- The King's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Scotland.

Neither monster nor martyr, but a flawed character doomed in his attempt to rule three divergent and strife filled kingdoms and overwhelmed by the larger social forces transforming Britain and the world.

Wonderful painting used by Bernini as a reference for his (sadly destroyed) portrait bust.

#History #Art #Painting #Portrait #Charlesi #BritishHistory #VanDyck

The executioner and the painter:

"Two artists have contributed not a little to the popularity of Charles the First, Vandyke and the Headsman."

Henry Grattan (1746-1820) on Charles I., according to Samuel Rogers, Table-Talk and Recollections.

#SamuelRogers #HenryGrattan #CharlesI #AnthonyVanDyck #execution

[Link is to a painting by van Dyck, a formal portrait showing King Charles I on horseback.]

https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Anthony_van_Dyck_-_Charles_I_with_M._de_St_Antoine.jpg

Look, folks. #historian here. The Founders (ugh, I hate that term but that's not the issue here) were Whigs.

They came out of a seventeenth-century commonwealth tradition that emphasized Parliamentary supremacy.

Because they were very sensitive to corruption and the possibility of tyranny, they would have watched the development of the postwar presidency with trepidation.

Worth remembering that seventeenth-century Englishmen killed a king they found too tyrannical.

#Trump #CharlesI

William Lawes: Think not I could absent myself this night

A dialogue between Eunomia (goddess of law) and Irene (goddess of peace) from James Shirley's court masque, The Triumph of Peace, 1634

Emily Atkinson: Eunomia (soprano)
Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
Keith McGowan: flute
Richard Mackenzie: lute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wTjEWnaO8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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#earlymodern #earlymoderndrama
#17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #history #histodon #histodons #youtube #youtubechannel #youtubemusic #opera #masque #charlesi #historical @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodon
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#lute #soprano #tenor #violin #flute #viol #violadagamba #renaissance #baroque

> Charles the First was the problem. Oliver Cromwell was the solution.

Nation - #TerryPrachett

#OlisQuoteFile

#OliverCromwell #CharlesI

William Lawes: Wherefore do my sisters stay?
The second #symphony, #song and #chorus from James Shirley's court #masque, The Triumph of Peace, which was performed for King Charles I at the Palace of #Whitehall in 1634.

Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto
Keith McGowan: #flute
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

Image: Giulio Parigi: Design for the 6th Interlude for Cosimo de Medici, 1608

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RKcVn8x_g&ab_channel=Passamezzo