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The Stonehenge list drew a response from 'Sem', a long-time contributor who once upon a time posted a critical but fair review of TME on the Megalithic Portal site

My own personal theory is that a ...

Your Trogus the Bogus (good one!) will have to get the treatment (though I am not volunteering myself for the task).
Pompeius Trogus is accredited with authorship of the history of Alexander the Gre ...

Lewes

Lyme Regis

(Little) Malvern/ Malvern Wells

Charlbury

Rye?

Anywhere in the Forest of Dean

Stroud.

Brighton.

Reading.

The historian Ammianus provides an account of the tumultuous situation in Britain between 364 and 369, and he describes a corrupt and treasonous administration, native British troops (the Areani or A ...

Helena apparently dies in 328 AD whatever, and her remains are placed in a "mausoleum" which had originally, so we are told, been designed to house the remains of Constantine.

After the ...

this is a perfect example of what later fakers did: create false catalogues and bibliographies containing references to and thereby provenances for the gear they are knocking up in the garden shed.
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The Teniers 'catalogue' is, aptly in my view, a Pictorial Theatre

The genre of picture-gallery paintings was well established in Flanders by the time that Teniers came to paint his. The significan ...

Teniers the Younger did more than merely curate paintings. He went on to produce a printed catalogue of the Archduke's collections. Or rather, a catalogue of his own paintings of the 'imaginary galler ...

Nicolaas Jongelinck; 1594 gift of the city of Antwerp to Archduke Ernst; 1595 estate of Archduke Ernst; Rudolf II; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm

Wiki has quite a detailed entry for Jonghelinck

Nicolaes ...

My son had told me the name doing the rounds among the people he follows was Huw Edwards. Normally I don't take much notice as he tends to have conspiracy-type interests but this time it sounded 'righ ...

An academicky painter of my acquaintance said

From my experience of their work I'd say that most of the works I've seen attributed to Giovani Bellini and Mantegna were pretty good while the other ...

Coningham toured around Europe acquiring Old Masters on his own initiative and apparently at bargain prices

Born into a wealthy family with military connections, he briefly attended Trinity Colle ...

It sounds like a Mantegna - Bellini family affair. The National Gallery isn't quite sure if the drawing was the work of Andrea Mantegna or of Jacopo Bellini

This painting dates from early in Mante ...

The poster tried to wriggle away when asked why no archaeological traces of a monastery on Iona have been detected

That's because there wasn't a monastry there at that time, It was a collection of ...

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Topic: Who Built The Stones?
Hatty Replies: 199 Views: 82092	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 9:16 am Subject: Who Built The Stones?
Hatty Replies: 199 Views: 82092	The Stonehenge list drew a response from 'Sem', a long-time contributor who once upon a time posted a critical but fair review of TME on the Megalithic Portal site My own personal theory is that a ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Forum: British History Posted: 2:08 pm Subject: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Your Trogus the Bogus (good one!) will have to get the treatment (though I am not volunteering myself for the task). Pompeius Trogus is accredited with authorship of the history of Alexander the Gre ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 2497 Views: 430964	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:19 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 2497 Views: 430964	Lewes Lyme Regis (Little) Malvern/ Malvern Wells Charlbury Rye? Anywhere in the Forest of Dean
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 2497 Views: 430964	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:15 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 2497 Views: 430964	Stroud. Brighton. Reading.
Topic: Comments on Walking Ancient Landscapes
Hatty Replies: 870 Views: 258723	Forum: British History Posted: 1:02 am Subject: Comments on Walking Ancient Landscapes
Hatty Replies: 870 Views: 258723	The historian Ammianus provides an account of the tumultuous situation in Britain between 364 and 369, and he describes a corrupt and treasonous administration, native British troops (the Areani or A ...
Topic: COIN
Hatty Replies: 746 Views: 212799	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:45 am Subject: COIN
Hatty Replies: 746 Views: 212799	Helena apparently dies in 328 AD whatever, and her remains are placed in a "mausoleum" which had originally, so we are told, been designed to house the remains of Constantine. After the ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Forum: British History Posted: 8:39 am Subject: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	this is a perfect example of what later fakers did: create false catalogues and bibliographies containing references to and thereby provenances for the gear they are knocking up in the garden shed. ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Forum: British History Posted: 1:46 pm Subject: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	The Teniers 'catalogue' is, aptly in my view, a Pictorial Theatre The genre of picture-gallery paintings was well established in Flanders by the time that Teniers came to paint his. The significan ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Forum: British History Posted: 12:53 pm Subject: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Teniers the Younger did more than merely curate paintings. He went on to produce a printed catalogue of the Archduke's collections. Or rather, a catalogue of his own paintings of the 'imaginary galler ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Forum: British History Posted: 8:52 am Subject: Red and Green Flags
Hatty Replies: 45 Views: 9245	Nicolaas Jongelinck; 1594 gift of the city of Antwerp to Archduke Ernst; 1595 estate of Archduke Ernst; Rudolf II; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm Wiki has quite a detailed entry for Jonghelinck Nicolaes ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 4281 Views: 574400	Forum: Politics Posted: 6:41 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 4281 Views: 574400	My son had told me the name doing the rounds among the people he follows was Huw Edwards. Normally I don't take much notice as he tends to have conspiracy-type interests but this time it sounded 'righ ...
Topic: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	Forum: British History Posted: 10:47 am Subject: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	An academicky painter of my acquaintance said From my experience of their work I'd say that most of the works I've seen attributed to Giovani Bellini and Mantegna were pretty good while the other ...
Topic: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	Forum: British History Posted: 3:31 pm Subject: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	Coningham toured around Europe acquiring Old Masters on his own initiative and apparently at bargain prices Born into a wealthy family with military connections, he briefly attended Trinity Colle ...
Topic: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	Forum: British History Posted: 1:07 pm Subject: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 470 Views: 124619	It sounds like a Mantegna - Bellini family affair. The National Gallery isn't quite sure if the drawing was the work of Andrea Mantegna or of Jacopo Bellini This painting dates from early in Mante ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2683 Views: 551556	Forum: British History Posted: 8:36 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2683 Views: 551556	The poster tried to wriggle away when asked why no archaeological traces of a monastery on Iona have been detected That's because there wasn't a monastry there at that time, It was a collection of ...