Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-19 12:36:20

Yesterday I found the only surviving two lottery tickets from Count Palffy's raffle of the Theater an der Wien in 1819. The main prize included the theater, Palffy's Palais in Hernals and a jewelry collection.

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-18 17:24:44

A signature of Hans Kmoch when he was still "Johann Josef". #chess #chesshistory

Nina Who?🦉

2021-08-17 22:21:32

Zwei Runden Schach gegen den Freund gespielt, einmal Remis, einmal Matt.
Current mood:

John McCafferty

2021-08-18 11:41:09

Francken, Hieronymus II. 1578-1623

Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

(The Hermitage Museum)

Playing Card Makers

2021-08-17 07:10:46

Fab eh? Soon to be back in the display case in The Chamberlain’s court at Guildhall.

John McCafferty

2021-08-18 09:59:25

'La main chaude' is a game in which one person hides their face another's lap & guesses who slapped their hand.

Hieronymus Janssens, 1674; 1660/70 (Museum of London/Louvre )
Gerrit Lundens, 1643/48 (Essex Co. Council)
Follower of Janssens, 1665/6 (National Gallery London)

LEO-BW

2021-08-18 08:35:11

Lust auf ein kleines Spiel? Heute schauen wir uns im Blog ein historisches #Kartenspiel aus der Zeit um 1430 an, das zu den wertvollsten Objekten des @LMWStuttgart gehört 🙂

Zum Beitrag ➡️ leo-bw.de/web/guest/blog…

[Bild: Landesmuseum Württemberg]

Chess Forum

2021-08-17 10:44:33

Muhammad Ali getting ready for a game of chess.
Ali was a reasonable amateur player in his day and thought it helped his boxing by making him think tactically.
In his latter years, he played a game of chess against Mike Tyson and beat him.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-17 17:14:35

Some pages of "The CHESS PLAYER," published in Boston by Nathaniel Dearborn. 1841.

It contains:

B. Franklin's Essay on the Morals of Chess;
G. Walker, Introduction to the Rudiments of Chess
3 simul games played by Philidor;
60 Openings, Mates and Situations, by W.S. Kenney

History Scotland

2021-08-16 09:24:03

J.M. Barrie's celebrity cricket team

In the latest History Scotland, Pitamber Kaushik takes a look at a celebrity team assembled by author J.M. Barrie in the years before World War I #history

Get your copy today - historyscotland.com/store/back-iss…

(image copyright Wellcome Collection)

Howard Staunton

2021-08-16 10:00:55

Could skill in war, politics, law or divinity be tested, as surely as expertness in chess, how much pompous ignorance would find its proper level.

John McCafferty

2021-08-16 06:36:26

James (II) Duke of #York, print made c.1640-1650.

A little different than the usual depictions of him.

(British Museum)

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-16 05:17:00

1984
John Hurt

Xerses phus

2021-08-16 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 10/n
Unknown artist
Apes playing chess
1st half of the 14th century (?)
Naumburg Cathedral, Germany; north side of the east choir
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #ArchitecturalSculpture #NaumburgCathedral #MiddleAges

Howard Staunton

2021-08-15 13:01:04

Chess reckons among its votaries men of the senate, the bar, and the pulpit.

John McCafferty

2021-08-14 14:04:40

Four sets of cardplayers

(All from the Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

Jan Steen, 1664.
David Teniers, 1643.
The Brothers Le Nain, c. 1630-1640.
Pieter de Hooch, 1658.

The MET: Egyptian Art (Bot)

2021-08-14 10:21:18

Game piece, ca. 2124–1504 B.C. metmuseum.org/art/collection… #themet #egyptianart

Hanna Jansson

2021-08-13 21:47:00

Now, feast your Friday eyes on these absolutely gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Birka grave Bj. 750.

📸Ola Myrin, SHM. CC-BY
mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.as…

Arkansas Archeological Survey

2021-08-13 14:00:02

For Friday the 13th, we present this ceramic doll arm from our teaching collection. Ceramic doll parts are sometimes found on historic sites. The doll's body was made of cloth with the limbs sewed on. The soft material decays, leaving only the limbs to be found archeologically.

David Llada ♞

2021-08-13 05:59:55

“Chess Game”, by Will Barnet, 1973.

Xerses phus

2021-08-13 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 9/n
Lucan von Leyden
The game of chess
Oil on panel
ca. 1508
Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #painting #LeydenLucanVan #Leyden1508

John McCafferty

2021-08-11 10:09:23

As an Arctic #walrus has now turned up in West Cork messing about in people's boats, I thought I'd tweet an image of one of its 16th century predecessors

(Walrus, unknown artist, 1550 - 1570, Rijksmuseum)

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-11 18:59:20

Math is a playful thing!

Left, icosahedron die. Faces with Greek letters, from the Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period, 2nd century B.C.–4th century A.D., found in Egypt (MET collection).

Right, Leonardo da Vinci illustration for Luca Pacioli's book, Divina Proportione, 1509.

Jill Burke

2021-08-11 07:07:15

I'm going to the funeral of my friend Michael Bury (1947-2021) today. He was an art historian best known for his work on 16th c Italian prints. In the British Museum online , his work is quoted 100s of times - here he is identifying a game about owls
britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-10 23:53:47

Murders in the Rue Morge
(1986)
George C Scott, Van Kilmer

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-07 01:05:31

"De Ludo Scachorum,” by Luca Pacioli, early 1500s, is believed by some it has illustrations by or based on a chess set designed by no less than Leonardo da Vinci.

Others cast some doubts on it.

I just enjoy the diagram and the possibility...

Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Landesmuseum Württemberg

2021-08-10 09:44:04

Diese 3 Löwen zieren denselben Bronzekessel. Die hinteren 2 stammen aus einer griechischen Werkstatt in Italien. Der vordere entspricht der Bildsprache des frühkeltischen Mitteleuropas. Erkennt ihr die Unterschiede?
Hochdorfer Kessel: buff.ly/3A7rqtc
#WeltLöwenTag #Kelten

Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya

2021-08-10 09:00:37

🎲 Sabies que el joc era uns dels elements més importants de l’oci a època romana?

Aquest dissabte, el #MACempúries ha preparat un divertit taller per conèixer els jocs a l’antiguitat, i fabricarem una bosseta amb daus per jugar com els antics romans!

👉 loom.ly/ktS7biM

Norbert Wallet

2021-08-10 08:43:50

Da ist es endlich. Zusammen mit FM Jürgen Brustkern habe ich im Beyer-Verlag ein Buch über das traditionsreichste Schachturnier der Welt geschrieben. Es stellt Kämpfer, Künstler und Königsjäger vor und ist eine Einladung zur Entdeckungsreise...
#Schach
#chess
#chesshistory

Jon-Paul Dyson

2021-08-09 15:30:57

From Untitled Goose Game to the Royal Game of Goose, a not-so-deep dive into the history of animals as a theme for games in my latest blog: museumofplay.org/blog/2021/08/q…

Marielle J.PdeG

2021-08-06 16:03:37

"Hnefatafl" le jeu de société au cœur de la culture viking
gusandco.net/2019/10/19/hne…

Lucy Worsley

2021-08-06 19:39:14

I really love the grumpy queen from this reproduction set of Lewis chess pieces. Totally exuding the vibe of the mum who comes home after a hard day’s work to find that no other family member has emptied the bins.

precious

2021-08-08 17:48:23

taken at a tiny chess museum 😁

Xerses phus

2021-08-09 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 7/n
Hans Muelich
Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria and his consort Anna of Austria playing chess
Miniature
1552
in: Jewel Book of the Duchess Anna of Bavaria; Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #minature #IlluminatedManuscript #Muelich1552

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-08-08 08:49:52

English boys playing chess and Hitler Youth boys playing checkers (Corbis Archive).

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-07 23:37:23

Brats (1930)
Laurel & Hardy