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unusual facts about ''Portrait of a man'', 1534, now at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum



1534

February 27 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster in Westphalia and declare it "The New Jerusalem", begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

Agostino Falivene

Agostino Falivene born from Giffoni in the province of Salerno, of the Order of the Servants of Maria, was Roman Catholic bishop of the island of Capri from the 25 September 1528 to the 24 April 1534 in that Pope Paul III transfers it to the island of Ischia where he died in 1548.

Aloisio Gritti

Aloisio Gritti (d. 1534) was a son of Andrea Gritti, the Doge of Venice.

Antoine Marcourt

He was the main protagonist of the "Affair of the Placards", on the night of 17 October 1534, in which notices appeared on the streets of Paris and other major cities denouncing Mass.

Aydın Reis

He participated in the conquest Tunis in 1534 (to be lost to Spain the next year.) He died in Bone (modern Annaba, Algeria in 1535) from natural causes.

Brion Island

Passing by the island in 1534, Jacques Cartier erected his second cross and named the island ille de Bryon after his principal expeditionary patron Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur de Brion and Admiral of France.

Canadian heraldry

The history of European-style heraldry in Canada began with the raising of the Royal Arms of France by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, when he landed on Canadian soil at what is now known as the Gaspé Peninsula.

Catherine of Saxony

Catherine of Saxony, Duchess of Münsterberg (1453–1534), daughter of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia and wife of Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg; also known as Catherine of Thuringia

Council of Trent

Pope Paul III (1534–49), seeing that the Protestant Reformation was no longer confined to a few preachers, but had won over various princes, particularly in Germany, to its ideas, desired a council.

Crediton Parish Church

Monument with effigy of Sir William Peryam (1534-1604), of Little Fulford (now Shobrooke Park) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Cross of Gaspé

The Cross of Gaspé was originally erected on July 24, 1534 overlooking the bay of Gaspé, by the team of Jacques Cartier on his first trip exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Cunhambebe

The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village.

Dirck Barendsz

Dirck Barendsz or Theodor Barendszoon (1534–1592) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam who traveled to Italy in his youth to learn from the Italian masters, most notably Titian.

Earl Fitzwilliam

Sir William Fitzwilliam (c.1460–1534) was an Alderman and Sheriff of London and acquired the Milton Hall estate in Peterborough in 1502.

Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Katharina (b 1534; d 10 May 1559) m (1557) William of Rosenberg, Senior Burgrave (Oberburggraf) of Bohemia (1535–1592)

Finding in the Temple

In late medieval depictions, the Doctors, often now carrying or consulting large volumes, may be given specifically Jewish features or dress, and are sometimes overtly anti-Semitic caricatures, like some of the figures in Albrecht Dürer's version in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Foundation of Trujillo, Peru

November 1534 by the Spanish conquistador, Diego de Almagro, who founded the first Spanish settlement in Moche Valley, naming it Trujillo of New Castile after the home city of Francisco Pizarro Trujillo of Extremadura.

Gesta Danorum

Johannes Oporinus, published 1534, title: Saxonis Grammatici Danorum Historiae Libri XVI

Giovanni de' Bardi

Giovanni de' Bardi (February 5, 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.

Henri Membertou

He first met the French when they arrived to build the Habitation at Port-Royal in 1605, at which time, according to the French lawyer and author Marc Lescarbot, he said he was over 100 and recalled meeting Jacques Cartier in 1534.

Henry Goodere

Sir Henry Goodere (1534–1595) was an English nobleman, the son of Francis Goodere of Polesworth Hall.

John Bale

He obtained the living of Thorndon, Suffolk, but in 1534 was summoned before the Archbishop of York for a sermon against the invocation of saints preached at Doncaster, and afterwards before John Stokesley, Bishop of London, but he escaped through the powerful protection of Thomas Cromwell, whose notice he is said to have attracted by his miracle plays.

John van Campen

He also commented on Psalms in a manner to earn the praises of Hupfeld ("Psalmen," iv. 474), and attached the commentary to a paraphrase which appeared at Paris, 1533; Leyden, 1534; Basle, 1548, etc.

L'Isle-Adam

Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464-1534), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

La Novelle Natura Brevium

La Novelle Natura Brevium (1534) was a treatise on English law by Anthony Fitzherbert.

Lorenzo Campeggio

Charles later (2 September 1530) gave Campeggio the Spanish bishopric of Huesca and Jaca, which he held until 17 June 1534 when he became bishop of Candia (Crete) (until 1536); in 1532, moreover, when making Campeggio's son Gianbattista bishop of Majorca, the emperor reserved the administration of the see to the young man's father.

Magdalen Islands

Jacques Cartier was the first European to visit the islands, in 1534.

Maid of Kent

Elizabeth Barton, known as the Maid of Kent (1506? – 1534), prophetess executed during the reign of Henry VIII

Manoir de Brion

The explorer Jacques Cartier was also presented to King Francis I at the Manoir de Brion before his 1534 voyage to Canada, where one of the Magdalen Islands would be named Île Brion.

Manuel Villegas Piñateli

In the book he talks about the travels by Jesuit father Antonio Possevino (born 1534, Ferrara, Italy; died February 26, 1611) acting as papal legate circa 1580.

Mary of Bourbon

The marriage was promoted by John Stewart, Duke of Albany, and by the end of 1534, his secretary Nicolas Canivet and James V's secretary Thomas Erskine of Haltoun had met the Scottish King and shown him Mary's portrait.

Mauritius Ferber

Either on 23 February 1534 or 1 March 1535, Ferber suffered a cerebral stroke, which left him unable to speak, and Copernicus wrote a prescription which was approved by the king of Poland's physician.

Monarchy in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia's first monarchical connections were formed when Jacques Cartier in 1534 claimed Chaleur Bay for King Francis I, though the area was not officially settled until King Henry IV in 1604 established a colony administered by the Governor of Acadia.

Otto III, Count of Waldeck

In 1431 Otto III pledged the village of Ehringen (now part of Volkmarsen) to Landgrave Louis I. The amount he received for the village was later increased several times, in 1455, 1472 and again in 1534.

Piero de Ponte

He became a Knights Hospitaller and was the Order's governor of the island of Lango when Rhodes fell to the Ottomans on New Year's Day 1523, and was still there in 1534 when he received the news of his election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta.

Prakashanand Saraswati

Swami Prakashanand Saraswati was of the lineage of the great Vashnavite sage of West Bengal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534).

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Richard Nykke

There is a confused story that in 1534 he ran afoul of Henry VIII, by correspondence with the Vatican.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

In 1658, the Church would establish an Apostolic Vicariate by Pope Alexander VII, 124 years since the first voyage of Jacques Cartier in 1534.

Rosina von Graben von Rain

Rosina von Graben von Rain zu Sommeregg, also called Rosina von Rain (15th century — 1534 (?)) was an Austrian noble woman descending from the House of Graben von Stein, a cadet branch of the Meinhardiner dynasty.

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

José de Anchieta (March 19, 1534–June 9, 1597), important in the early colonial history of Brazil

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

# George "the Pious" (4 March 1484, Ansbach–27 December 1534, Ansbach).

Stygge Krumpen

He opposed the ascension of Prince Christian as king in 1533, and though he formally accepted him at the Election of Christian III in 1534, Krumpen remained critical of Christian III.

Thomas Pakington

Thomas Pakington was the son of Robert Pakington a London mercer and an M.P. for the City in 1534, who was murdered in London in 1537.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (named after its founder), is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum at one of city's main boulevards.

Till-Holger Borchert

He has curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.


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