While perusing Returns of aliens dwelling in the city and suburbs of London from the reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, I happened across a familiar name amongst the entries in 1571:

This is almost certainly the artist Lucas de Heere, who would have been living in England at this time.
In case the […]

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Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes, and Discoveries is at the The National Gallery in London through September 12.
The exhibition will showcase some of the most intriguing stories behind paintings in the Gallery, as it explores the ways in which advances in scholarship and technology can reveal the misconceptions of the past.

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Imagined Lives: Mystery Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, c.1540-1640, at the Montacute House through October 31, 2011,
looks in detail at thirteen portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, of sitters whose identities were uncertain. All dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these portraits were originally thought to depict famous people including Queen Elizabeth I […]

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Die Schlacht von Tannenberg 1410 is at Neue Burg in Vienna, Austria through October 10.
The exhibition commemorates the 600th anniversary of the battle of Tannenberg (or Grunwald), in what is now Poland, in which the knights of the Teutonic Order were defeated by the combined armies of Poland and Lithuania.

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L’avventura del Vetro dal Rinascimento al Novecento tra Venezia e mondi lontani is at Castello del Buonconsiglio through November 7.

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Burg und Herrschaft im Mittelalter is at the Deutches Historisches Museum Berlin through October 24.

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