The term ‘ganzes Haus’ (literally the ‘whole house’, i.e., household-family) refers to a particular form of communal...

Bellmaker

1568

The Tödlein-Schrein (Shrine of Little Death) demonstrates the interest in human anatomy that grew during the...

Bezoars are concretions found in the stomachs of ruminants. Smaller ones were ground up and used for medicinal...

Bezoar, c. 1600

1600

The so-called ‘defenestration of Prague’ in May 1618 is regarded as the beginning of the armed conflicts which took...

Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini came from an aristocratic family in northern Italy. From 1652 he lived in Vienna, where his...
Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini

* 1636, † 12. Dec 1707

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