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Today is the 540th anniversary of the death of Charles the Bold

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Today’s is the 540th anniversary of Burgundy’s darkest day, with the death of Charles the Bold on January 5th, 1477. This is the most famous portrait of him, by Rogier van der Weyden, from about 1462, currently in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

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