Dirk Schoenaersさんのイラストまとめ

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra
Augustus and Livia Drusilla
Paris, BnF, Français 594
#DominaSkyOriginal

@SLevelt Dog with a bone

This stained glass window from a church in Brussels was destroyed during the bombardments of August 1695, but this drawing shows that Englebert d'Enghien had the cutest little puppy.

How it started - How it's going
The Antwerp giant Druon Antigoon
16th-c. drawing (c. 1556?, Valenciennes, BM, 805, f.23)
Head (c. 1534-1535, Antwerp MAS)
Giant (c. 2000)

Mise en abyme. Book inside the book. BL, Harley 612, England, c. 1425-1475. Texts by & about Bridget of Sweden (incl. her Revelationes).
The text in the drawing is Revelationes, Book 6, cap. 39, 7.
https://t.co/QMNLHHQQAv

Xenomorph XX121: "With the state of the industry being what it is at the moment, I thought, why not audition. You can imagine my surprise when they called me to say that I had got the part."

Image left: Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 438
Image right: Southpark

'Daer doen si simmen speren breken, [...] Din esel dansen ende springen.'
In their romances, they make monkeys joust and donkeys dance and jump about
(Life of St. Lutgart of Tongres, II, vv. 96 & 98)

Images: Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, 0143,
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand

'Ce est une raison por quoi cist escriz nest mie fait en chantant mes encontant'
Northern Italian copy (c. 1290) of the French Prose 'Bestiaire', with a rather fierce-looking swan
New York, Morgan Library, M. 459
https://t.co/wRBdii9cA9

In stormy weather, the courier rides along the beach to bring the news of sinking ships.
Anonymous, the Netherlands, between 1570 and 1650.
https://t.co/w57P32Q6B1