Jane Hoodlessさんのイラストまとめ

George Harrison–born #OTD 1943–whose mother, while pregnant with him, often listened to the weekly broadcast Radio India. "Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars & tablas, hoping that the exotic music would bring peace & calm to the baby in the womb."

During a production of his final play, The Imaginary Invalid, Molière, who suffered from pulmonary TB, was seized by a coughing fit & a haemorrhage while playing the hypochondriac Argan. He finished the performance but collapsed again & died a few hours later #OTD 1673.

Biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician & artist Ernst Haeckel–born #OTD 1834–discovered, described & named 1000s of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, & coined many terms in biology. #ArtFormsOfNature #SeaCreatures

Considered the first officially recognised royal mistress (Charles VII of France), Agnès Sorel died #OTD 1450, aged 28. Influential, with extravagant tastes & powerful enemies at court, she established a fashion of wearing low-cut gowns with one breast fully bared at court.

The Great Picture was commissioned in 1646 by Anne Clifford–born #OTD 1590–& depicts significant elements about her life & succession to her paternal inheritance, gained after a lengthy legal dispute. She is shown as a girl & a mature woman, either side of her parents & brothers.

Polymath, Edward Lear–died #OTD 1888–was the first major bird artist to draw birds from real live birds, instead of skins. His nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention & a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real & imaginary.

George III died #OTD 1820, incapable of knowing or understanding that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife died in 1818. He was satirised as 'Farmer George' to mock his interest in mundane matters & to contrast his homely thrift with his son's grandiosity.

Radical herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper–died #OTD 1654–believed medicine was a public asset rather than a commercial secret & "no man deserved to starve to pay an insulting, insolent physician". In his opinion, examining "as much piss as the Thames might hold" didn't help diagnosis.

Debate regarding the tomb of Giotto–died #OTD 1337–initiated forensic examinations at two sites. One, of a man less than 4' tall, pointed to him being a painter, showed a presence of arsenic & lead, & neck bones that indicated he spent much time with his head tilted backwards.

Joseph Cornell–died #OTD 1972–elevated the found object to the centre of his oeuvre & embodied a new paradigm of the artist as collector & archivist. Rejecting Surrealism's violent & erotic aspects, he preferred what he described as the 'white magic' side of Surrealism.