Dr. Peter Paul Rubensさんのイラストまとめ

Animal comedy-dramas with Pieter Lastman, #1: Jonah shocked to be expelled from belly of the whale, 1621. Today is Lastman's day.

Chinese vase, spectacular. Flowers, even more spectacular. Small bug, just hanging around on the table. As recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist. It's her beautiful day.

Farmer's peony with narcissus, as studied by Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian. Ran in the family, this natural talent!

Another side of nature's wonders: guava tree w/ army ants, pink-toed tarantulas (yes!!), huntsman spiders, & ruby-topaz hummingbird, v. dead. Wow. By Maria Sibylla Merian, born OTD in 1647.

2/2 Life cycle of the Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly, beautifully documented by Maria Sibylla Merian for her book on the insects of Surinam. Today is her day.

Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

Died (but not eaten) on this day in 1598, in Frankfurt, engraver, editor & publisher Theodor de Bry. Brought images of goings-on in New World to fascinated public in Europe. Here, a delightful cannibal barbecue.

Flowers and asparagus, mysteriously combined in this painting by my colleague Jan Fyt. Born on this day 1611.

Birds, alive: very noisy concert of birds painted by my coleague Jan Fyt, who was born on this day in 1611.

Flowers in a stone niche, w/ some lizards & insects. Vanitas: stone is cracking, flowers will die -- but not these ones painted in 1615 by Roelant Savery! Today is his day.