Dr. Peter Paul Rubensさんのイラストまとめ

2/2 A whole landscape filled with birds, including a dodo, painted in 1628 by Roelant Savery. Memorialist of dodo's.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1639, Roelant Savery. Painter of (mostly) the natural world but occasionally the unnatural. Here, a dodo from 1626. Also died, alas!

Will that very distant ship see him before the storm hits? All Terror: The Gulf Stream, 1899, by Winslow Homer. Today is his day.

2/2 Women of Alexandria gathered to hear preaching of Saint Mark. By Gentile Bellini, 1505. Had never been to Egypt, but had been to Constantinople. It’s been his day.

Masterful study of the heads of three French magistrates. Such wonderfully observed characters! Painted by my colleague Frans Pourbus the younger, who died (alas!) on this day 1622.

Executed (alas!) OTD in 1554, Lady Jane Grey. Those crazy Tudors! Always executing people. Here the tragic event as imagined by Paul Delaroche.

2/2 Anne Cresacre, daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas More, and his foster daughter Margaret Giggs. He was born OTD 1478. And they were drawn by Holbein.

Sir John More, well into his 70s, lost in the thoughts of old age. Father of Sir Thomas More, and wonderfully drawn here by Hans Holbein. Love this drawing!

2/2 Archangel Michael in fierce battle with the devil. Looking rather sweet nonetheless, as (arch)angels are wont to do. Especially when painted by Antonio de Pereda.

3/3 More fruit in baskets, now with riper strawberries. Fruit was Louise Moillon's thing. And today is her day.