Dr. Peter Paul Rubensさんのイラストまとめ

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 in 1622.

2/2 Alas poor Jane! Seventeen years old, queen for nine days. Then dead. In Paul Delaroche's painting, she is guided towards execution block by Sir John Brydges, Lieutenant of the Tower.

4/4 Blazing sun sets over the mountains at the end of a long day's battle at Issus. Amazing work by Albrecht Altdorfer, whose day is today.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian King Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.

2/2 Horrible barbaric Europeans massacring lovely innocent camels. Sorry, world! Pictured by Jan van der Straet, aka Stradanus, whose day was today.

Vespucci discovering America. Isn't she cute? With a little light cannibalism in the background. By Jan van der Straet, aka Stradanus, whose day is today.

2/2 Teaser: whose men and what are they making?

2/2 Anne Cresacre, daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas More who was born OTD 1478, and his foster daughter Margaret Giggs. Here in gorgeous preparatory drawings for the More family portrait by Hans Holbein.

2/2 A Dutch three-master arrives at Schloss Kronberg. Those Dutch really got around! And Hendrick Vroom was there to depict it.

Dutch ships, come to trade at a port in the East Indies, 1614. As imagined by Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom, who hadn't been there but today is his day.