Dr. Peter Paul Rubensさんのイラストまとめ

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 was his day.

Super-early flower still life painted in 1603 by Roelant Savery, before everybody else was doing flowers. Gorgeous! Also A+ lizards & bugs. All the good stuff!

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

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!

2/2 Winslow Homer visits England: Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth, 1881. They had their own stories. And Homer (Winslow) was born on this day in 1836.

The fierce power of a Northeaster, captured in 1895 by Winslow Homer. It's his day.

2/2 Born on this day in 1500, Charles V, emperor of everywhere and an incredible traveler. Here, my copy of his portrait by Titian, done after he had (wisely) grown a beard.

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

2/2 Women of Alexandria gathered to hear the preaching of Saint Mark. By Gentile Bellini, 1505. Had never been to Egypt, but had been to Constantinople, and had an excellent imagination!

Dogs. Peacocks. Nursing mother. Elegant conversation. A+ palace and garden. And an empty chair for you to sit and enjoy it all. By Paul Vredeman de Vries, son of Hans (whose day is today), w/ figures by Jan Brueghel.