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The Temptation of St Anthony, by Martin Schongauer, 1470 – https://t.co/1bQ41XqScb

The engraving inspired many artists after Schongauer including Michelangelo who copied it in his earliest known painting, completed when he was just 12 or 13 years old.

Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI #otd #onthisday

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", an they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://t.co/PUbDBD2LWf

Cotton-top tamarin, as depicted by Jacques de Sève for Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1754).

See lots more of the wonderful illustrations from the book in our brand new post: https://t.co/Ch2rsgWJOa

“Animal Magnetism”, illustration from A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences (1794) by Ebenezer Sibley.

Featured in our essay on Benjamin Franklin and Franz Mesmer: https://t.co/NGGStkz4PW

Pages from the 16th-century Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel. More here: https://t.co/mHEGK9J0tx

And prints here: https://t.co/S8g0VHwokO

New report out today officially downgrades #GreatBarrierReef's outlook from "poor" to "very poor" due to #climatechange. Here's a look, from 1893 and one of the first book's dedicated to the Reef, at the incredible ecosystem dying before our eyes: https://t.co/RwWW62A9h2

More than 100 digitally enhanced, hi-res, and totally free to re-use floral images from Edwards's Botanical Register (1829–1847) — courtesy of @byrawpixel: https://t.co/Z6hBKg2WFn

Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td #OTD

"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD