Wonderer's History Podcast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺さんのイラストまとめ

‘Pan’ 1899 (Low. R)

The Judgement of Paris, 1893 (Up. R)

Paintings by Russian painter Mikhail Vrubel (Left early 1900's), who passed away #Onthisday 1910 in St. Petersburg. #History #art #OTD

most important & promising generals, Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemour, who died at the age of only 22. Despite this victory, the #French could not secure Northern Italy.

The Death of Gaston de Foix at Ravenna by the 19th century Dutch-French painter Ary Scheffer

#History #OTD

also an important win at Obertyn in 1531 against Moldavia. In 1524 he formed a short lived alliance with Francis I of France until 1526. A notable patron of arts & humanities, Sigismund was integral to the Polish Renaissance.

Painting by J. Matejko Sigismund granting noble 2/3

Beautiful map of the Venice now at its 1600th anniversary (founded #OTD 421) by Ottoman Cartographer, geographer & admiral Piri Reis

#History #Venetian #Venice

Close one, but the Medici win. Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany (rule between 1569 – 1574) is well pleased.

#History #poll

Greuceanu is one of the oldest tales of written Romanian folklore, the protagonist having to set the sun and moon free from Zmei (archetypical devil/dragon like villains). #FolkloreThursday

Old stamp of Greuceanu (from the collection of folk tales compiled by Petre Ispirescu)

#OTD 1457 Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, important Italian historian and author of some of the first accounts of explorations in Central & South America was born in Arona. De Orbe Novo (On the New World, 1530) is considered one of his most important writings. #History #Geography

Icarus (1588) from the series The four disgracers (Low. R)

Horatius Cocles, from The Roman Heroes, 1586 (Up. R)

By German-born Dutch printmaker & early Baroque painter Hendrick Goltzius (self portrait on the left & passed away #OnThisDay 1617)

#History #art #OTD

#OnThisDay 1585 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, important Spanish commander in the Eighty & Thirty Years' Wars, was born in Cabra. He was part of the Spanish Palatinate Campaign along with Spinola & Tilly. #History #OTD

#OTD 1355 Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, one of the most important military figures and leaders in medieval Serbian #History, founder of the Serbian Empire and author of a compilation of several legal systems known as Dušan's Code (low.R), passed away.

1355 map of the Balkans (Up. R)