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

Illustration of Orion, legendary Greek hunter who was stung by a scorpion, died & was placed among the stars by the gods (along with the Scorpion who was slain at a later point leaving the gods to place them at opposite ends of the sky).

#FolkloreThursday

Also Dante and Beatrice speaking to Piccarda and Constance (fresco also by Philipp Veit), Canto III of Paradiso

Painting by Frederik Christian Lund, illustrating the 1659 Battle of Copenhagen (part of the Second Northern War) fought #OnThisday 1659 during the siege of Copenhagen by Swedish forces. #OTD #History

The Quack Doctor, 1652, painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerrit Dou (self-portrait on the left) who passed away #OnThisDay 1675.

#art #history

#OTD 1514 Daniele Barbaro, influential #Venetian architect and scholar who translated & wrote extensive commentaries on the works of Vitruvius, was born in Venice.

Portrait by Titian & cover of La Pratica Della Perspettiva (1568) 1/

#History #Italian

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”

A #quote from Aesop's Fables (on the left depicted in F. Barlow's 1687 ed.), initially a cornerstone of the oral tradition of #storytelling with deep roots in ancient Greek #folklore. #FolkloreThursday

#OTD 1617 Fausto Veranzio, bishop from Šibenik, chancellor for Hungary and Transylvania at the court of King Rudolf II & author of Machinae Novae (published in Venice 1615) passed away in Venice. #History #OnThisDay

Next 3 episodes: Alvise I Mocenigo & Sebastiano Veniero, Nicolò da Ponte. Afterwards there will be a surprise cameo episode. #History #podcast

Painting of Vulcan/ Hephaestus presenting the Arms of Achilles to Thetis by Peter Paul Rubens. Hephaestus was the Greek god of blacksmiths, metallurgy, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors & an important symbol of Olympian labour & work. #FolkloreThursday

The Thunderstorm (1641) (left)

An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry (1643)

By Dutch Painter Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, born #OnThisDay in Leiden. #OTD #art #history