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

#OTD 1467 Battle of Baia was won by Stephan the Great's Moldavian army against the Hungarian forces of Matthias Corvinus, despite a substantial numerical inferiority & the Hungarians having ~400 cannon). It was the last Hungarian attempt to conquer the Moldavian Kingdom. #History

#OTD 1520 Martin Luther burned a copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine which condemned & threatened him with excommunication. Luther would state:

"Since they have burned my books, I burn theirs. The canon law was included because it makes the pope a god on earth.

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Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, ca. 1728 (left) by #French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin who passed away #Onthisday 1779 ( Self-portrait, 1771, on the right)

#History #OTD #art

of Saint George in 1500, part of the second Ottoman-Venetian War (1499-1503). His impressive military record earned him the nickname of El Gran Capitán. #OTD #History #Spanish

El Gran Capitán battling the Moors at the Siege of Montefrío by José de Madrazo, 1838

#OTD 1640 João IV/John IV (the Restorer) becomes King of Portugal thus ending the Iberian Union between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal under the Spanish Crown which started in 1580 under Philip II. #History #earlymodern

Painting by Veloso Salgado, Military Museum, Lisbon

#OTD 1572 John Knox, Scottish minister, theologian, writer and leader of the #Scottish Reformation, died in #Edinburgh, his final resting place being in St. Giles' churchyard.

In his will, Knox said: "None have I corrupted, none have I defrauded; merchandise have I not made"

#OTD 1572 Agnolo di Cosimo, Florentine Mannerist #painter known as Bronzino, passed away in Florence.

Portrait of Stefano Colonna, 1546 Up. R

Portrait Cosimo I de' Medici in armour, c. 1545 Low R

Portrait of Laura Battiferri, Italian Renaissance poet- Left

#History #art

ended with a Venetian defeat mainly because of the 1499 defeat at Zonchio. The Venetian strongholds of Modon & Coron were given to the Ottomans while Venice received Cephalonia and Ithaca. This would precede two more wars lost against the Ottomans (1537-1540) and (1570-1573) 2/

Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633 (L), by #Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (self-portrait of himself as Saint Luke- [R]), renowned for his use of chiaroscuro, was born/baptized #OnThisDay 1598 in Fuente de Cantos. #History #art #OTD

the Battle of Ravenna, a somewhat pyrrhic victory for Franco-Ferrarese forces because of the death of Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours and the arrival in Lombardy of Swiss mercenaries hired by Pope Julius II and Imperial troops under Emperor Maximilian I. This in turn caused 4/