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

#OTD 1643 Battle of Rocroi, part of the Thirty Years' War & important moment in 17th century European #History, ends with a French victory against the Spanish, which was a also a notable defeat for what was deemed as an infallible Spanish Tercio military system. #OnThisDay

Vulcan's Forge by Flemish Painter and Engraver Cornelis Schut, born #onthisday 1597 in Antwerp.
#History #art #Baroque #paintings #OTD

@FrenchHist Would probably be the Loading the remains of Napoleon onto Belle Poule, 15 October 1840.

Painting by Eugène Isabey

#OTD 1521 Battle of Villalar ended with a decisive royalist victory during the Revolt of the Comuneros. Most of the leaders of the rebellion including Juan de Padilla, Francisco Maldonado & Juan Bravo were executed afterwards. #History #Spanish #OnThisDay

‘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

Republic 1503-1538. It was the first proper bit I've done on the decline of the Venetian Republic in the 16th century, looking at the impact & influence the Emperor & Papacy had in the near collapse before & after Agnadello stretching all the way to the 1538 battle of Preveza 2/

Depictions of sins in Dante's Inferno:

3rd Circle of Gluttony, illustrated by Stradanus (L)

4th Circle of Greed, by Doré (Up. R)

5th Circle of Wrath, by Stradanus (Low.R)

#FolkloreThursday