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Jacob Jordaens, Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers, and Sisters c. 1615..... and some celestial beings into the bargain.
(The Hermitage Museum)
Christ in the Wine Press, 16thC, Netherlandish,
some vividly realised Eucharistic theology.
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
"Torcular calcavi solus, et de gentibus non est vir mecum"
"I have trodden the winepress alone, & of the Gentiles there is not a man with me"
5 Aug 1552: John Bale #writer ex-Carmelite & polemical #Protestant reformer meets Edward VI at #Southampton #otd & is promised the diocese of #Ossory in #Ireland (Bm/eebo)
5 Aug 642: St Oswald king of #Northumbria dies in battle against Penda of #Mercia #otd (Robin Widdison)
4 Aug 1719: Meinhard Schomberg, Duke of Leinster and 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Williamite commander who crucially attacked across the Boyne river on the day of the battle, buried #otd in the Duke of Ormond's vault in Henry VII Chapel #Westminster (National Trust images)
4 Aug 1688: James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond buried at #Westminster Abbey #otd Politician, survivor, royalist
David Teniers the Younger, Kitchen Interior, 1644
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)
Painted on copper.
The woman peeling apples is Teniers’ wife Anna Brueghel with their son David.
The swan pie has symbols of love so the painting may be a tribute to Anna.