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3 Sept 1658: 3pm, Whitehall, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of #England,#Scotland & #Ireland dies #otd (BM)
Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Books and a Violin, 1628.
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)
Literate viewers knew the titles of the books on this table were concerned with the idea of fate.
31 Aug 1581: 1st (of four) debates between St. Edmund Campion & #Protestant divines in the Tower of #London #otd
Holy women by Francisco de Zurbaran d. #otd 27 Aug 1664.
St Elisabeth of Portugal, c.1635 &
Immaculate Conception,1628-30 (Museo del Prado)
St Margaret of Antioch, 1631 (National Gallery, London)
Virgin Mary as a girl living in the Temple, Jerusalem
c. 1632–33 (Met Museum)
For #InternationalDogDay two 1650s dogs, each as modish as their master from the inimitable Gesina Ter Borch (Rijksmuseum)
The Woman with the Pear, 1651 by Ferdinand Bol who died #otd 24 Aug 1680
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
The Feast in the House of Simon
1608/14
El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
(Art Institute Chicago)
24 Aug 1648: Katherine 'Orinda' Fowler #writer & #translator m. Col James Philips #London #otd (BM)
24 Aug 1680: d. Ferdinand Bol #artist at #Amsterdam #otd Godfrey Kneller, influential court painter, was his pupil