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9 July 1572: The Gorkum Massacre - hanging of 19 #Dutch Catholic clerics, predominantly #Franciscans in the town of Brielle / Den Briel by Calvinists #otd These included Willehad of #Denmark who'd fled the closure of the religious houses in that country #badmove (Rijksmuseum)
8 July 1598: Robert Fludd #otd future doctor, #occult writer, #cabbalist graduates MA from St. John's College #Oxford #otd (BM)
Dragon lilyr, or dragonwort [Dracunculus vulgari], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid
c. 1650–51
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
(Met Museum)
White Narcissus [Narcissus], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
7 July: feast of St. Willibald of #Wessex, bishop of Eichstatt #Germany d.786/7 #otd (BM)
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Sunflower [Helianthus annuus], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610.
He has made the seeds reminiscent of a myriad of tiny stars.