John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra
by Jacob Jordaens who was born in #Antwerp #otd 1593
(Met Museum)

Anthony Van Dyck, Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio c. 1622-23 (Palazzo Pitti)
In the words of one critic: "one of Van Dyck's absolute achievements in the field of portraiture - is a piece of theatrical display on the painter's part".
It is just wonderful.

19 May 1529: Eustache Chapuys given his credentials as Charles V's ambassador to Henry VIII #otd His letters are a key source for understanding of Henry’s reign & the break with #Rome

19 May 804: d. Alcuin, scholar, poet from #York who was reputed the most learned person of his time #otd

18 May 1554: William Thomas #translator is hanged, drawn, quartered at Tyburn for encompassing the death of Mary I of #England (BM) He’d already botched suicide by stabbing himself in the Tower of #London on 25 Feb.

Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels
c 1490-1495 by Colyn de Coter (Art Institute Chicago)

15 May 1556: John Knox appears in #Edinburgh #otd surrounded by so many supporters that the ecclesiastical authorities quietly dropped various processes against him (BM)

Order of the Chevaliers Marching at Fontainebleau #otd on 14 May 1633 (Met Museum)
Abraham Bosse, 1634

Wenceslaus Hollar, Elephant, monkey & flowers (University of Toronto)

Lotus, c. 1600 - 1625 from Zhengyen Hu [Ten Bamboos Studio] #China (Rijksmuseum)