John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

2 June 1650: Charles II sails for #Scotland #otd paving way for his 1651 coronation at Scone on the 1 January following (BM)

2 June: feast St. Elmo (Erasmus), 4thC, note his entrails wrapped around a windlass #otd (BM)

31 May 1568: Robert Persons, future #Jesuit & leader of English #Catholic mission, graduates BA at Balliol #Oxford #otd (BM)

31 May 1524: d. St Camilla Battista da Varano #otd at Camerino, Macerata, Poor Clare abbess & mystic, extensive writer #otd Canonized 2010

29 May 1634: Sir William Brereton visits Elizabeth Stuart Queen of Bohemia at the Hague. They have a discussion about the Lancashire witch trial among other things. Brereton also bought a portrait of Elizabeth as a souvenir (National Gallery London)

The Fruit Vendors,
by Jerónimo Jacinto Espinosa,
c. 1650. (Museo Nacional del Prado)
A poor student is handing over some coins to a fruit-seller as he makes a knot in the handkerchief, clinched in his teeth, to put away the change.

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