John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Johannes Elison was the minister of the Dutch Stranger Church in Norwich.

Also his wife, Maria Bockenolle, also Dutch, dressed in English style.

Rembrandt, 1634.

The lifesize paintings were commissioned by their son, an Amsterdam merchant.

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Portrait de Johannes Cingisus
1e tiers du XVIe siècle
Anonyme
Allemagne Centre, École de.

(Musée du Louvre)

30 Aug 1640: The #Scots army occupies #Newcastle upon Tyne #otd (BM)

A doggy detail from Lavinia Fontana’s huge canvas c. 1600 of the Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon in the National Gallery of Ireland.

29 Aug : Feast of the beheading of John the Baptist #otd Salome waits to collect .. (British Museum)

28 Aug 1612: b. Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn in Bergen op Zoom, future professor at the University of Leiden.

He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and postulated the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'.

28 Aug 430: d. St Augustine of Hippo doctor of the church & thinker of incalculable influence #otd (Met Museum)

Woman Painting a Portrait,
by Elisabetta Sirani, b. 1638, d. #otd 28 Aug 1665.

(The Hermitage Museum)

28 Aug 1647: James Butler, Earl of Ormond leaves #Ireland #otd for royalist exile on the continent (NPG) Later he would become a very infuential adviser to the exiled Charles II.

27 Aug 1487: Gerard Horenbout, who later worked briefly for Henry VIII, becomes a master painter at #Ghent #otd