John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Sultan Süleyman I the Great, Melchior Lorck, 1559.

(Rijksmuseum)

For #InternationalDogDay two 1650s dogs, each as modish as their master from the inimitable Gesina Ter Borch

(Rijksmuseum)

26 Aug 1596 ns: b. Frederick V #otd future husband of Elizabeth Stewart of #Scotland & future King of #Bohemia

25 Aug 1270: d. St Louis IX King of #France - an archetypical royal saint #otd (A fantastic El Greco imagining of him here)

24 Aug 1680: d. Ferdinand Bol #artist at #Amsterdam #otd
Godfrey Kneller, later influential court painter in England, was his pupil

Red cabbage (Brassica oleracea convar. capitata var. rubra), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610.

(Rijksmuseum)

24 Aug 1648: Katherine 'Orinda' Fowler #writer & #translator m. Col James Philips #London #otd (BM)

The Crypt of a Church with Two Men (soldiers?) Sleeping, possibly 1625
Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger

(The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

Demolition of the Citadel of Antwerp, 23 Aug 1577

(Rijksmuseum)

(Martin Van Cleve the Elder, Adam Williams Fine Art, NY)

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

23 Aug: feast of Rose of #Lima 3rd Order of St. Dominic - the first canonised saint born in the Americas (BM) #nuntastic She died 15 Aug 1617