John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

18 Aug 1276: d. Adrian V
18 Aug 1503: d. Alexander VI
18 Aug 1559: d. Paul IV

A bad date for #Popes !

Folding Screen with Dutch ships, c. 1685 - c. 1700
Southern #China

Depicts the arrival of Dutch ships, and a hunting scene with Dutchmen. It all suggests that the depictions here catered to Chinese curiosity about the Europeans.

(Rijksmuseum)

16 Aug: feast of St. Roch, patron of plague victims, #dogs &c #otd (BM) Very popular in middle ages & early modern period for good reason. And being more remembered these days too

Christ Healing the Blind
ca. 1570
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

El Greco painted this either in Venice or in Rome, where he worked after leaving Crete in 1567 and before moving to Spain in 1576.

(Met Museum)

15 Aug 1651: At #Dublin, John Rogers Fifth Monarchist, proposes #otd that ministers from New England be sent to #Ireland

(University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection)

15 Aug 1552: John Bale ex-Carmelite #writer & polemical reformer meets Edward VI at #Southampton #otd & is promised the diocese of #Ossory in #Ireland (Bm/eebo)

Johannesburg Bogerman, President of the Synod of Dort.

By Pieter Feddes van Harlingen, made 1620.

(British Museum)

Bogerman, who had been a skilled president of this extremely important Calvinist synod, died on 11 Sept 1637.

‘The evening of the wedding’

Pieter Baltens, c. 1540-1598.

One thing for which 16th century church courts readily granted annulments was for proven lack of consent.

(British Museum)

White lily (Lilium candidum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

On the feast #otd 15 Aug, the Assumption of Mary, with Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth of Hungary, Anthony of Padua (born #otd 1195 in #Lisbon) and St Catherine of Alexandria.

Unknown artist, Italian, 16th century

(Musée du Louvre)