John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

3 Aug 1579: William Allen, future cardinal, sends 21 priests off on the mission to England #otd One of these, St Alexander Briant SJ, was martyred alongside St Edmund Campion SJ in 1581.

(BM)

A performing goat with spectators

A single-page painting on an album folio, Janí son of Bahram, or 'Farangi Saz' [that is a painter in the European style], Isfahan, 1684-85. (British Museum)

The Israelites drinking the miraculous Water,
Jacopo Bassano, c. 1566-68

(Museo Nacional del Prado)

The Virgin Mary learns to read, 17thC French

(BM Pp,5.121)

3 Aug 1553: Mary I makes a triumphant entry into #London #otd (BM)

2 Aug 1482: Margaret of #Anjou, widow of Henry VI makes her brief will #otd. She died on 25 Aug & was buried at #Angers cathedral

Heinrich Aldegrever,
Self-portrait, 1530, aged 28
Self-portrait, 1537, aged 35

(Musée du Louvre)

Mary Magdalene, Jan van Scorel, c. 1530 She can be identified by her jar of ointment, which she used to anoint Jesus’s feet. Van Scorel painted her as a luxuriously dressed courtesan (Rijksmuseum)

Van Scorel was born #otd 1 Aug 1495. He d. 6 Dec 1562.

Henri IV of France signing the ratification of his abjuration of Protestantism before Alessandro de Medici, the Pope’s Legate & future Leo XI. This happened #otd 1 Aug 1596.

The image was made in 1610 which was the year Henri was assasinated.

#WorthAMass

(British Museum)

David Teniers the Younger, Kitchen Interior, 1644
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)
Painted on copper.

The woman peeling apples is Teniers’ wife Anna Brueghel with their son David.
The swan pie has symbols of love so the painting may be a tribute to Anna.