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Female and Male Figurines
1400–1533
Inca
Likely deposited as part of an Inca offering to a huaca (a Quechua and Aymara language term for a sacred entity). These huacas range from a rock to a river to a mountain.
(Met Museum)
Loose peppercorns, from the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship 'Witte Leeuw', 1613
and
Pepperplant [Capsicum annuum], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
A German engraving of Charles I & Henrietta Maria, c. 1640 -1649.
Andreas Kohl
(British Museum)
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
ca. 1173–80
(Met Museum)
This reliquary is dated to the years immediately following Thomas's canonization in 1173, making it one of the earliest objects commemorating his sainthood.
22 June 1665: A hero's funeral at #Westminster Abbey #otd for Charles Berkeley Earl of #Falmouth who had been killed at the Battle of Lowestoft
Portrait of the Doctor Carlo Fontana.
By
Bartolomeo Passarotti, c. 1570-1575.
(Collection: MSK Gent / https://t.co/KMTrIc9q3m /Photographer
Hugo Maertens)
22 June 1664: d. Katharine Philips, writer, translator, known as the 'matchless Orinda' #otd (BM/Folgers)
21 June 1652: d. Inigo Jones exquisite architect, possibly at @SomersetHouse
#otd