John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

College of Animals, Cornelis Saftleven, 1655
The artist died #otd 1 June 1681.

A satire on contemporary academic life.

Among other things, Amadis of Gaul appears to be on the reading list.

(Dallas Museum of Art)

31 May 1555: John Whitgift, future Archbishop of Canterbury is elected a Fellow of Peterhouse Cambridge #otd

(NPG)

Battalia the stone-eater,
Wenceslaus Hollar.

The pebbles and red wine diet.

(University of Toronto)

Heart's Ease Violet [Viola tricolor] with a dragonfly, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515

Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

31 May 1524: d. St Camilla Battista da Varano #otd at Camerino, Macerata, Poor Clare abbess & mystic, extensive writer #otd
Canonized 2010

Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon
Wallerant Vaillant who was born in Lille #otd 30 May 1623.

(Met Museum)

Maria van Oosterwijck, 1630-93, flower painter by Wallerant Vaillant, 1671 (Rijksmuseum)

Vaillant was born #otd 30 May 1623. Died 28 Aug 1677.

26 May: feast of Pope St Eleutherius #otd d. 189 - often associated with the supposed letter of King Lucius ‘of the Britons’

(British Museum)

Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)

26 May 1306: Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, knighted