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26 May 1583: Baptism of Susanna, the daughter of William #Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway #otd (BM)

Today is Ascension Thursday, so here is:
The Ascension
By Juan de Flandes, c. 1514-1519
(Museo Nacional del Prado)

Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnauld (1593-1671) & Sr Catherine de Ste Suzanne Champaigne (1636-1686), daughter of the artist, Philippe de Champaigne who was born #otd 26 May 1602.
The image is one of the most famous of the influential Port-Royal des Champs convent

(Musée du Louvre)

26 May 735: d. Bede, writer, historian, monk at Jarrow on Ascension day #otd (a 16thC French view of him, BM)

Dr. Faust in his Study, Adriaen Matham, 1610-1660
(Rijksmuseum)

This 16th century painting by an unidentified artist shows Henry VIII and his fleet setting sail from Dover to Calais on 31 May 1520 on the way to meet Francis I at The Field of Cloth of Gold.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

14 May 1494: b. Jacopi Carucci, artist, known as Pontormo #otd

Pontormo died on 2 Jan 1557.

Fresco, Scene for Hospital Life. C. 1514.

(Accademia, Florence)

Street scene attributed to Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, c. 1629.

(British Museum)

23 May 1679: the first volume of Gilbert Burnet's very influential History of the Reformation of the Church of #England is licensed and published #otd (BM)

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict
c. 1493–96
Luca Signorelli

(Met Museum)