John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

22 May 1650: b. Richard Brakenburgh or Brakenburg artist #otd
Here's his 'Celebration of a Birth', 1682.

(Dulwich Picture Gallery/Google Art Project)

Fireworks design apparatus with a dragon lying on its back, on top of which are a sphere and Apollo.

Giovanni Burnacini, 1625-1655.

Gloriously over the top.

(British Museum)

Translation of the bodies of Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius, 2nd century Milanese martyrs.
School of Philippe de Champaigne, 1661.

This was the translation by St Ambrose, witnessed by Augustine of Hippo before he became Christian.

(Musée du Louvre)

21 May 1618: Dean & Chapter of #Norwich elect John Overall as Bishop #otd
Overall had questioned Double Predestination at the Hampton Court conference, worked on the Authorised Version & tried - unsuccessfully - to get a gallows recantation from the Jesuit Henry Garnet (BM)

Iconoclasm in a Church by Dirck van Delen, 1630 (Rijksmuseum) - a friar (a Capuchin given the hood shape?) hides behind a pillar and the iconoclasts pile up images for smashing and probably burning.

Images of image-destruction.

20 May 1521: Ignatius Loyola is wounded #otd at the Battle of #Pamplona, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to the foundation of the Society of Jesus or #Jesuit order (1st image shows him helping St. Patrick to keep Ireland faithful, from @ucdarchives
/ BM)

17 May 1551: Mary Dudley & Henry Sidney (NPG) make vows publicly at Ely House #London #otd This following their private marriage at Esher in February

"Portrait of a girl, said to be Anne of Austria", dated #otd 16 May 1615.
She would have been 15 at this point if this is her.

Daniel Dumonstier

(British Museum)

The figure of Sleep,
Jacques de Gheyn III, c. 1618

(British Museum)

12 May 1562: Ecclesiastical High Commission declares the clandestine marriage of Katherine Grey & Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford null #otd. She remained imprisoned till her death in 1568 due to her claims to the throne (Sotheby's)