John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

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)