John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

7 Feb 1550: The conclave of Cardinals elect Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte as Pope #otd He takes the name Julius - Julius III.
He received Mary I's realms back into the Roman obedience. He d. 1555.

College of Animals, Cornelius Saftleven, 1655

A satire on contemporary academic life.

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

(Dallas Museum of Art)

Self-portrait of Samuel van Hoogstraten with long hair, aged 50, 1678

(British Museum)

So this is a mid-16th century design for a #snail-shaped pitcher by Virgil Solis (BM) The question is, would you drink or otherwise use water poured from it?

Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel who died #otd 5 Feb 1679

by Phillips Koninck

Vondel wrote his last play 'Noah' when over eighty years old.

(V& A Museum, Pen and brown ink, 17th century)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
c. 1515

Correggio aka Antonio Allegri

Commissioned for a church in the painter’s hometown of Correggio, the four saints were chosen by the patron, Melchiore Fassi.

"Myley Arsheid Zeriff, Prince of Taffeleta Emperour of Morocco and Fezz"
By Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

That is, Al-Rashid Ben Ali Al-Charif, Sultan of Morocco, 1666 to 1672.

(Met Museum)

3 Feb 1596: Robert Fludd doctor, #occult writer & #cabbalist takes the BA degree at St. John's #Oxford #otd (BM)

3 Feb 1663: John Donne, son of John Donne, Dean of St Paul's London & his father's literary executor is buried in St Paul’s Church Covent Garden #otd

(eebo/ Met Museum)

17th Century recycling at its very best.

Title page of Hobbes, 1657, then re-purposed to be the title page of Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters, also 1657.

Two classic works, one cover design...

(British Museum)