John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

2 Feb 1550: d. Sir Francis Bryan, Henry VIII's 'Vicar of Hell' at Clonmel Co. Tipperary (BM)

Daffodils & a red admiral butterfly, c. 1575
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1538-1588

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

iew of George Heriot's 'Hospital' #Edinburgh with entrance Illustration to Frederick de Witt's 'Theatrum praecipuarum totius Europae'. c. 1690

(British Museum)

An Orphanotrophium.

#London
Bird's-eye view of the west end of Cheapside, branching, left, into the Shambles (& Paternoster Row, with St. Michael's-in-the-Querne dividing them. At the east end of the Church, the Little Conduit, surrounded by water-jugs.
Ralph Treswell, 1585.

(British Museum)

Holy Family, 1560s/70s
Possibly by Marcello Venusti, b. 1512, d. 15 Oct 1579

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)