John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel (17 Nov 1587 – 5 Feb 1679) in old age.
by Phillips Koninck (5 Nov 1619 – 4 Oct 1688)

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

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

Country woman, Gesina ter Borch, 1655

(Rijksmuseum)

The Birth of the Dauphin (future Louis XIII) at Fontainebleau, 27 Sept 1601

Peter Paul Rubens.

(Musée du Louvre)

Christ and the Adulteress
ca. 1545–50

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Cranach died #otd 25 Jan 1586

(Met Museum)

The Conversion of St. Paul,
1509, Lucas van Leyden (Met Museum)

Here, on the road to Damascus, Paul is dazzle-blinded by God, very discreetly tucked into the top-left of the overall image.

Today, 25 Jan is the feast of the Conversion of Paul.

Tamerlane using a captive king as a mounting block for his #horse (late 16thC, BM)

That's doing it despot style.

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation
c. 1595/1600

By El Greco - Domenikos Theotokopoulos

(Art Institute Chicago)

Two Studies of a Woman Reading
1635–40

Rembrandt van Rijn

(Met Museum)

Study of St Jerome - Dürer - finally solves the conundrum of how you might store your cardinal’s hat or galero (BM)

23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)