John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

A couple - and their #dog - stroll by moonlight, painted by Gesina ter Borch c. 1654-59

(Rijksmuseum)

19 Jan 1644: #Scots forces invade #England under the command of Alexander Leslie, Earl of #Leven #otd (NPG)

17 Jan 1517: b. Henry Grey, Duke of #Suffolk #otd - father of Lady Jane Grey, the 'Nine Days Queen' (BM/NPG)

6 Jan 1569: Agnes Bowker allegedly gives #birth to a #cat #otd at Market Harborough, Leicestershire (This BM image is the closest that I could get - which may be just as well!)