John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

31 Oct 1666: Wenceslaus Hollar petitions Charles II - successfully - #otd for 'the Honor & Tittle of your Majestie's Scenographer or Designer of Prospects' (BM)

What growing child doesn't want to be a scenographer?

Horse Standing on a Mound, 1655.
By Cornelis Saftleven

(The Cleveland Museum of Art)

29 Oct 1591: Pro-#Spanish Cardinal Facchinetti elected Innocent IX #otd His papacy is among the shortest - as he died on 30 Dec (Bede753c/Utente)

28 Oct 1623: Kenelm Digby is knighted #otd and becomes a gentleman of the privy chamber to Prince Charles (NPG)

Johannes Vermeer,
Woman writing a letter with her maid, 1670.

(National Gallery of Ireland)

Currently working on something that involves thinking about the influence of this account from St Luke:
The Road to Emmaus
Altobello Melone. c. 1516 - 1517.
(The National Gallery, London)

The Threatened Swan, Jan Asselijn, c. 1650.

The swan defends its nest against a dog (on left). Later treated as an allegory of Johan de Witt’s defence of his country. De Witt was assassinated in 1672.

(Rijksmusem)

28 Oct 1510: b. St Francis Borgia in the Duchy of Gandia #Spain #otd

Widower & father of eight, he became 3rd General of the #Jesuits in 1565 having earlier renounced all his titles (BM)

15 Nov 1661, a woman carves into a tree. It's probably the artist Gesina Ter Borch herself who scratches her motto "Virtue Makes Beauty" into the bark, with a reference to her sweetheart, Henrik Jordis.

She's left her gloves, fan & shawl nearby.

(Rijksmuseum)

Benvenuto di Pietro Tisi, called Garofalo, b. 1476 - d. 1559
The Holy Family
Finished on 2 May 1533

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)