John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Ustad Mansur, active c. 1600-20.
A chameleon 1612

(Royal Collection, HM EII)

Ustad Mansur was the leading animal painter at the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (reg.1605-27), who bestowed upon him the honorific Nadir al-Asr, ‘Wonder of the Age’.

As I've just been reading about Jansenism again (and for over 30 years), here's "Le Janssenisme foudroyé", 1653, celebrating Innocent X's 'Cum Occasione'.

Note the foregrounded female adherents being greeted by Calvin himself.

(British Museum)

Concert of Birds, 1629-1632 by Frans Snyders
(Museo del Prado)

They even brought their score along.

27-28 Oct 1467: in the night, b. Desiderius Erasmus #Rotterdam humanist, reformer, a man both reviled & beloved #otd (BM)

Busts of Sappho & Cleopatra, by Anna Maria Vaiani, Florentine engaraver, made c. 1636 - 1647 (Rijksmuseum)
and a portrait of her by Claude Mellan (Met Museum)

All you want to know about coveyancing is to be found here.

The top centre image is that of Edward Coke who became Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench #otd 25 Oct 1613.

(British Museum)

'Betwixt a subtile Priest & cursed Wife / I'm plagu'd for my transgression / The two great Follyes of my Life / Is Marriage & Confession.'

c. 1681-1688

As we put in exam questions: 'discuss'.

(British Museum)

25 Oct 1586: The trial of Mary Queen of #Scots is moved to #Westminster Palace from Fotheringhay #otd

View of the Pantheon #Rome with a market in the foreground
Lievin Cruyl, 1697

(British Museum)

Christ Healing the Blind
c. 1570
by El Greco or Domenikos Theotokopoulos

He painted this masterpiece of dramatic storytelling either in Venice or in Rome, where he worked after leaving Crete in 1567 and before moving to Spain in 1576

(Met Museum)