John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

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)