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11 Oct 1531: Huldrych Zwingli #Swiss reformer & theologian killed in the Battle of Kappel #otd (BM)
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10 Oct 1599: b. Samuel Clarke, cleric, ejected minister & biographer #otd (BM)
Laborious quill indeed - we all know how that feels!
Destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by Titus,
by Nicolas Poussin, 1635.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Originally painted for Cardinal Francesco Barberini.
Cardinal Roberto Ubaldini, 1581-1635, Papal Legate to Bologna
by Guido Reni, 1627
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
6 Oct 1625: Venetia Stanley gives birth to Kenelm Digby jnr while Kenelm Digby snr is voyaging #otd (BM/NPG)
Patten styles, the lower English ones (1640) and the higher Turkish version (1644) both by Wenceslaus Hollar
(British Museum)
Interior of a church, with a family in the foreground
Hendrik van Steenwyck II, c. 1640