John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

26 May 735: d. Bede, writer, historian, monk at Jarrow on Ascension day #otd (a 16thC French view of him, BM)

23 May 1679: the first volume of Gilbert Burnet's very influential History of the Reformation of the Church of #England is licensed and published #otd (BM)

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict
c. 1493–96
Luca Signorelli

(Met Museum)

Translation of the bodies of Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius, 2nd century Milanese martyrs.
School of Philippe de Champaigne, 1661.

This was the translation by St Ambrose, witness by Augustine of Hippo before he became Christian.

(Musée du Louvre)

20 May 1501: d. Bl. Columba of Rieti, Third Order of St. Dominic & mystic. Renowned for spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, beatified 1625. #nuntastic

The figure of Sleep,
Jacques de Gheyn III, c. 1618

(British Museum)

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

Lotus, c. 1600 - 1625 from Zhengyen Hu [Ten Bamboos Studio] #China

(Rijksmuseum)

Wenceslaus Hollar, Elephant, monkey & flowers (University of Toronto)

Tableau of the Glorification of Agriculture, done for the entrance of Archduke Albert & Archduchess Isabella to #Antwerp in 1599. Jupiter surrounded by personifications of agriculture. At top Abundance feeds a multitude of children. A little dog does what it has to (Rijksmuseum)