John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, after Albrecht Dürer, 1596 - 1610.

(Rijksmuseum)

12 May 1682: d. Sir Thomas Bludworth #otd who was Mayor of #London during the Great Fire of 1666.

He said as it started up - ‘A woman could piss it out’

(Museum of London)

Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo
Ambrogio Giovanni Figino
1563-1608

(British Museum)

Gluttony from a set of The Seven Deadly Sins
c. 1550-1560 by Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Pilgrims for the Holy Year 1575, Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, in or after 1575 (Rijksmuseum)
The 'new' St Peter's rises up behind the 'old' here.
#Rome

El Greco, or Domenikos Theotokopoulos
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

View of Olinda, Brazil, Frans Jansz. Post, 1662 (Rijksmuseum)

Olinda Cathedral was severely damaged when the Dutch conquered the region from the Portuguese in the 1630s.

5 May 1549: Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius theologians are presented to Edward VI #otd In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in #Cambridge & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)

@DrStevenMFoster

A couple in fancy dress addressed by a lute player wearing a mask.
After Jacques de Gheyn II (or possibly Zacharias Dolendo)
c. 1595-1596.
(British Museum)

4 May 1535: William Exmew #Carthusian is pressed by Thomas Cromwell's agent Thomas Bedyll #otd to acknowledge the King's Supremacy just as three #Carthusian priors were going to their deaths.

Exmew was hanged with two of his confrères on 19 June.

(Museo Del Prado)