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Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish
Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1646.
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
Marigold [Calendula Arvensis], with a blue butterfly, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
29 Apr 1521: Martin Bucer theologian released from his #Dominican vows #otd becoming a secular priest.
He later had a career in #Cambridge - where he was buried in 1551, before being exhumed & burnt under Mary I
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The Ford
Jan Siberechts, 1660s
(KMSKA/Photographer
Hugo Maertens/artinflanders.be)
A late 15th century #English alabaster statue of the Blessed Virgin and Child (British Museum)
Portrait of (Christophle le More?) by Jan Jansz Mostaert, c. 1525 - c. 1530.
Christophle le More was employed at the court of Emperor Charles V in Brussels as an archer bodyguard. The Maria insignia on the cap recalls a pilgrimage to Halle in Brabant (Rijksmuseum)
27 Apr 1521: d. Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator, #otd at Mactan, Cebu, Philippines
Louise Moillon, 1610-1696
The Fruit and Vegetable Seller also known as The Greengrocer, 1631
(Louvre)
Left front and side of a woman's embroidered linen waistcoat, c. 1615, English
Silk & metal threads in a pattern of strawberries.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
25 April: The feast of St. Mark the Evangelist. His symbol, the lion #otd