John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

Reading the Bible, c. 1645
Gerard Dou

(Musée du Louvre)

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)

4 May 1472: John Walton, former Abbot of Osney, is papally provided to the Archbishopric of #Dublin #otd where he was active until his resignation in 1484, due to ill-health.

(British Museum)

Avarice, Cornelis Bloemaert (II), after Abraham Bloemaert, 1626

3 May 1641: Protesting outside #Westminster Hall, John Lilburne, future Leveller tells an acquaintance that if justice is not done to the Earl of #Strafford 'they would pull the King out of Whitehall' #otd (BM) And they did, in the end... #overheardinLondon

3 May 1493: John Colet, future dean of @StPaulsLondon & humanist scholar enrolls #otd as a 'confrater' of the #English hospice #Rome (Royal Collection)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609) c. 1600
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Met Museum)