John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

2 May 1586: #Jesuit General Claudio Acquaviva gives Robert Southwell (executed 1595) & Henry Garnett (executed 1606) licence to go to #England #otd #highattritionrate

2 May 1527: Princess Katharine, Countess of #Devon, daughter of Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville, godmother of Princess Mary makes her will #otd (BL)

2 May 1636: Thomas Howard 2nd Earl of Arundel arrives at #Cologne #Koln #otd There he recruits Wenceslaus Hollar (BM) They arrive in #London in December. Hollar’s many images make up a large part of our visual vocabulary of early modern Britain & Ireland

1530s England imagined from 1620s/30s Spain
Vicente Carducho (Museo Nacional del Prado)

Martyrdom of 3 Carthusians at London
Martyrdoms of Frs John Rochester & James Walworth
Martyrdom of Priors of London, Nottingham & Axholme
Imprisonment of 10 members of London Charterhouse

Perhaps it’s the sunlight or the olives stuffed with jalapeño I had last night, but I’ve been thinking about this wonder.

View of Toledo
c. 1599–1600
El Greco or Domenikos Theotokopoulos

(Met Museum)

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

@DrStevenMFoster

The Ford
Jan Siberechts, 1660s

(KMSKA/Photographer
Hugo Maertens/artinflanders.be)

28 Apr 1554: John Cheke, former tutor to Edward VI, is pardoned #otd for his role in the Lady Jane Grey affair. He went abroad about this time.
On 4 Oct 1556 he made a humiliating recantation of his #Protestant beliefs in front of the Queen's Court (BM)