John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

A very austere depiction of St. Jerome, late 17thC
By Arnold Houbrake, 1660 - 1719.

(Dallas Museum of Art)

7 Feb 1550: The conclave of Cardinals elect Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte as Pope #otd He takes the name Julius - Julius III. Under Mary I, he receives her realms back into the Roman obedience. He d. 1555.

From the series Vermis Sericus, engraved by Karel van Mallery, published by Philips Galle around 1595.

Incubation of the eggs, laying of them on hatching shelves, feeding the worms with mulberry leaves & reeling the silk.

Silk manufacture as a female labour.

(Met Museum)

A kitchen, Hendricks Sorgh, c. 1643

(Met Museum)

6 Feb 1514: in the ascendant, Thomas Wolsey is nominated Bishop of #Lincoln #otd By August he was Archbishop of #York & became a cardinal in Sept 1514 #Fasttrackcareer

6 Feb: feast #otd of St. Dorothy d. c. 313, martyr of Caesarea (BM) her emblem is a basket of fruit & flowers

College of Animals, Cornelius Saftleven, 1655

A satire on contemporary academic life.

Among other things, Amadis of Gaul appears to be on the reading list.

(Dallas Museum of Art)

So this is a mid-16th century design for a #snail-shaped pitcher by Virgil Solis (BM) The question is, would you drink or otherwise use water poured from it?

Susannah and the Elders, embroidered c. 1660 in England.

A small menagerie of animals here, including a turkey

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

Visio Catoptri Microcosmici Prima
[First Vision from Mirrors of the Microcosm]

Anatomical flap prints, Lucas Kilian, c. 1660

(British Museum)