John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Woman in an armchair
Rembrandt, c. 1654-60

(British Museum)

29 Jan 1553: John Hooper deprived bishop of #Gloucester is sentenced to death by fire #otd

He was burnt at #Gloucester on 9 Feb in an agonising spectacle as the pyre was reluctant to ignite in the rain (BM)

Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.

By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
(Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)

She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in. Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.

Country woman, Gesina ter Borch, 1655

(Rijksmuseum)

26 Jan 1340: Edward III publicly assumes the arms & title of King of France #otd

Fleur de Lys, anyone?

Christ and the Adulteress
ca. 1545–50

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Cranach died #otd 25 Jan 1586

(Met Museum)

The Conversion of St. Paul,
1509, Lucas van Leyden (Met Museum)
Here, on the road to Damascus, Paul is dazzle-blinded by God, very discreetly tucked into the top-left of the overall image.

Today, 25 Jan is the feast of the Conversion of Paul.

Tamerlane using a captive king as a mounting block for his #horse (late 16thC, BM) That's doing it despot style.

24 Jan 1617: Theodore Diodati - physician to the royal children of James VI & I and Anne of Denmark - is licensed by the College of Physicians #London #otd He turned up with his #Leiden degree as proof (BM)

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation
c. 1595/1600

By El Greco - Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Art Institute Chicago)