John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

St. Bernard's Lily [Anthericum liliago] with a blue ladybeetle, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

18 Dec 1627: John Lambe #astrologer examined by the College of Physicians #otd & found to be ignorant of the language and practice of #medicine. In June 1628 Lambe was stoned & killed by a #London mob as a reputed sorcerer.

16 Dec 1656: The Protectorate Parliament condemns James Nayler prophet to whipping through the streets, the pillory, tongue bored with red-hot iron & branded 'B' for blasphemy on his forehead (BM/NPG)

11 Dec 1688: Archbishop Sancroft chairs an assembly of 27 peers in The Guildhall #London #otd in the wake of James II's flight from the city. They set up a provisional government in order to stop the capital falling into chaos. They do not invite William, nor stop him.

Kissing in 1653, Gesina Ter Borch (Rijksmuseum)

El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600

Look how Mary has her arm around Anne.

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Carrot (Daucus carota) and red currant (Ribes rubrum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

24 Nov 1633: the Baptism of James (II & VII) takes place #otd at St. James' Palace #London (BM/NPG)

The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617/1618 - painted for the Jesuit church in #Antwerp in the run up to Xavier's beatification in 1619

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Two elephants, Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594 (Rijksmuseum)