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Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus, Herman Saftleven, 1683
(Rijksmuseum)
Suitably dark tones for #Halloween from Cornelis Saftleven’s 1650 witches
(Art Institute Chicago)
Johannes Vermeer,
Woman writing a letter with her maid, 1670.
(National Gallery of Ireland)
John the Baptist preaches, Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1644
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673.
(Met Museum)
These depictions of reading as a communal exercise are so useful for thinking with.
16 Oct 1660: John Cook(e) first Solicitor General of the English Commonwealth and regicide is executed #otd (NPG), his friend Hugh Peter, preacher & regicide is made watch before his own demise (NPG)
When you decide to draw a zebra but rely on secondhand accounts, Antonio Tempesta c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)
15 Oct: feast of Teresa of #Avila #nuntastic founder, #writer #mystic co-patron of #Spain (BM/JMcC) d. 1582