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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)
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, before and after being widowed in 1621, when she adopted the #nuntastic Poor Clare habit.
How it started (1618). How it went (1627).
[Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien]
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
Two mice, Joris Hoefnagel, 1594
Hoefnagel made this drawing especially for his friend Johannes Muisenhol from Frankfurt. The image refers to his surname. The extinguished candle & eaten walnut represent the transience of life.
Visit at the Leasehold Farm, c. 1597
Jan Brueghel the Elder
On right the landlord and his wife dressed in the style favoured by Antwerp’s patricians. Their gift is a sugar loaf, probably to mark the recent birth of a child.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Cornelis de Vos
Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1633-1635
(RISD Museum)
12 Oct 1586: Richard Fletcher Dean of #Peterborough [later the bishop of #London] preaches to the commissioners charged with the trial of Mary Queen #Scots #otd (BM)
Destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by Titus,
by Nicolas Poussin, 1635.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Originally painted for Cardinal Francesco Barberini.