jdmccafferty

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Child Holding a Pear,
German, 16th century

(Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Everyone working in universities today is used to online research profiles.
Here's how a 17th century one might go:
Portrait of Bernhard Sannig, Franciscan, 1692 (BM)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to languagelearning

Dish with centaur and centauress battling
c. 1500–1510 #Italian (Met Museum)
An unusual subject with a cryptic inscription.

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1613, Robert Echlin, a Scot, is consecrated bishop of Down & Connor #otd (Ardfern)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1589: Bl. Thomas Belson, Catholic layman is arrested at the Catherine Wheel Inn #Oxford, near Balliol College #otd.
He was executed at Longwall #Oxford with three others on 5 July 1589 (BM)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1621: Henry Spelman writes to James Ussher, Bishop of Meath #otd about a monument in the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds taken down some 40 years earlier (NPG)

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jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to poland

18 May 1583: Olbrecht Łaski palatinate of Sieradż #Poland arrives at Mortlake meets with John Dee for the 2nd time during his #English trip to work on alchemy & angelic sessions #otd (Bodleian)

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jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Dish with a Portrait of Prince William III as a Child, 1658 (Rijksmuseum) or King Billy-to-be

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Margaret of Austria, aged about 10 years,
c. 1490
by Jean Hey [called Master of Moulins]
(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Panel
c. 1520–40 #French
The crown, initial F, and salamander engulfed in flames are emblematic of François I, who reigned from 1515 to 1547. Carved in wood or stone, variations on this device figured prominently in the decoration of François’s châteaux.
(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1643: The badge known as 'The forlorn hope' commissioned #otd depicting Charles I and Prince Charles (II) #otd

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1152: Henry II m. Eleanor of Aquitaine #otd: she was powerful, beautiful, rich
(Gamgee)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May: d. 944 St Ælfgifu of #Shaftesbury, mother of 2 kings #otd (CDowner)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

18 May 1540: 23 sarcenet quilts are purchased for Katherine Howard by Henry VIII #otd (RoyalColl)

Wooing with textiles...

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to translator

18 May 1554: William Thomas #translator is hanged, drawn, quartered at Tyburn for encompassing the death of Mary I of #England (BM) He’d already botched suicide by stabbing himself in the Tower of #London on 25 Feb.

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to ireland

18 May 1640: Archibald Adair #Scottish Church of #Ireland bishop of Killala found guilty of uttering seditious words, appearing to favour the Covenanters #otd

Deprived of his see on 18 June 1640

(JohnArmagh)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Virgin of Immaculate Conception with Franciscan Saints c. 1675, Diego Quispe Cuzco, Peru

(Denver Art Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Virgin & Child, German, 1493 (Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 11 hours ago to random

Earrings in this form were fashionable in 1st century Rome.
In this pair hollow gold balls hang from blue glass discs, meant to evoke more costly Lapis Lazuli.

(Art Institute Chicago)

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

A little late afternoon calm from Rembrandt, 1650.

(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

18 May 1561: Henry Carey, son of Mary Boleyn & William Carey. Much-favoured first cousin of Elizabeth I admitted Knight of the Garter #otd

There were even rumours that Henry VIII was his real father.

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

Knight with a Clock, By Titian, c. 1550

(Museo Nacional del Prado)

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jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

18 May 1692: d. Elias Ashmole FRS, antiquary, astronomer, mason, polymath at #Lambeth #otd (NPG)

Who gives his name to the
Ashmolean Museum

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

18 May 1587: d. St. Felix of Cantalice #Capuchin - beggar, preacher, plain-speaker #otd He's fully equipped for begging here.

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to ireland

18 May 1308: Edward II bows to pressure #otd & agrees to send Piers Gaveston abroad.

Gaveston was appointed royal Lieutenant of #Ireland on 16 June