10 Dec 1485: Parliament urges Henry VII to marry 'that illustrious lady Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV' for 'propagation of offspring from the stock of kings' #otd They did and they propagated too! (NPG)
jdmccafferty
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Historian of the late middle ages & early modern world. Especially religion & even more especially Franciscans. UCD, Ireland.
#Histodon
10 Dec 1583: #Whitehall authorizes the use of torture on the #Catholic Archbishop O'Hurley of #Cashel #otd
They go to it.
11 Nov: St Martin of Tours, convert, soldier, bishop. A very important saint for the early #Irish church.
Here he gives his cloak to a beggar - El Greco
26 Aug 1349: d. Thomas Bradwardine Archbishop of #Canterbury of the Black Death #otd philosopher & theologian, archbishop for only 38 days
13 Aug 1553: William Herbert 1st earl of #Pembroke admitted to Mary I's Privy Council #otd
(Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales)
Portrait of Charlotte Duchesne c. 1628 Done by her husband Philippe de Champaigne who had been hired by her father Nicolas Duchesne to assist in the decoration of the Luxembourg Palace for Marie de' Medici. (Met Museum)
De Champaigne died #otd 12 Aug 1672.
Castleworkhouse, Wexford
Dirk (Theodorus) Helmbreker,
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
I cut this image out of a sale catalogue years ago. Never been able to find its source since (and I have tried a lot!).
If you know where it is from, I'd be thrilled to find out.
The Virgin with the Infant in swaddling clothes; a woodcut copy by C van Sichem after a print by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) V&A Museum, London.
