A new kind of closure on wine for me. There’s still a cork but you can close it again - good for picnics?

Voting very brisk in Blanchardstown just now. 23 on the Euro election ballot paper. Longest one I have seen in my voting lifetime.

MA/PhD in London working on faith & religion? Not sure what archival material is available & where to find it... Come along to this! rb.gy/lpnzgf *

Coati (Nasua), or coatimundi

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, d. #otd 6 June 1561

Portrait of a Woman, 1518 (Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence)

Portrait of a Woman Possibly by Jacopo Zucchi, b. Florence 1541 – d. 1590 Rome mid-16th century (Met Museum)

Monaco in adorazione del Crocifisso,
1640/1660

(Museo Civico di Modena)

The Nativity with Saints, about 1514. Ridolfo Ghirlandaio

The artist died #otd 6 June 1561 (Met Museum)

6 June 1561: d. Ridolfo Ghirlandaio #artist at #Florence #Firenze #otd

6 June 1523: Gustav Vasa is elected King of #Sweden #otd ending the 126 year old Kalmar union of Denmark, Norway & Sweden under one crown

Gunpwder Plot, 1605

'The Powder Treason, Propounded,/Approved,/Enterprised,/Practized,/Reveled./Expounded, By Sathan./Antichrist./Papists./Traitors./An Eagle./An Oracle. Founded, in Hell/Confounded, in Heaven'

Michael Droeshout, c. 1620-1625 (British Museum)

Saints of 5, 6, 7 June
(French calendar, 17thC, British Museum)

Maria Gaudiorum (the Seven Joys of Mary)
St Claude
St Norbert
St Robert of Newminster

This painting was shared by John McCafferty along w questions about the antics of riding a horse when drunk. Thank you, John, for launching my brain into considering this topic. What fun we’ve had looking into it! I hope we’ve answered your questions. cassidycash.com/ep320

Petticoat Panel
c. 1600

(V&A Museum)

'Fashionable gowns of the 1590s and early 1600s were often worn open in front to reveal a decorative petticoat or forepart underneath'.

A Pair of Wedding Gloves, Netherlands, 1622

(Rijksmuseum)

Pieter Pietersz.

Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Man
1597

(Maurithuis, The Hague)

The man was in the collection since 1953 and the woman, whose portrait is the other part of this pair, was donated in 1996.

The last Supper, with Willem Key's (d. 5 June 1568) self-portrait lower right, c. 1560.

Putting himself at the scene, I like it.

(Dordrechts Museum)

6 June 1599: b. Diego Velazquez #painter at #Sevilla #otd (Prado) Here he peeks out from behind the large canvas on the left. A court painter who favoured title over recompense.

6 June 1134: d. St Norbert, founder of the Premonstratensians & an advocate of clerical celibacy #otd (BM)

6 June 1650: Thomas Fleming #Franciscan Archbishop of #Dublin writes #otd of the devastation of Dublin city due to war, famine, disease