1. gorgonetta:

    [Self-portraits of Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Beale, and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, text “Never apologize for selfies”]

  2. masterpiecedaily: Ambrosius Benson Young Woman in Orison Reading a Book of Hours 1520s

    masterpiecedaily:

    Ambrosius Benson

    Young Woman in Orison Reading a Book of Hours

    1520s

  3. aleyma: Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder, Portrait of a Woman, 1541 (source).

    aleyma:

    Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder, Portrait of a Woman, 1541 (source).

  4. ratak-monodosico:

    Various fantastic creatures and sea monsters from a map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez, 1562

  5. everytimeyoucan: — illustration from 16th century Ottoman manuscript showing a giant armillary sphere.

    everytimeyoucan:

    — illustration from 16th century Ottoman manuscript showing a giant armillary sphere.

  6. masterpiecedaily: Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Hunters in the Snow, January 1565

    masterpiecedaily:

    Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    The Hunters in the Snow, January

    1565

  7. muirgilsdream: Wild Boar Piglet, 1578, by Hans Hoffmann, circa 1530- 1591.

    muirgilsdream:

    Wild Boar Piglet, 1578, by Hans Hoffmann, circa 1530-
    1591.

  8. peira: Lavinia Fontana:  Cleopatra (1585)

    peira:

    Lavinia Fontana:  Cleopatra (1585)

  9. I was going to post some Romantic-era storm paintings as my Obligatory Hurricane Sandy Post, but I was getting seasick looking at all those Aivazovskys. 

    So instead have a hastily-thrown-together photoset of mythological Greeks gettin’ it on with weather gods! 

  10. demonagerie: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 357, f. 279 (St Gall and his companion bear). Pontifical-Missal of the St. Gallen Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1530-1564). St Gall, 1555.

    demonagerie:

    St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 357, f. 279 (St Gall and his companion bear). Pontifical-Missal of the St. Gallen Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1530-1564). St Gall, 1555.

  11. biblioguerilla:

    Thought to be the first depiction of llamas, in one of the earliest accounts of the conquest of Peru.

    Zarate, Augustin de. The Strange and delectable History of the  discoverie and Conquest of the Provinces of Peru. (4to. London, R ichard Ihones, 1581)

  12. masterpiecedaily: Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555.

    masterpiecedaily:

    Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555.

  13. gallarusarts: Ivory Bust of King of France Henri IV 1553-1610 probably late 1500’s.

    gallarusarts:

    Ivory Bust of King of France Henri IV 1553-1610 probably late 1500’s.

  14. uncertaintimes: attributed to the workshop of Pompeo della Chiesa, ca. 1580-1600

    uncertaintimes:

    attributed to the workshop of Pompeo della Chiesa, ca. 1580-1600

  15. masterpiecedaily: Bacchiacca Portrait of a Young Woman with a Cat 1525

    masterpiecedaily:

    Bacchiacca

    Portrait of a Young Woman with a Cat

    1525