Sacred souvenir: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in olive wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl, late 17th century. (British Museum)

View of Jerusalem with the Temple of Solomon 17th century
Philippe de Champaigne, 1602–1674.

(Met Museum)

Kitchen Scene, 1620s

Peter Wtewael (Met Museum)

Judgement of Solomon mid-17th century British

(Met Museum)

Cope made for Antonio Barberini, Grand Prior of Rome in Order of Saint John & Knights of Malta c. 1623–28 (Met Museum) This cope celebrates Barberini’s family - his uncle was Urban VIII - with a repeating pattern of the family devices, a bee and a radiant sun. #WorldBeeDay

Inkstand, bronze, Padua, ca. 1500-1525 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Little Girl Playing with a Baby in its Mother's Arms 1610–85

Adriaen van Ostade (Met Museum)

20 May 1627: Henry Leslie of Leslie, #Fife is presented to the Deanery of Down Cathedral #otd as a reward for preaching before Charles I in July 1625. He became Bishop of Down & Connor in 1635 - a close ally of William Laud and John Bramhall & an anti-Covenanter (eebo/ardfern)

20 May 1627: Henry Leslie of Leslie, #Fife is presented to the Deanery of Down Cathedral #otd as a reward for preaching before Charles I in July 1625. He became Bishop of Down & Connor in 1635 - a close ally of William Laud and John Bramhall & an anti-Covenanter (eebo/ardfern)

20 May 1624: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury presents a House of Commons petition to the Lords #otd proposing Catholics be barred from public office (NPG)

20 May 1614: Cardinal Bellarmine ordains Toby [Tobie] Matthew, a priest #otd Matthew was a high profile convert: writer & courtier, patron of #nuntastic Carmelites at #Antwerp and son of the Church of #England Archbishop of #York (JMcC/eebo/BM)

20 May 1640: Godfrey Goodman of Ruthin, Denbighshire, the bishop of #Gloucester refuses to consent to the new canons in Convocation #otd (Saffron Blaze)

20 May 1636: George Crawley of St Gabriel's Fenchurch St #London is licensed #otd as a surgeon after examination under the terms of 3 Henry c. 11 (Agas Map)

20 May 1603: Julius Caesar #otd [born as Cesare Adelmare at Tottenham] is knighted at #Greenwich #otd A civil lawyer, MP and Master of the Rolls. And possessor of a quite wonderful name. (NPG)

20 May 1509: Edward Howard, naval commander, is appointed Henry VIII's standard bearer #otd (Navops47)

20 May 1593: Christopher Marlowe playwright released, two days after his arrest, on bail #otd

Here's an interesting title: 'Garden of the Inept Administrator', 1551 by Wen Zhengming (Met Museum)

20 May 1560: John Feckenham #Benedictine & last abbot of #Westminster sent of the Tower of #London #otd for his opposition to the 1559 settlement. He died, still confined, in Wisbech Castle in 1584.

Powder flask of tortoise shell c. 1625-1675 (Rijksmuseum)

20 May 1573: d. Robert Weston, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral #Dublin & Lord Chancellor of #Ireland #otd (He is commemorated in the Boyle monument in the cathedral- image thanks to
Liam ÓMhaoldomhnaigh
)