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#Vaccinated: @amplifierart is commissioning diverse art posters to encourage vaccination against Covid-19, and support @vaccine_trust, showing how important artists’ voices really are.
Seen here: @thomaswimberly and Votan Henriquez
#OnThisDay the largest art heist in American history took place in 1990.
13 works valued at $500 million were stolen from the @gardnermuseum Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. None have been recovered, and the frames still hang empty...
#OnThisDayInArtHistory
A year from today marks Rosa Bonheur’s 200th birthday, with the @MuseeOrsay holding a large exhibition on the realist painter decorated with the Legion of Honor by Empress Eugénie, and whose favorite subject was animals.
#OnThisDay in 1832, the ballet La Sylphide first premiered at @operadeparis.
Filippo Taglioni designed it to showcase his daughter, Marie, the first woman to dance en pointe. Fanny Elssler and Emma Livry also took up the role.
#OnThisDayInArtHistory
For the first time, the @Rijksmuseum is presenting works by #womenartists in its Gallery of Honor.
Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch and Rachel Ruysch will soon join Vermeer and Rembrandt on permanent display.
#WomensHistoryMonth2021
These works are all by the same artist – the French painter Auguste Herbin.
Cycling his way through #Impressionism to #Cubism to complete #abstraction, this latest work, Breeze (1958), recently sold for €112,056.
https://t.co/GuK2uDEReU
Save Kinmel Hall, the “Versailles of Wales”!
Following fires and looting, the abandoned mansion – Wales’ largest country home, and visited by Queen Victoria – requires action in order to preserve it.
@nesfieldcrown @thevicsoc
This work by Ludivico Carracci, Annibale Carracci's cousin, features one of the painter’s recurring themes: The Adoration of the Magi.
With marked chiaroscuro & clear iconography, it’s a classic example of the artist’s work.
It will go on sale on March 27 with @Briscadieu_Bx.
The Bayeux Tapestry is set to get a full makeover.
The 75-yard-long 11th-century masterpiece depicting the Norman conquest of England has certainly experienced some wear and tear over the past millennium.
Complete restoration works are set to begin in 2024. @BayeuxMuseum
On this day in 1597, Flemish Mannerist painter Frederick van Valckenborch, known for his imaginary landscapes, became a citizen of Frankfurt-on-Main, having moved from the Spanish-occupied Netherlands to seek a more liberal environment.
#OTD #OnThisDayInArtHistory