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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