Jane Hoodlessさんのイラストまとめ

Propriety did not prevent Samuel Pepys–who died #OTD 1703–from engaging in a number of extramarital liaisons with various women. These were chronicled in his diary, often in some detail, & generally used a melangé of languages when relating the intimate details.

Franz Mesmer–born #OTD 1734–theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated & inanimate objects called animal magnetism, later known as 'Mesmerism'. He often concluded his treatments by playing some music on a glass armonica…

Charles Beauclerk–born #OTD 1670–whose mother, Nell Gwyn, said: "Come here, you little bastard, & greet your father." When Charles II rebuked her for calling him that, she replied "Your Majesty has given me no other name to call him by", & he was thus created the Earl of Burford.

Best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins, Caspar David Friedrich died in obscurity #OTD 1840, his work having fallen from favour.

A gripping orator, Barbara Castle–died #OTD 2002–garnered a reputation as a strong-willed, sometimes single-minded crusader. Stylish, glamorous & often characterised as vain; she had "an astonishing tenacity & capacity for getting her own way in Cabinet & nearly everywhere else".

Symbolist, Gustave Moreau concerned himself with ethereal biblical & mythological themes & died #OTD 1898: "I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel."

Arshile Gorky, born #OTD 1904: "The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview."

Leonardo da Vinci born #OTD 1452 at the 3rd hour of the night, the illegitimate son of a legal notary & a peasant. An individual of unquenchable curiosity & feverishly inventive imagination, he is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals to've ever lived.

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(No.26) The Mane Man #Ibsen

Bruno Hoffmann, who resurrected the glass harmonica's ethereal beauty, died #OTD 1991. He designed & built his own instrument aged 16, consisting of a set of wine glasses mounted in a wooden box, whose rims were rubbed to produce the tone. https://t.co/imi4PcyeSi