Nathan Francisさんのイラストまとめ

🎨 #AlexeiSavrasov, Russian painter, was #BOTD 24 May 1830. #Art #Painting

🎨 #LuisDeNain, French painter, #DOTD 23 May 1648. #Art #Painting

🎨 #AndreaAppiani, Italian royal painter (#Napoleon), was #BOTD 23 May 1754. #Art #Painting

🎨 #ClaudeMellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, was #BOTD 23 May 1598. #Art

“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.”

✒️ #MaxBeerbohm, English caricaturist, writer and parodist, #DOTD 20 May 1956. #Art #Literature

🎨#JacobJordaens, Flemish baroque artist, was #BOTD 20 May 1593. #Art #Painting

🎨 #TamaraDeLempicka, Polish-born painter, was #BOTD 16 May 1898. #Art #Painting

“A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”

📖#OTD in the #History of #Literature 1711, #AlexanderPope's "An Essay on Criticism" was published anon.

🎨#KazimirMalevich, Polish-Ukrainian avant-garde painter, #DOTD 15 May 1935. #Art #Painting

🎨 #ThomasGainsborough, English painter, was #BOTD 14 May 1727. #Art #Painting