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Giuseppe Bonito's Il Femminiello (1740/1760) is the only known c.18th depiction of an Italian femminiello, which translates as “little female-men". Femminielli were believed to bring good luck and were often asked to bless newborns. #GloriousGeorgians from Portland Art Museum.
Robert Crone (1740-79) was born in Dublin, settling in London in 1767, regularly contributing @royalacademy. He submitted a single piece to the Society of Artists of Ireland 1770 show @CAHDublin: 'A Landscape and Figures' (Private Collection).
Learn more: https://t.co/hHBl8AB0N6
Antonio Balestra (12 August 1666–21 April 1740) was an Italian painter.Theseus discovering his Father's Sword by Balestra
Antoine Vestier (27 April 1740- 24 December 1824) was a French painter.Huile sur toile, 1778, Paris, coll portrait de femme. Pastel. 1780. 58x49cm
Born #OnThisDay in 1717: Holy Roman Empress #MariaTheresa (1717-80)
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1740
#MariaTheresia #Habsburg
Two projects for an altar mensa, 1740–1758 https://t.co/NBk8qSv2Po #openaccess #chndm
Born #OnThisDay in 1740: French painter #AntoineVestier (1740-1824)
Posthumous portrait of the artist's son Jean-René Vestier (d.1778), 1788
#Vestier #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1740: French painter #AntoineVestier (1740-1824)
Portrait of The Comtesse D'Estrades, 18th Century
#Vestier #FrenchArt
Design for a Vase, 1730–1740 https://t.co/pJqEtIYn8j #museumarchive #openaccess
#Bilaspur 1740 #Vishwaroopa at SDMA; The #Cosmic form:
“Purusha is both immanent in the manifested world and yet transcendent to it. This causes the projection of the universe in space and time.” fm #PurushaSuktam of #RigVeda ~1500BCE
@ssharadmohhan @dpanikkar @Go_Movie_Mango
Francesco Faraone Aquila (ca. 1676-1740) maakte deze prent naar Rafaëls muurschildering 'De School van Athene' in de Stanza della Segnatura in het Vaticaan, de privébibliotheek van paus Julius II. In het midden zie je de filosofen Plato en Aristoteles. https://t.co/HdqvNIq0io
Born #OnThisDay 2Apr1740 Armand-Gaston Camus a French revolutionist who was exchanged for Marie Thérèse of France (the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) in November of 1795. Learn more about this exchange: https://t.co/fzUfQwQRUT #history #18thcentury
@DavLucia @arteeblog @bmarczewska @martinis2018 @claudioborlotto @1alert1 @Rebeka80721106 @neblaruz @marialves53 @ValerioLivia @BrindusaB1 @albertopetro2 @lissablu68 @CaterinaCategio @angela3nipoti1 @BaroneZaza70 @migliaccio31 @agustin_gut @AlessandraCicc6 @Messe11 @ampomata @anne_camozzi @MaxPriviero @Biagio960 @ritamay1 @smarucci461 @scastaldi9 @LunaLeso @BPerrionni @marmelyr @dianadep1 @ANNAMARIABIASI1 @gori_magnani @GaiaGaudenzi @paoloigna1 @VicoLudovico @licprospero @cmont4560 @albert_cunill @ceconomou56 @CristianeGLima @erminiopasquat1 @FriendArt_ @SalaLettura @Annasaba8 @CarmelaCusmai @GiardinoPietro @Make_u2_happy @karmendida @mariaireneali Andre Bouys (31.3.1656-1740) was a French painter
Male(?) Figure Seen from Below, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1740s https://t.co/NXYsQXWLG5 #cmadrawings #clevelandart
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg the younger (1740-1812)-'the battle of the First of June, 1794'-oil on canvas-1795
Jean-Baptiste Gautier Dagoty (1740-1786)-'Marie Antoinette playing harp at the French court'-gouache on paper-1774
Half a long life spent as sailor and the other half as painter, unsurprisingly (but not exclusively) of marine art of the Age of Sail: Nicholas Pocock, b. #OTD 1740 in Bristol.
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Wreck, 1811
Fleet of East Indiamen, 1803
'Victory' in Naples Bay, 1804
Duckworth's Action, 1808