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Born #OnThisDay in 1669: Dutch painter #ArnoldBoonen (1669-1729)
Portrait of #JanvanHuysum (1682-1749), 1720
#Boonen #DutchBaroque #DutchArt
#Onthisday in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter generally credited as the pioneer of Abstract Art, was born in Moscow.(..) Kandinsky himself regarded Composition VIII as the high point of his postwar achievement. 📕 Learn more: https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F 🏛 @Guggenheim
#OnThisDay 1789 the royal family went to the #theatre at Drury Lane for the 1st time since George III's illness. They saw the Haunted Tower by James Cobb & Who's the Dupe? by Hannah Cowley
The same day news arrived of the fall of #Brussels
#twitterstorians
Happy Birthday to the Roman Emperor Nero, born on this day in 37 A.D.
Sketch by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#Nero #EmperorNero #RomanEmpire #ancientrome #Emperor #WorcesterArtMuseum #WAM #museumsketch #artmuseum #museum #history #OnThisDay #TravisSimpkins #art #sketch
Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/sXJtuHnFTJ #OTD
December 14, 1799: George Washington died at the age of 67 at his home, Mount Vernon, in Virginia.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#GeorgeWashington #MountVernon #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstates #FoundingFathers #AmericanHistory #history #OnThisDay #otd
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
Shirley Jackson was born #OnThisDay in 1916 #ReadMoreWomen
#OnThisDay 1688 James II's humiliations reached a new low when his letter from Faversham was read out to the provisional #government at Whitehall. He complained of being stopped by 'a rabble of seamen, fishermen & others' who had taken all of his money.
#twitterstorians #HistParl
#OnThisDay 49 years ago: Bubble chamber camera equipment. @Fermilab's bubble chamber used cameras to produce striking bubble chamber photos, such as the example included here (this particular bubble chamber photo is from 1978; the photo of the camera equipment is from 1972).
Born #onthisday1871 Emily Carr Canadian #artist painter drew inspiration from Pacific Northwest Coasts’ Indigenous peoples One of first Canadian #painters to explore #Modernist & #PostModernist style Shift from Indigenous themes to landscapes particularly forests won recognition
"A work of art comes only from inside a human being."
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter 🎂 born #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD #creativity #inspiration #ArtHeals
👇 Melancholy 1893
#OnthisDay in 1911, Polish-French Scientist, Marie Curie became the first (and only to date) person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields; physics and chemistry
Hive Books: https://t.co/0VNzaqdYba
Amazon: https://t.co/yGDpqJDaPG
The day before making the final decision to go himself #OnThisDay 1688, James II packed his queen & son, Prince James, off to exile in #France:
"This news, being very surprising, has made some persons think fit to shift for themselves"
#HistParl #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 1688 James II finally resolved on flight, admitting "I am in no good condition, nay, in as bad a one as is possible".
In the early hours of the 11th he quit Whitehall & the people of England awoke to find they had no government.
#HistParl #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 20 years ago, December 10th, 2001 - The episode "The Enemy Below" part 2 aired on television.
Directed by Dan Riba
Written by Kevin Hopps
#JLReunion
#Words #Art
“Mortals that would follow me,
Love virtue, she alone is free,
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or if virtue feeble were,
Heaven itself would stoop to her.”
#BornOnThisDay John Milton
🖌Charles R. Leslie (🇬🇧1794-1859)An Allegory of Virtue
Anthony van Dyck died 380 years ago #OnThisDay.
Using watercolour, he captured this lush rural scene, ‘An English Landscape’. 🌳
His rapid technique suggests it was created as he waited to set sail to Antwerp. If you could go anywhere, where would you travel to today?
Adieu to Madame du Barry, mistress to Louis XV. She was executed #onthisday in 1793. She was hysterical as she mounted the scaffold and exclaimed, "One more moment, Mr. Executioner, I beg you!” before the blade fell.