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Died #OnThisDay in 1469: Florentine painter Fra #FilippoLippi (1406-69)
Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1445
#Lippi #ItalianRenaissance
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
#OnThisDay 1979
Joy Division's debut single 'Transmission' was released by Factory Records. (FAC 13)
#OnThisDay 21 years ago, October 7, 2000 - the episode "Big Time" aired on television.
Directed by @JTuckerAnimator
Story by @tomruegger & @b0bg00dman #BatmanBeyond
#OnThisDay October 5th, 2009, the album called "Sonic Boom" is released. It's the 1st in 11 years of "Kiss". Produced by Paul Stanley: "the purpose of this album is not to let people know we're still here, it's to let people know we can still knock out anyone out there!". #Kiss
#onthisday 1789 Parisians women found themselves at the market protesting against the expensive cost of life. Led by 'fishwives', 6000 of them marched on Versailles, where the King and the National Assembly were gathered. And there they forced Louis XVI to receive them.
Born #OnThisDay in 1640: #FrançoiseAthénaïsdeRochechouart, Marquise de #Montespan (1640-1707), mistress of #LouisXIV
Portrait after Pierre #Mignard (1612-95), ca. 1676-1700
#MadamedeMontespan #Bourbon
Died #OnThisDay in 1710: Flemish-Spanish painter active in England & Scotland #JohnBaptistMedina (1659-1710)
Portrait of Sir William Bruce (ca. 1625-1710), ca. 1705
#Medina #BritishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1710: Flemish-Spanish painter active in England & Scotland #JohnBaptistMedina (1659-1710)
Portrait of George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636-1707), 1691
#Medina #BritishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1710: Flemish-Spanish painter active in England & Scotland #JohnBaptistMedina (1659-1710)
Portrait of James Drummond, 2nd titular Duke of Perth (1673-1720), ca. 1700
#Medina #BritishArt #PeopleOfColourInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1710: Flemish-Spanish painter active in England & Scotland #JohnBaptistMedina (1659-1710)
Portrait of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington (1680-1735), after 1700
#Medina #BritishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1710: Flemish-Spanish painter active in England & Scotland #JohnBaptistMedina (1659-1710)
Self-portrait, ca. 1698
#Medina #BritishArt
#OnThisDay 1994 : The first edition of SMart was broadcast on Children's BBC.
#90s
"Il fine della pittura non è quello di commuovere, ma piuttosto quello di rappresentare."
#AlbertoSughi
#5ottobre 1928
#OnThisDay
Alberto Sughi
pittore
#OnThisDay in 1936, the Battle of Cable Street took place
East End communities successfully rose up against Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Read more about this iconic moment in the fight against fascism on HWO
https://t.co/eMQFjfTE8R
#OnThisDay in 1226, St. Francis of Assisi passed away. Did you know that just years after his death, Henry of Avranches composed a verse poem of Francis’s life?
Check it out in #DOML's SAINTS’ LIVES VOL. 1, from @Harvard_Press: https://t.co/0nd2OQzcb2
#ICYMI: Today's #GoogleDoodle honors biologist & oceanographer María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, who was born #OnThisDay in 1916. She conducted research @WHOI & @NOAAFisheries & discovered 22 new marine organisms!
More info: https://t.co/A3HvFR4883
#histSTM #WomenInSTEM
Born #OnThisDay in 1722: German painter #JohannHeinrichTischbein the Elder (1722-1789)
Portrait of Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal (1761-99), 1781
#Tischbein #KasselerTischbein #GermanArt
Museumslandschaft Hessen-Kassel
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 125 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/5h182DQ5td
#OnThisDay 1936 Steve #Reich, American
#composer, born in NYC, New York (Image © @danielgarciaart)
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales #OnThisDay https://t.co/TjbvdZgxlI by @NewsOrkney