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Born #OnThisDay in 1721: #JeanneAntoinettePoisson, Marquise of #Pompadour (1721-64), Maîtresse-en-titre of #LouisXV
Portrait by François #Boucher (1703-70), 1756
#MadamedePompadour #Bourbon #DogsInArt
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Great patron of the arts and mistress to Louis XV, #MadamedePompadour was born #onthisday 1721.
This painting, by French artist #FrançoisBoucher, was painted in 1759.
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François Boucher, (1703-1770)
Sketch for a Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), c. 1750
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson was 'maîtresse-en-titre' of Louis XV. Boucher’s portraits were central to her self-presentation
#FrenchArt @WaddesdonManor #portrait
Leonardo da Vinci, first edition in English of "Trattato della Pittura", first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition. J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Casti (1721-1803), ca. 1830 https://t.co/jcXvTQl9W6 #openaccess #chndm
Joshua stops the sun - Ilario Spolverini, 1721-27.
(Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza). #art
やまの妖精イエティさんが日本百名山を紹介します。
利尻岳(1721m 北海道)
島全体が一つの頂点に引き絞られて天に向かっている見事な山。
シマリスさんに会える山。
#イラスト
#山が好き
#日本百名山
#利尻岳
#やまの妖精イエティさんの物語
#terranicola
Born #OnThisDay in 1658: #MaryofModena (1658-1718), Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland as wife of #JamesII
Portrait by #SimonVerelst (1644-1721), ca. 1680
#MariadiModena #Este #Stuart
Born #OnThisDay in 1744: #FrederickWilliamII (1744-97), King of Prussia
Portrait by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82), 1773
#FriedrichWilhelmII #Hohenzollern #WomenArtists
#Marmorpalais
"May your years be multiplied to my fond wishes & never know an hour of sorrow"
Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol (born #OTD 1665) on the eve of his #birthday in 1721
#HappyBirthday #twitterstorians #ThursdayMotivation
Grinling Gibbons died #onthisday 1721. Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.” #gloriousGeorgians
Born #OnThisDay in 1645: #MargueriteLouisedOrléans (1645 -1721), Grand Duchess of Tuscany as spouse of #CosimoIIIdeMedici, daughter of #GastonOfFrance
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 1665-1700
#Bourbon #Medici
The French painterJean-Antoine Watteau also passed on this date, 1721. He had an influence on the arts, not only painting, but the decorative arts, costume, film, poetry, and music.
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28 juin 1721 : Décès d’Isaac Sailmaker, peintre de marine hollandais
En 2 : Le château Cornet à Guernesey
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