Johann Sebastian Bach
Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor BWV 1052
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“I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft.But that would be boasting”
Lewis Thomas

🖌MAK🇺🇸

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Happy Birthday to one of the most beloved artists in our collection! was in 1853.

Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers) is one of the very last paintings Vincent van Gogh ever made, painted just days before his death.

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"Marc can do story, he can do character, he can animate, he can design shows for me. All I have to do is tell him what I want and it's there! He's my Renaissance man." ~ Walt Disney on Marc Davis (#BornOnThisDay in 1913) 🎨

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Born on this day (1943-2019): Dennis Etchison.

Here's the UK edition of Darkside (Futura, 1987).

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"Art is free but you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

Mirka Mora (1928–2018) in

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“Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”
Melody Lee

🖌#BornOnThisDay (Giuseppe) Beppe Ciardi🇮🇹Portrait of the Nulli Girl,1912

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12Mar1807 General Sir James Abbott a British army officer and administrator in colonial India. The Pakistani city of Abbottabad was founded by and named after him. Here is he shown in Afghan dress.

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Piet Mondrian

Arboreal Metamorphosis

Farm building near irrigation ditch with farmer at work and woman doing the laundry, c. 1898-1902
Trees on the Gein Moonrise, 1907
Red Tree, c. 1908-10
The Flowering Apple Tree, 1912

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Michelangelo is likely who you think of when I say "Sistine Chapel". But the Chapel is much more than just a ceiling. Sandro Botticelli also painted there.

One example is this beautiful fresco on the southern wall entitled "Trials of Moses". (1481-82) 🎨

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