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Happy 7th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode “Joking Victim” 💖💎🎊 it premiered on @cartoonnetwork in August 28, 2014 🎉🍩 I love this episode how Steven fills in for Lars on his day off. 🌸🌹⭐️ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay #Happy7thAnniversary
Born #OnThisDay in 1833: English artist #EdwardBurneJones (1833-98)
Portrait of Philip Comyns Carr, 1882
#BurneJones #PreRaphaelites #BritishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1833: English artist #EdwardBurneJones (1833-98)
Portrait of the Artist's wife Georgiana Burne-Jones, née MacDonald (1840-1920), 1863
#BurneJones #PreRaphaelites #BritishArt
Edward Burn-Jones, British artist and designer, was born #onthisday in 1833.
His watercolour design for a grand piano (1879-80) depicts the final moments of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus, leading his beloved wife out of the Underworld, is about to lose her forever.
Born #onthisday19833 Edward Burne-Jones English #Pre-Raphaelite #painter & #designer & leading star of new #Aesthetic Movement Helped rejuvenate Britain’s #stainedglass tradition Considered art’s value was as object of impassioned beauty triggering a sensual & romantic response
His birthday is unknown, but #OnThisDay in 1733, Thomas Hornsby was baptised.
Hornsby was an astronomer who suggested & petitioned for the construction of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory. This aquatint print by J. Bluck shows its beauty.
Its instruments are now in @HSMOxford!
#OnThisDay 1816 a combined @royalnavy & @kon_marine Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves.
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of a Woman (Mevrouw Bodolphe), 1643
#Hals #DutchBaroque
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of a Laughing Boy, ca. 1625
#Hals #DutchBaroque
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of Malle Babbe, ca. 1633
#Hals #DutchBaroque #MalleBabbe
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of Claes Duyst van Voorhout, ca. 1638
#Hals #DutchBaroque
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of Samuel Ampzing, 1630-2
#Hals #DutchBaroque
Died #OnThisDay in 1666: Dutch painter #FransHals (1580-1666)
Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa (1586-1643), 1626
#Hals #DutchBaroque
Artist Rufino Tamayo was born #OnThisDay in 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico. This is his 1932 canvas Las Musas de la Pintura (The Muses of Painting) @MUNALmx
Happy birthday, #DorotheaTanning! The American artist was born #onthisday in 1910. Pictured is her ethereal Aux environs de Paris (Paris and Vicinity), painted in 1962.
"My dreams are bristling with objects that relate to nothing in the dictionary," Tanning once explained.
25th of August: #OnThisDay in 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel on record. Webb set off from Dover in England and swam to Calais in France in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
Born #OnThisDay in 1552: Bolognese painter #LaviniaFontana (1552-1614)
Portrait of a Noblewoman, before 1614
#Fontana #BologneseArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1552: Bolognese painter #LaviniaFontana (1552-1614)
Portrait of a Girl, early 1580s
#Fontana #BologneseArt #WomenArtists #ChildrenInArt
#onthisday in 1900 in Sardinia was born Stanis Dessy, master in woodcutting depicting Sardinian miners, shepherds and farmers. He was one of the main contributors on the Art magazine L'Eroica
#OnThisDay 24th Aug 1814 British troops set the White House ablaze as they sack Washington D.C. thought to be retaliation for the Americans burning York, Canada, the year before.
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#OTD #WhiteHouse