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#ConoDiLuce #VentagliDiParole #ArteYArt #ArtLovers
#BornOnThisDay Edward Hopper 🎨
#22luglio1882
@karmendida @bgv_online @ceconomou56
Self- portrait
Gas, 1940
New Movies, 1939
Registered with the Patent Office #OnThisDay in 1875: One of William Morris’s most beloved wallpaper designs, the grand “Acanthus.”
Seen here: a sample of the paper and an original design drawing, both from @V_and_A.
#OTD
#artoftheday
"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are copy each other that they don't establish their own #identity as #artists."
Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) #bornonthisday in #Oregon
#art #artist #fineart #arthistory #contemporaryartist
Born #OnThisDay in 1751: #CarolineMatildaofGreatBritain (1751-75), Queen of Denmark & Norway as spouse of King #ChristianVII, granddaughter of King #GeorgeII
Portrait by #PederAls (1725-76), ca. 1767
#Hanover #Oldenburg
Rosenborg Slot
Born #OnThisDay in 1751: #CarolineMatildaofGreatBritain (1751-75), Queen of Denmark & Norway as spouse of King #ChristianVII, granddaughter of King #GeorgeII
Portrait with her sister Louisa by #FrancisCotes (1726-70), 1767
#Hanover #Oldenburg #SistersInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1414: #FrancescodellaRovere (1414-84), Pope as #SixtusIV
Portrait by #JustusvanGent (fl. 1460-80) & #PedroBerruguete (1450-1504), ca. 1473-5
#dellaRovere
#OnThisDay 1588 the Spanish Armada was spotted off #Plymouth The English Fleet under Lord Howard, Sir Francis Drake & Sir John Hawkins, sailed from Plymouth and engaged the Armada the next day starting an epic chase/battle that led to a decisive victory for the English Navy.
#OnThisDay 1249 Jacopo Tiepolo, Venetian Doge (1229-1249), first Venetian Duke of Crete & Podestà of Constantinople (twice) passed away and was buried in the church of San Zanipolo. #OTD #History #Venetian #medieval
July 19, 1897: Fire guts the McKay Flour Mill in New Edinburgh. 📰 Read more ➡️ https://t.co/NFlL9BN5El
#OnThisDay
[Image: Thomas Burrowes, “McKay’s Mills, New Edinburgh,” 1845, Archives of Ontario, C-1-0-0-0-4]
#OnThisDay July 19 1595, Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an insight that leads to his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe. #science #history #caricatures
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Spanish painter #JoaquínInza y Ainsa (1736-1811)
Portrait of Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain (1755-1817), ca. 1760-4
#Inza #SpanishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Spanish painter #JoaquínInza y Ainsa (1736-1811)
Portrait of Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752-88), ca. 1760
#Inza #SpanishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Spanish painter #JoaquínInza y Ainsa (1736-1811)
Portrait of #MariaAmaliaofSaxony (1724-60), Queen of Spain, ca. 1760
#Inza #SpanishArt
#OnThisDay 1919 a national day of peace was held to mark the end of World War 1. #Corsham Court hosted a children's sports day & refreshments. In 2019 the event was recreated as part of centenary celebrations. Here's the court on a non-festival day, c.1905
#ExploreYourArchive
Giacomo Balla, born #OnThisDay in 1871, was an #Italian #painter & key proponent of #Futurism. He depicted light, speed, & movement in his works.
📷 Credit: @googlearts, "Espansione dinamica + velocità (Dynamic expansion + speed)" by #GiacomoBalla, 1913.
#birthday #OTD
Born #onthisday1834 Edgar Degas French #impressionist #painter #sculptor #printmaker & #drawing famous 4 obsessive depiction ballet dancers One of seminal group #artists intrigued by challenge of capturing interplay of light in urban leisure scenes Édouard Manet & Mme. Manet …
#OnThisDay 13 years ago, July 18, 2008 - 'The Dark Knight' was released in theaters.
Batman: the animated series & The Dark Knight inspired artwork by https://t.co/tDL1EPvEsX
18 July 64 AD: The great fire of Rome broke out and destroyed much of the city.
Sketch by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#Nero #Emperor #Rome #Roman #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #history #OnThisDay #otd #TravisSimpkins #art #ArtHistory #archaeology #ArtMuseum #WAM #sketch
Rudolf II was also a notable patron of arts (especially of Northern Mannerist art), humanities & sciences.
Rudolf painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons, by one of his favourite artists Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1590–91).
#History #OTD #OnThisDay #Art
#OnThisDay 1801 Cdr Matthew Flinders sailed from
Portsmouth in HMS INVESTIGATOR charged with the task of circumnavigating Terra Australis. Which he did, naming many inlets, ports and features. He also pushed for the name #Australia to be used to define the land.