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Born #OnThisDay in 1844: Swedish painter #AmandaSidwall (1844-92)
Portrait of a Girl, 19th Century
#Sidwall #SwedishArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1844: Swedish painter #AmandaSidwall (1844-92)
Portrait of Mina Carlson-Bredberg, 1876
#Sidwall #SwedishArt #WomenArtists
"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD
Alex Katz was #bornonthisday in 1927. "Night" is the portrait of the artist's wife, Ada, in 1976.
Oil on canvas, 72 1/8 x 96 in. Funded by National Endowment for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Fund, 1981.13.
📆 #OnThisDay in 2006 @Manics James Dean Bradfield released his debut solo album The Great Western
Chart Position: #22
Happy Birthday, Alphonse Mucha!
https://t.co/qZaJbYxyHh
Alphonse Mucha – The Arts, 1898
#art #arthistory #ArtLovers #DonneInArte #painting #museum #culture #ArteYArt #ScrivoArte #DonneAmiche #Artwit #ontheblog #TweeterWorld #alphonsemucha #mucha #artnouveau #onthisday
Happy Birthday, Alphonse Mucha!
https://t.co/pKZQnUh7AL
Alphonse Mucha – The Arts, 1898
#art #arthistory #ArtLovers #DonneInArte #painting #museum #culture #ArteYArt #ScrivoArte #DonneAmiche #Artwit #ontheblog #TweeterWorld #alphonsemucha #mucha #artnouveau #onthisday
#thisdayinhorror | Dagon 🐙 | Released in the USA on home video on this day in 2002! “They're changing. Changing to go into the sea.”
Any fans?
#darkrifthorror #horror #horrormovies #horrorfan #hplovecraft #lovecraft #stuartgordon #innsmouth
#OTD 1607 Bohemian illustrator & engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was born in Prague. #History #OnThisDay
Panorama of Prague in 1636
@karmendida @BrindusaB1 @migliaccio31 @smarucci461 @Hakflak @dianadep1 @Matibo11 @PasqualeTotaro @BaroneZaza70 @erminiopasquat1 @ManuelaDora @marmelyr @ValerioLivia @Make_u2_happy @arteeblog @GerardLDonadoni @FlaminiMarina Buon pomeriggio, carissima @karmendida e tutti. Grazie infinite per questa splendida condivisione ❤
#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