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Francisco #Goya (born #onthisday 1746–1828) - The Flower Girls or Spring, 1786-1787
Born #OnThisDay in 1880: English painter #OswaldBirley (1880-1952)
Portrait of Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare (1851-1929), 1929
#Birley #BritishArt
#Music
#BornOnThisDay Johann Sebastian Bach
Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor BWV 1052
https://t.co/Tegtkp4qnT via @YouTube
“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🇺🇸
#OnThisDay 1732 Franz Joseph #Haydn, Austrian #composer, born in Vienna, Austria
Sir Benjamin Baker was born #onthisday 1840. #Forth Bridge, Aswan Dam and London Metropolitan Railway. He also designed the boat which transported Cleopatra's needle to London.
"I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone." ✒ Great Russian writer #NikolaiGogol was born #onthisday 31 March 1809.
Happy Birthday to one of the most beloved artists in our collection! #VincentVanGogh was #bornonthisday 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.
"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) 🎨
Born #OnThisDay Vincent Van Gogh (in 1853) and Francisco Goya (in 1746) - some of my favourite works by these two amazing artists. Gelukkige Verjaardag, Vincent! 🇳🇱 ¡Feliz Cumpleaños Francisco! 🇪🇸 #Art #VincentVanGogh #VanGogh #FranciscoGoya #Goya2021 #Goya #ArtistsBirthdays 🎂
Born #OnThisDay in 1844: French poet #PaulVerlaine (1844-96)
Photographic portrait by #WillemWitsen (1860-1923), 1892
#Verlaine #FrenchLiterature
"she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction" [Morning Chronicle]: died at 3.30am #OnThisDay 1806, Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
#HistParl #twitterstorians #celebrity
Born on this day (1943-2019): Dennis Etchison.
Here's the UK edition of Darkside (Futura, 1987).
#horror #BornOnThisDay
#OnThisDay (29th March) in 1996, the final episode of the Mobile Suit #GundamWing TV series was broadcast in Japan.
#OTD in 1897, the sale of bibliophile Baron Jérôme Pichon’s collection began. Lasting 2 weeks, it brought in 576,945 Francs.
On this first day, paintings by the likes of #Fragonard, #Boucher and #VanDyck were sold.
#OnThisDayInArtHistory
Born #OnThisDay in 1609: Dutch painter #KarelvanMander III (1609-70)
Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter (1607-76), 1656
#vanMander #DutchBaroque #FamilyPortraits
According to the 8th century forgery - the 'Donation of Constantine', #OnThisDay in 315, Constantine I transferred authority over Rome and the western Roman Empire to Pope Sylvester I
#OnThisDay in 1857, Mangal Pandey, a sepoy in the Bengal Army, fired the first shots in what would become known as the Indian Rebellion (also called the Mutiny or the First War of Independence).
#OnThisDay 29 March 1644 was the Battle of Cheriton (Alresford) in Hampshire. Sir William Waller defeated Lord Hopton and Lord Forth, ending the Royalist advance in the south-east. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
Released in2 #Target stores #onthisday in 2009 - the LotusFlower & MPLSound albums - what are your favourite tracks from each of these albums? #Prince #Prince4Ever #MPLSound #LotusFlower #LotusFlow3r
Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751-1834), 1832
#TheAncients #EnglishArt