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'Les jeux, les fêtes, les plaisirs, sont les appâts de la servitude, et deviennent bientôt le prix de la liberté, les instruments de la tyrannie.'
Les Chaînes de l'esclavage
Jean-Paul Marat
btd 1773 d 1793
'The death of Marat '
Edward Munch
1907 #art
Academic Study.Attributed to Jean-Robert Ango.(?-c.1773).c.1773. Seated man his left arm raised. Red chalk.
@StrawberryShif1 i feel like Mars who hasn’t had an emotion since 1773 would be a interesting fusion with anxiety king Jason owo
Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Self-portrait, ca. 1773
#DanceHolland
More arse-related laughs via a pun on Goldsmith's play 'She Stoops to Conquer (1773) as Lady Hertford and the Prince Regent experience an embarrassing double blow-out whilst trying to retrieve her fallen fan. Luckily Lord Yarmouth is there to save the day, #London March 11th 1812
RT @shannonselin: Giuseppina Grassini, one of the most celebrated Italian #opera singers of her time, was born on April 18, 1773. She was the mistress of both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington https://t.co/s9MbOItLnN #napoleonic #onthisday
Giuseppina Grassini, one of the most celebrated Italian #opera singers of her time, was born on April 18, 1773. She was the mistress of both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington https://t.co/uTW8WvYG3z #napoleonic #onthisday
18 avril 1773: naissance de Giuseppina Grassini, chanteuse d'opéra italienne.
➡️Giuseppina Grassini dans le rôle de Zaïre, 1805, par Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842).
➡️Giuseppina Grassini, par Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist.
Born #OnThisDay in 1741: American painter #CharlesWillsonPeale (1741-1827)
Portrait of the Peale Family, 1773-1809
#Peale #AmericanArt
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris), 1773.
#AmericanArt #Realism
#CapabilityBrown dined @alnwickcastle 1770 when visiting @KirkharleCourt & #Rothley. His foremen worked with large teams of gardeners & labourers there. In 1773 Thomas Biesley lead a team of 78 men, while the duke’s gardener Thomas Call worked in #HulnePark with a further 60.
https://t.co/73Pdmoa031
🎼Frederick II the Great (1712-1786)
🎼J.J.Quantz (1697-1773)
🎼C.H.Graun (1704-1759)
🎼Ch.Schaffrath (1709-1763)
🎼C.P.E.Bach (1714-1788)
🎵Symphony,Flute Concerto,Sinfonia,Overture e Violoncello Concerto
🎨Johan Christian Dahl (Dresden at Full Moon)
In Germany, Auriculas are a symbol of home. Bear's Ear Primula, Magdalena Bouchard, ca. 1773–1793. From Hortus Romanus, vol. 1, Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library. #FolkloreThursday #WomensArt #HerNaturalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Died #OnThisDay in 1818: French painter #AnneVallayerCoster (1744-1818)
Portrait of a violinist, 1773
#VallayerCoster #WomenArtists
Paintings like the Archers & Three Ladies are based on compositions found in Classical sculpture. The Archers (1769), Duchess of Leinster (1770s), Omai (1776) & Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen (1773)
23 février 1792: mort de Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792),
peintre, graveur britannique.
➡️Joshua Reynolds, Autoportrait à la main en visière, 1748.
➡️Les Sœurs Montgomery, 1773.
@GardensOfChina 6/12 Blake’s project was left unfinished at his early death in 1773 but related manuscripts & paintings kept in several archives (the attached images are kept @oak_spring) allow for unprecedented information on Chinese go-betweens that helped British naturalists #BSHSGlobalHist