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#ChronoTrigger for #SuperFamicom was released in Japan 26 years ago (March 11, 1995)
#TodayInGamingHistory #OnThisDay #RetroGaming #RetroGames #RetroGamer @redseraph
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1636: Brussels painter #LancelotVolders (1636-1723)
Portrait of Isabella Charlotte of Nassau-Dietz (1692-1757) & Sophia Hedwig of Nassau-Dietz (1690-1734), ca. 1700
#Volders #SouthernNetherlandishArt #ChildrenInArt
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1636: Brussels painter #LancelotVolders (1636-1723)
Portrait of Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz (1657-96), ca. 1690
#Volders #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1636: Brussels painter #LancelotVolders (1636-1723)
Portrait of Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688-1765), ca. 1710
#Volders #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1776: #LouiseofMecklenburgStrelitz (1776-1810), Queen of Prussia as spouse of King #FrederickWilliamIII
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1802
#MecklenburgStrelitz #Hohenzollern #WomenArtists
#OnThisDay 1870 architect Harold Brakspear was born. His restoration work included @bathabbey @Wndrcastle & the east front of the abbey at @LacockNT plus many #Wiltshire churches such as St Michael's #Aldbourne. He lived for many years in #Corsham. #ExploreYourArchive
Born #OnThisDay in 1948, Eric Fischl is an #American #painter, #sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman, & educator known for his depictions of American suburbia set in the 1970-80s.
📷 Credit: wikiart, "The Sheer Weight of History" by #EricFischl, 1982.
#birthday #OTD
Died #OnThisDay in 1809: Swedish painter #JonasForsslund (1754-1809)
Portrait of Johan Wilhelm Liljencrantz (1768-1816), 1795
#Forsslund #SwedishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1809: Swedish painter #JonasForsslund (1754-1809)
Portrait of Hedvig Elisabet Bohman (1729-1805), 1770s
#Forsslund #SwedishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1892: English author #VitaSackvilleWest, Lady Nicolson (1892-1962)
Portrait drawing by #WilliamRothenstein (1872-1945), 1925
#SackvilleWest #WomenAuthors #EnglishLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1856: English-born Australian painter #TomRoberts (1856-1931)
Portrait of William Windeyer (1834-97), 1892
#AustralianArt #HeidelbergSchool
Born #OnThisDay in 1856: English-born Australian painter #TomRoberts (1856-1931)
Portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts, née Williamson (1860-1928), 1910
#AustralianArt #HeidelbergSchool
Sir William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
#Art
#BornOnThisDay Piet Mondrian
Arboreal Metamorphosis
Farm building near irrigation ditch with farmer at work and woman doing the laundry, c. 1898-1902
Trees on the Gein Moonrise, 1907
Red Tree, c. 1908-10
The Flowering Apple Tree, 1912
#artoftheday #paintingoftheday
María Blanchard (1881–1932) #bornonthisday in #Santander, #Spain
#art #artist #artists #fineart #arthistory #spanishart #frenchart #cubism #modernart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painter #painting #paintings #portrait #portraits #botd
Born #OnThisDay in 1791: American painter #AnnaClaypoolePeale (1791-1878)
Portrait of Marianne Beckett, 1829
#WomenArtists #AmericanArt
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born #onthisday in 1475. The painter, sculptor, architect and poet is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period.
Ideal Head, 1520-1525
#TodayInMystery 1770
Soldiers fire into an armed mob outside the #Boston Custom House, ultimately killing six. The Massacre exacerbated the public outrage over #taxes and troop deployment that would culminate in #revolution.
#truecrime #history #todayinhistory #onthisday #otd
#OnThisDay 1770 British soldiers fired upon a crowd (of "saucy boys") in what became known as The Boston Massacre. Among the five civilians killed, was Patrick Carr from Ireland who died 9 days later. Carr forgave the soldiers & said they fired in self defence.
#Ireland #History
#AbrahamLincoln took the oath of office as president #OnThisDay in 1861. #AbeSays
Full speech: https://t.co/2uCn6OBIh3