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William Blake, an important influence on Joyce, was born OTD in 1757. His hammer-wielding creator Los appears in Proteus and the famous line “Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?” echoes his Milton: “I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity."

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William Blake was born 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” (1743) by Scottish poet Robert Blair, one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.

The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
By an Open Grave

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28 novembre 1757: Naissance de William Blake, poète, peintre, graveur et «prophète» (❓) pré-romantique.

Fils de Protestants «dissidents», ses œuvres, d'une incroyable polyvalence, tendront exclusivement vers l'expression de sa spiritualité toute «idiosyncratique».

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Polymath William Blake b otd 1757!

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
"to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." ✒ Ingenious British poet and artist was born 28 November 1757.

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Born William Blake English & Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)

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2020-11-28

John Hill 🎨

Dwarf Evergreen Pharcolus, 1757 🌿
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2020-11-25

Louis Tocqué (b. 19.11.1696)
'Portrait of Ekaterina Golovkina' (1757)
Oil on canvas
51 x 43 cm

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2020-11-18

"Beauty and the Beast" is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757 story "Beauty and the Beast", written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

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フランソワ・ブーシェ『ウルカヌスの鍛冶場』1757年 ルーヴル美術館

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2020-10-26

Simbolismo
🎨William Blake (1757-1827)
🖼Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing

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2020-10-23

Rentré en France en octobre 1757, le Duc de Bourgogne est désarmé. Il le reste pendant un moment faute de pouvoir réunir un équipage suffisant. Il ne participe donc pas à la terrible défaite des Cardinaux en 1759.

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2020-10-20

Last one…“Time of the Day in Art” French painter Claude Joseph Vernet; “Night” (1757)

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2020-10-19

‘Dr Syntax and his Wife making an experiment in pneumatics’, Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) parties were popular in the 1820s and 1830s. The illustrations are by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), a British artist and caricaturist.

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2020-10-06

Our 'Artist of the Month' for October is the William Blake (1757-1827). As well as being a painter, Blake was also a famous poet and printmaker. He is considered an important figre in the arts of the Romantic Age. See a Blake painting up close here https://t.co/PDL7VWnA4m

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2020-10-02

François Boucher, né 29.IX.1703, "Vulcain présentant à Venus des armes pour Enée" (1757)
Alastair Laing, François Boucher, 1703-1770
📖 https://t.co/CTs3VdX9Jl

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2020-10-01

Born in 1757: (1757-1831), Duchess of Zweibrücken, daughter of Elector Frederick Christian

Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 19th century


Rathaus, Neuburg an der Donau

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2020-09-26

William Blake (1757–1827)
Job's Despair
https://t.co/PpLHA8Wvr2

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2020-09-20