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October 4: #OnThisDay in #arthistory...
Kazuki Takahashi was born in 1961. He is a #Japanese #manga #artist and game creator known for creating "Yu-Gi-Oh!"
Photo courtesy of @IMDb, "Yu-Gi-Oh!" created by Kazuki Takahashi.
#birthday
Born #OnThisDay in 1859: Italian painter #VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933)
Portrait of a Lady, 1911
#Corcos #ItalianArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1585: #AnnaofTyrol (1585-1618), Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary & Bohemia as spouse of #EmperorMatthias
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1612-22
#AnnavonÖsterreichTirol #Habsburg
#OnThisDay 4 October 1886 - Lennox Robinson, playwright, poet, and one-time @AbbeyTheatre manager, is born in Douglas, Co. #Cork.
[IMAGES: Lennox Robinson drawing by Tom Lalor, 1917; Photograph of Lennox Robinson, c. 1920-1958, Irish Personalities Photographic Collection]
October 3: #OnThisDay in #arthistory...
Robert Liefeld was born in 1967. He is an #American #comic artist, known for co-creating both #Deadpool and #Cable.
Photo courtesy of @Marvel, "Marvel Universe" by Rob Liefeld, 2019.
#birthday
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 124 years ago #onthisday
More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits & Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) https://t.co/OfpmCTiqoA #otd
Love Wendy😍😍😍
😘Beauty + Magazine on October’s Issue🤩🤩
#rvv #redvelvetsmtown #wendy #happy #hairstyles
#WendyOnThisDay #Wendy #웬디 #RedVelvet #레드벨벳 #redvelvet #fanart #art #drawing #illustrationartists #illustrations #art #artist #portrait #byraiwin
Buried #OnThisDay in 1617: English painter #IsaacOliver (ca. 1565-1617)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman in masque costume, before 1617
#EnglishArt #Elizabethan
Born #OnThisDay in 1666: #MarieAnnedeBourbon (1666-1739), Légitimée de France as daughter of #LouisXIV & #LouisedeLaVallière, Princess of Conti
Portrait attributed to #PierreGobert (1662-1744), ca. 1726
#Bourbon #BourbonConti
Today in #history: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/RTtRXCZuq1
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: #PaulI (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia
Portrait by #StepanShchukin (1754-1828), 1796-7
#PavelI #Па́велI #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: #PaulI (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia
Portrait as a child by #StefanoTorelli (1712-84), ca. 1765
#PavelI #Па́велI #Romanov #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1685: #CharlesVI (1685-1740), Holy Roman Emperor
Portrait by studio of #JacobvanSchuppen (1670-1751), 18th century
#KarlVI #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1685: #CharlesVI (1685-1740), Holy Roman Emperor
Portrait by #GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), ca. 1704-5
#KarlVI #Habsburg
September 30: #OnThisDay in #arthistory...
Anthony Green was born in 1939. He was an #English #realist #painter and #printmaker known for his #paintings representing his own life.
Photo courtesy of @Tate, "Casimir Dupont" by Anthony Green, 1980.
#birthday
Born #OnThisDay in 1794: German painter #CarlJosephBegas (1794-1854)
Portrait the Artist's son Karl Begas (1845-1916), 1850
#KarlBegas #Begas #GermanArt #ChildrenInArt
Alte Nationalgalerie
Born #OnThisDay in 1811: #AugustaofSaxeWeimarEisenach (1811-90), Queen of Prussia & German Empress as spouse of #WilhelmI
Portrait by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1861
#SaxeWeimarEisenach #Hohenzollern
Born #OnThisDay in 1811: #AugustaofSaxeWeimarEisenach (1811-90), Queen of Prussia & German Empress as spouse of #WilhelmI
Portrait by #BernhardPlockhorst (1825-1907), 1852
#SaxeWeimarEisenach #Hohenzollern
#OnThisDay in 480 BC, the Greek fleet defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
The victory at Salamis was vitally important to the Greek effort against the Persian invasion.
Given that it’s Nelson’s birthday (#OnThisDay in 1758) and my feed is full of romantic portraits of Britain’s greatest naval hero, I thought I’d go with Gillray’s slightly more irreverent take. (Image: V&A Museum)
#history #trafalgar #satire