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Daily #Art - Day 11-28-18
Here's an illustrated tribute to #WilliamBlake (Nov 28, 1757 – Aug 12, 1827) for his 261th birthday, w/ a sketch based on his famous The Great #RedDragon & the Woman Clothed with the Sun Paintings.
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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786) #DonneInArte
William Blake born #otd in 1757
was a 19th century writer & artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers & artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and original thinker.
🎨Minerva Teichert
11月28日は英国の幻想的な画家、神秘主義詩人ウィリアム・ブレイク(1757-1827)の誕生日。仏の思想家ジョルジュ・バタイユが傾倒し、愛人だった作家コレット・ペニョ(ロール)の棺にブレイクの詩集『天国と地獄の結婚』が入れられたという。幻視者の眼差しと神話世界は未来を見越した豊饒の叡智の源泉。
Happy Birthday to William Blake #bornonthisday in 1757! 'The Ancient of Days', from our collection, was first painted by Blake in 1794. He repeatedly returned to it, redrawing & repainting it for the rest of his life. This one was coloured by Blake just before his death in 1827.
William Blake was born #OTD 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” by Scottish poet Robert Blair—one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.
The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
Death’s Door
By an Open Grave
#Art #WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Gothic
#TalDiaComoHoy de 1757 nació en #Londres el poeta, pintor y grabador romántico William Blake, considerado el mayor artista de la historia de #UK. Su pintura se basa en visiones fantásticas simbolistas #Arte
Giuseppe Castiglione
Kazaks offering horses in tribute to the Emperor Qianlong
China/Southern Italy (1757)
Ink and colors on paper; hanging scroll. 45.5 x 269 cm
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
Cut short by death. In 1826, William Blake (1757–1827) was commissioned to make a series of etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy. Poverty stricken he "is said to have spent one of the very last shillings he possessed on a pencil to continue sketching." Only 7 images were completed.
Additions this month: Laurie & Whittle's 1810 map showing #Regency developments in #London🌎Finely engraved 1757 map of #SouthAmerica by Covens & Mortier 🌏Fascinating map of the arena of the Great Game by Stanford,1912🌍Unusual #BritishEmpire map, c1942 🌎https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7
1757年9月8日。
ハンス・カール・フォン・ヴィンターフェルト死去。
プール・ル・メリットと黒鷲勲章受勲。フリードリヒ大王の腹心として参謀総長的な役割を演じる。
彼の死を知った大王は「私は我が敵の大軍に対して様々な対策を見つけるだろうが、彼のような者を再び得ることは少なかろう」と言う。
Mir Miran, here with his father Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal (r. 1757-60 & 1763-65), was struck dead by lightning as he lay in his tent, #OnThisDay, 3 July 1760
https://t.co/KZ7YGSMpRp
This took place almost exactly 3 years after Mir Miran had ordered the killing of Siraj-ud-Daula
Born #OnThisDay 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, #DuchessofDevonshire was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL #18thcentury
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Music on the Dunes
Hermann Seeger (1857-1920)
Private collection
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Mandolin Sonata D minor Allegro
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
https://t.co/KJGz90qMrA
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