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Born #OnThisDay in 1634: Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634-96), daughter of #FrederikHendrik, Prince of Orange
Portrait by workshop of #JohannesMytens (ca. 1614-70), ca. 1665
#OrangeNassau
Geschiedkundige Vereniging Oranje-Nassau
Died #OnThisDay 1747 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, executed for his role in the '45 #Jacobite rebellion. George Selwyn was dubbed a barbarian for watching the event; he replied he 'had made amends' as he also went to see Lovat's head sewn back on again
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#OnThisDay 9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay in #History April 9th. 1634 - Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, was born. She had an interesting link to William the Silent. Check it @ https://t.co/U3EeKLN5Eu
Born #OnThisDay in 1605: #PhilipIV, King of Spain (1605-65)
Equestrian Portrait by #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669), ca. 1628-32
#FelipeIV #Habsburg #SouthernNetherlandishArt #HorsesInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1613: Dutch painter #GerritDou (1613-75)
Self-portrait, ca. 1665
#Dou #GerardDouw #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1613: Dutch painter #GerritDou
Self-portrait, 1647
#Dou #GerardDouw #DutchArt
#OnThisDay 19 years ago, April 7, 2001: the episode "Countdown" aired on television.
Directed by Kyung Won Lim
Written by Rich Fogel & @Paul_Dini
#BatmanBeyond
Born #OnThisDay 7Apr1772 F M Charles Fourier, a French philosopher, early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of #utopiansocialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, are mainstream in modern society. #18thc
#OnThisDay in 451, Metz was sacked by Attila and his Huns in the prelude to the Battle of Catalaunian Fields
El Greco died #OnThisDay in 1614. Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete (then ruled by Venice), he was known as ‘The Greek’ (El Greco). He trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style: https://t.co/b2BqanlntT
Born #onthisday1939 Brett Whiteley #artoftheday Australian #avantgarde #artist represented in major Australian gallery collections twice won Archibald, Wynne & Sulman prizes Signature works: Thebe’s Revenge Summer at Carcoar Remembering Lao Tse (1967) Woman In the Bath (1967)
#ArtoftheDay
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) #bornonthisday in #Lancashire
#art #artist #artists #fineart #surrealism #surreal #painter #painting #paintings #modernart #englishart #artistoftheday #paintingoftheday
#OnThisDay 1520, #Raphael died-We're honoured through 5 Decades research to have rediscovered 3 lost Masterpieces restituted for posterity-1512 Rome "The Judgement of Paris with 1512 Self-portrait as Paris"-1504 Florence"Hercules"-1513 Rome"Youth"with"Pentimenti"of 1513"Leonardo"
#ArtQuotes
“I never suffer from #loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.”
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) #BornOnThisDay in #Lancashire
#art #artist #artists #painting #paintings #fineart
#ArtQuotes
"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope."
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) #bornonthisday in #Lancashire.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #surrealism #surrealart #painter #painting #paintings #botd
#OnThisDay in 1987, The Cult released their 3rd album "Electric" marking a shift to a hard rock sound featuring killer tracks Wild Flower, Lil' Devil and Love Removal Machine. The album peaked at #4 in the UK, #3 in Canada and #38 in the US and is certified platinum #80smusic
Born & died #OnThisDay in 1483 & 1520: Italian painter & architect #RaffaelloSanzio da Urbino known as #Raphael
Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens (1500-1577) as vice empress of Naples, ca. 1518
#ItalianRenaissance #Raffaello500
"When one is painting one does not think." The Italian Renaissance master architect and painter #Raphael Sanzio was born #onthisday 1483. He also died on his birthday in 1520. #Art #Painting
Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://t.co/6YzMe99w4R #OTD