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Died #OnThisDay in 1856: #French #Romantic #painter Théodore #Chassériau (1819-56)
#Portrait #drawing of Madame Ravaisson, 1846
#ThéodoreChassériau #FrenchArt #Portraiture #Romanticism
#METMuseum
#OnThisDay 19 years ago, October 7, 2000: the episode "Big Time" aired on television.
Directed by @JTuckerAnimator
Story by @tomruegger & @b0bg00dman
#BatmanBeyond
#OnThisDay in 1895, actor and entertainer Buster Keaton was born.
https://t.co/b0o045KFAG
#ArtHistory 1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was #bornonthisday in what is now #Nunavut
"There is no word for #art [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."
#artist #artists #fineart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #illustration #botd #Canada
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 123 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/OqsHCIBeYv
#ArtHistory 1893
#Bauhaus #artist Marianne Brandt was #bornonthisday in #Chemnitz.
#art #artists #fineart #modernart #kunst #collage #photography #photoart #bnwphotography #germanart #design #DiscoverHer #botd #onthisday #otd
Today in #history: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/eGngpKrLsE
Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI #otd #onthisday
Remembering one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Miles Davis. Died on this day, 28 September 1991. Read more at https://t.co/NK7qPEaAPQ #Memoria #OnThisDay
#OnthisDay 1810 Viscount Wellington fought and won the Battle of Bussaco. It was the 1st decisive battle that included the reconstructed Portugese Army both as intergrated Brigades and a independent Division, against the devastating French invasion. 🇵🇹
#OTD #onthisdayinhistory
#Onthisday 1799 Second Battle of Zurich was fought between #France led by André Masséna and allied forces of #Russia and Austria led by Alexander Korsakov(who was expecting aid from Suvorov). The French won forcing the Russians to withdraw from the Second Coalition. #OTD #History
#Beatles fans! Check out these cute parodies of John, Paul, George & Ringo on #AbbeyRoad, released #OnThisDayinHistory in 1969.
Shop Beatles Art: https://t.co/KYuOgAHjbc
🎨 - “Come Together” by Amit Shimoni
“Abbey” by CHAN-CHAN
“Puggy Road” & “Sloth Abbey Road” by Big Nose Work
#ArtHistory 1926
Sonia Gechtoff was #bornonthisday in #Philadelphia.
"I was deliberately introducing the female figure to a lot of things...I was really trying to do forms of self-portraits."
#artist #modernart #fineart #paintings #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #americanart
Famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko was born on this day in 1903.
https://t.co/XVxrWaZpzg
#bornonthisday #markrothko
Thread:
#OnThisDay, Sept 25, 1839:
The ships #HMSErebus and #HMSTerror of the #RossExpedition set sail on their incredible voyage to #Antarctica. Captains #JamesClarkRoss & #FrancisCrozier would make discoveries in oceanography, magnetism, geography, botany, zoology and more.
#Onthisday Arthur Wellesley's army won a decisive victory at #Assaye
Hugely outnumbered, using the ground (a trademark) AW led from the front, directing aggressive flanking attacks.
Later on when asked his greatest victory Wellington replied "ASSAYE"
https://t.co/yaQK8UManC #otd
#OnThisDay @themichaelowen scored the injury-time winner against @ManCity.
and went on to solidify his status with "if you can't beat them, join them" after @ManUtd secured the Premier League the season after.
#smsports #sportsedits #mufc #michaelowen
#OnThisDay 1693 the first HMS MEDWAY was launched in the @RoyalNavy Dockyard at #Sheerness Today the name is still strong in the RN in it’s newest warship the River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel @HMS_Medway who is the 11th ship to carry the name.
#onthisday in 1806 Aberdeen Artist William Dyce was born
Beatrice, 1859 by William Dyce will hang in Gallery 18 of the newly refurbished Art Gallery, reopening 2 November!
Find out more:
https://t.co/2sTSVTLN5L