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#onthisday in 1922 Michael Collins was shot dead in an ambush in West Cork https://t.co/NxzdAEYyX7
#OnThisDay 1485 Lancastrian contender for the crown Henry Tudor defeats Richard III Yorkist forces, concluding the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Bosworth, establishing the Tudor dynasty on the English throne. Books on the Wars of the Roses can be found shelved at 942
#OnThisDay 22 August 1620 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of a London fur dealer, at St Giles Church, Cripplegate. They had a devoted relationship & a family of 9 children (8 surviving infancy). Portraits in our collection. #17thCentury #OTD
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A range of Barber artworks are featured, including ‘The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles’ by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), born #OnThisDay 1872.
#OnThisDay 1940, the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Marxist theorist and former Red Army head, was assassinated in Mexico by an agent of Stalin. In this work, they are depicted as bloody snakes, battling for eggs symbolizing the future of communism.
Born #OnThisDay in 1725: French painter #JeanBaptisteGreuze (1725-1805)
Portrait of Nicolas-Pierre-Baptiste Anselme, called Baptiste aîné, ca. 1790
#Greuze #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait by #MartinArcherShee (1769-1850), ca. 1800
#Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait by #EdwardHarding (1755-1840)
#Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait as a boy with brother #Edward by #BenjaminWest (1738-1820), 1778
#Hanover #ChildrenInArt #BrothersInArt
#OnThisDay
32年前の1990年8月21日、アリス・イン・チェインズのファースト・アルバム『Facelift』がリリースされた。「We Die Young」( UK Vinyl 9位 ) 、「Man in the Box」(US Mainstreem Rock 18位) がヒット、全米アルバム・チャートは42位。
#AliceInChains
#OnThisDay 1996 ist
Rio Rhaiser
Sänger und Texter der Band "Ton, Sthaine, Scherben" verstorben.
Rio, du fehlst
<3
Died #OnThisDay in 1821: French painter #MarieDeniseVillers (1774-1821), née Lemoine
Portrait by the Artist's sister #MarieVictoireLemoine (1754-1820)
#Villers #FrenchArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1743: #JeanneBécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93), mistress of #LouisXV
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1782
#MadameduBarry #Bourbon
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Born #OnThisDay in 1743: #JeanneBécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93), mistress of #LouisXV
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1781
#MadameduBarry #Bourbon
A thread celebrating Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, born #OnThisDay in 1848, who clearly had a keen appreciation for the male form, and was a painter of #zaddies long before that word even existed (Self-Portrait, 1888-89; Man at His Bath, 1884)
#OnThisDay in 1883, the fashion designer Coco Chanel was born.
Coco Rules takes 30 of her best loved and lesser known quotes and translates them into modern and practical style rules to live by. Just like this one ❣️
Publishing 1 September. Pre-order: https://t.co/mycwHW3PxO
#OnThisDay 18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure. #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay in 2007, Phineas and Ferb premiered on Disney Channel! Happy 15th anniversary!
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Juliana Dorotea Schröder, née Henck (1733-92), ca. 1750
#Lundberg #SwedishArt