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Meet Ernest Malinowski. The Ferrocarril Central Andino reaches up to 5,000 metres above sea level! He not only revolutionised Peru’s transport system but also fought for the country’s independence. #PolesFarAndWide #OnThisDay in 1899.
🌏 https://t.co/I8CJu2GOjE
#OnThisDay in 1971, the Leadbeater's Possum became Victoria's faunal emblem
John Leadbeater was @museumsvictoria’s first taxidermist. Professor McCoy had previously attempted to name a bird for him but was beaten to naming rights by John Gould!
#library #rarebooks #SciArt #book
Happy birthday Guy Maddin
(MY WINNIPEG, 2007) #guymaddin #film #cinema #movie #art #quote #BornOnThisDay
Thursday Meetings and a lot of work so... "On this day..." 2016, these goblins got into a horrible argument. What were they fighting about?
#OnThisDay #ThrowbackThursday
#KidLitArt #DailyDoodle
#ArtHistory 1872
Alice Bailly was #bornonthisday in #Geneva.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #cubism #fauvism #dada #swissart #painting #paintings #portrait #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
🎂 #GameAnniversary #OnThisDay 🎂
Released in Europe 🇪🇺 25 years ago today
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Sega)
https://t.co/9UvWiJXrIe
Zdzisław Beksiński was born #OnThisDay in 1929.
This brilliant painter & photographer still inspires people today with his dream-like bizarre visions of a haunted world...
👉 https://t.co/oFxXSBBBGj
@PLInst_NewYork @krkphotomonth @TPGallery @ModernaMuseet @postatMoMA
Principal Sam's Calendar
February 24
The birth date of Winslow Homer.
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
@DrPaulRSem
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz or 'Witkacy' was born #OnThisDay in 1885.
Some say the innovative writer, painter, photographer, philosopher, art theorist & dramaturg was the first hipster... ✌️
👉 https://t.co/WptDq2PF1q
@JANUSZCZAK @DailyArt @_TheWhitechapel @MuseumModernArt
#quoteoftheday
"Throw your #dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new #love, a new country."
—Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) #bornonthisday in #Neuilly.
#botd #onthisday #OTD #ThursdayThoughts #quotes #quotestoliveby
The brilliant painter & photographer Zdzisław Beksiński died tragically #OnThisDay in 2005.
Some say that his haunted & nightmarish paintings are cursed:
👉 https://t.co/HLk4msTzmI
@NYAcademyofArt @MuseumModernArt @Tate @PLInst_London
William Salesbury published 'A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe moche neccessary to all suche Welshemen as will spedly learne the englyshe tongue ...', one of the earliest Welsh language printed books #onthisday 1547 https://t.co/wzbciSdnnF
🎂 #GameAnniversary #OnThisDay 🎂
Hit Japanese 🇯🇵 arcades 32 years ago today
Contra (Konami)
https://t.co/C2FnIPq4rG
It’s Lee Marvin’s Birthday. Have some damn fun. #LeeMarvin #BornOnThisDay
Born #OnThisDay 1717 David Garrick, actor & impresario, a key figure in reviving interest in the plays of #Shakespeare
#twitterstorians
#18thcentury
Happy Birthday to American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, born #onthisday in 1848.
[#LouisComfortTiffany. "Flower, Fish and Fruit." 1885. BMA 1979.173]
Swedish painter Anders Zorn was born #OnThisDay in 1860. His studio was in a converted thirteenth-century log cabin, now the Zorn Museum, Mora. https://t.co/HmotWIp2UW
Michelangelo died #OnThisDay in 1564. Painter, on panel and in fresco, sculptor and architect, writer of sonnets, he was the first artist recognised by contemporaries as a genius. Come into Room 8 and see two unfinished paintings by him: https://t.co/0Eq5JmjJqn
Kihachi Okamoto 岡本喜八 (February 17, 1924 – February 19, 2005)
#KihachiOkamoto #岡本喜八 #bornonthisday
#ArtHistory 1921
Esther Bubley was #bornonthisday in #Wisconsin.
"I have found the human race. It is like finding one's family at last."
#photography #photooftheday #photoart #fineart #fineartphotography