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#ArtHistory 1890
Jeanne Mammen was #BornOnThisDay in #Berlin
“I have always wanted to be just a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others.”
#art #artist #fineart #modernart #paintings #painting #portrait #germanart #BOTD #OnThisDay #OTD #quotes
#ArtHistory 1819
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was #BornOnThisDay in what is now @Warsaw.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #paintings #painting #portrait #portraits #polishart #germanart #danishart #BOTD #OnThisDay #OTD
Illustration from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, who was born #OnThisDay in 1858 and in 1909 became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize. Read Jenny Watson on the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales: https://t.co/QSVOZsRbmk #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1759 Admiral Hawke defeated the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay during the 7 years war. This action ended French Naval superiority and prevented a planned invasion of 🇬🇧. @RoyalNavy
#OnThisDay in 1950, writer Jack Kerouac (28) married Joan Haverty, who gave birth to his only daughter, Jan Kerouac.
#OnThisDay 2008 The 4th Type 45 Destroyer, @HMSDragon is launched at Scotstoun on the Clyde. The ship was launched with Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon) of #wales painted on the bow. It was removed on 2011 but restored by 2016 following a campaign that sees it proudly worn today.
#ArtHistory 1930
Dame Elisabeth Frink was #bornonthisday in #Suffolk.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #britishart #figurativeart #sculpture #sculptor #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
The founder of french #impressionist #painting #monet was #BornOnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1995, the Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders episode “Love Struck” debuted. Watch it here: https://t.co/ZIrz5P0k3h
#jewelriders
#OnThisDay 1035 King Cnut died. Here he is at Dover, famously ordering the sea to turn back, before admitting 'I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this.' #StupidCnut
#ArtHistory 1935
Esther Mahlangu was #bornonthisday in #SouthAfrica.
#art #artists #artist #fineart #contemporaryart #paintings #painting #mural #africanart #folkart #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
#WW1OnThisDay Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 'Fragments from France', keeping-up morale with shared experiences..
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
#OnThisDay in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.
Explore this story at https://t.co/9zFy76ox2v
We're celebrating the Birthday of artist William Hogarth, who was #bornonthisday in 1697! Read @AestheticaMag & learn how artist David Hockney related to Hogarth's work, The Rake’s Progress, from our 2013 exhibition, Hockney to Hogarth. https://t.co/OcYbsBPkzm #PrintsofDarkness
#OnThisDay (9th November, or 18 Brumaire) in 1799 Napoleon launched a coup d'etat, seizing power in France. Napoleon greatly exercised British cartoonists. This 1802 drawing depicts the First Consul held up by pillars inscribed 'poison', 'duplicity', etc: https://t.co/mgp3AyNTWl
#OnThisDay was born the science communicator #CarlSagan, today he would be 84, we all remember his inspiring tv series “Cosmos”
🎂 #GameAnniversary #OnThisDay 🎂
Released in North America 🇺🇸 18 years ago today
Shenmue (Sega)
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#ArtHistory 1911
Àngeles Santos Torroella was #bornonthisday in #Catalonia.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #surrealart #surrealism #painting #paintings #spanishart #portrait #portraits #botd #onthisday #otd
#OnThisDay in 1993 📖
Ayrton Senna took his last GP win for @McLarenF1 at the Australian Grand Prix #F1