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🎨 #LouisGallait, Belgian historical painter, was #BOTD 9 May 1810. #Art #Painting
“Here powers failed my high imagination:
But by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,
By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
✒️ #Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, was #BOTD 9 May 1265. #Poetry #Literature
#BOTD 1916, feminist artist Sylvia Sleigh subverted historical masterpieces by swapping undressed women for nude male models, as in 'Philip Golub Reclining' (1971)
"Life has not ceased to be a riddle, nor has death lost its sting, and again man sighs amid moans of torment: "Wherefore?"" (Stanisław Przybyszewski, #BOTD 1868)
🎨 Jacek Maleczewski "Thanatos II" (1899)
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat
#OrsonWelles #BOTD
Necromancy / Horror Attack (1972)
Original German VHS release artwork by Enzo Sciotti
From my collection.
https://t.co/AdQ981mL6X
ルイス・バカロフ
「ラン・アンド・ラン」(『サマー・タイム・キラー』より)で、おはようございます。
#BOTD オリビア・ハッセー
🎨 #SandraFisher, American painter, was #BOTD 6 May 1947. #Art #Painting
"Man is in these deviations a strange problem; - Who of us at all times is true to himself?"
✒️ #FrançoisAndrieux, French playwright, was #BOTD 6 May 1759. #Theatre #Literature
'Not long ago' there lived in #Barnes #SW13 a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs called Pongo and Missus Pongo. #DodieSmith local legend and author of #TheHundredandOneDalmatians & #ICapturetheCastle #BOTD 1896
Ill: The One Hundred and One Dalmatians @StevenLenton 2017
From their first meeting, Andrew Wyeth was moved to paint Anna Christina Olson (#BOTD 1893) + her farm in Maine: “In the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul almost. To me, each window is a different part of Christina’s life.”
#BOTD: Happy birthday to the amazing @LiamRSharp, one of the most positive creators on here, not to mention his sterling work on The Unseen Jack Katz and the upcoming Starhenge, which is clearly that issue of Marvel Preview we all missed back in the day 🍻🥂
🎨 #CeciliaBeaux, American portrait painter, was #BOTD 1 May 1855. #Art #Painting
#botd 1948, Terry Pratchett
The comic fantasy book series Discworld - a flat planet balancing on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle - similar to Buddhist cosmology
#TerryPratchettDay #cosmology
#BOTD Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), prolific pulp purveyor & personal pal of HPL! One of the earliest authors to contribute to the #CthulhuMythos w his 1929 classick “Hounds of Tindalos.”
#PaperbacksfromHell
🦅 #JohnJamesAudubon, American ornithologist and painter (The Birds of America), was #BOTD 26 April 1785. #Art #Painting
🌟"PAF!"🌟
✒️🎨 #AlbertUderzo, French cartoonist and script writer (#Asterix #comicbooks), was #BOTD 25 April 1927. The Gaul was a major part of my childhood.