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d. John Everett Millais (1829-1896). English artist & illustrator, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. "It doesn't matter how beautifully a thing is painted, it is no good if it isn't right."

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2018-08-14

C R W Nevinson was born in 1889. As an official war artist during the First World War he recorded his experiences at the Western Front in works like these prints https://t.co/UDDGGbebjQ

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2018-08-14

Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen premiered August 13th 1876 in Bayreuth Festspielhaus

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2018-08-13

Ardengo Soffici died in 1964. Although he stressed the fundamental importance of modern subject matter to Futurist painting, his own works addressed curiously neutral imagery such as landscapes, still life compositions and figure studies.

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2018-08-12

1499 - The first engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice clash, it is known as one of the first naval battle in history in which cannons were used on ships

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2018-08-12

Two years ago, we met Smoky Quartz! Three arms, two gems, and one kick-butt yo-yo! 💜 ❤️ 💛

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2018-08-09

in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology.

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2018-08-03

RT : Having missed his chance to escape to the United States, learned July 31, 1815 that the Brits were going to exile him to https://t.co/HQKrqfFkRH

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2018-08-03

Born in 1880—The first American painter to experiment with pure abstraction, Arthur Dove dispensed with representational subjects, creating patterns, rhythms, and color harmonies in order to communicate through form and color alone.

See five works

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2018-08-03

One of the great masters of 18th century painting, Thomas Gainsborough, died August 2 1788. Both of our Gainsborough portraits are currently on display in ‘Artist as a Thief’. Admire the exhibition before it closes on 19 August. https://t.co/iX7Vu8Rgca

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2018-08-02

"Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name."

—Jean Dubuffet, born in 1901

See seven works by Jean Dubuffet now on view in the Modern Wing.

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2018-08-01

Léon-Augusti Lhermitte was born in 1844! Vincent van Gogh regularly asked his brother Theo to send him reproductions of Lhermitte’s paintings for his collection. Haymaking, Lhermitte (1887)

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2018-07-31

Author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt was born in 1932

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2018-07-28

1815 Bonaparte arrived in in HMS BELLEROPHON after surrendering to its Captain in Rochefort. He proved quite the tourist attraction and would later be transferred to for transport to exile in https://t.co/KwkKZZANP2

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2018-07-26

Page from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died in 1601. More here: https://t.co/mHEGK9J0tx

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2018-07-24

in 1737 after gathering support from the wealthy and influential (including 25 dukes, 31 earls and 38 knights) Thomas Coram gave his petition for a Foundling Hospital to be built to the King’s Council.

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2018-07-21

1588 the Spanish Armada was spotted off The English Fleet under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake, sailed from and engaged the Armada the next day starting an epic chase/battle that led to a decisive victory for the English Navy.

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2018-07-20

We’d like to wish a happy birthday to Edgar Born in 1834 in Paris, more than half of Degas’s works depict dancers. https://t.co/SlESLf8Z37

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2018-07-19