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Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born in 1732. This lavishly elegant styled painting illustrates an episode from the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche. It's a tale of love, jealousy and wrecked happiness. Uncover the family drama in Room 33: https://t.co/U5Ki3rLwDL

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"Troubles with the circulation of ideas produce all of literature, all of art, all playing, all of civilisation"

illustrations by

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2018-04-04

1751 Thomas Coram died. It was thanks to him that after 17 years of tireless campaigning, he finally received a Royal Charter from King George II in 1739 enabling him to establish his Foundling Hospital to care for & educate some of London’s most vulnerable inhabitants

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Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael was born on this day in 1483.

What's your favourite of Raphael’s work?

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2018-03-28

to artist Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (Praise Be His Name), who was born March 26, 1948. https://t.co/3cZ5BqmQU5

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2018-03-26

It was in 1655, the Dutch mathematician & scientist Christiaan Huygens, discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan https://t.co/nauv8cm4cD

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2018-03-26

in 1778, flying pioneer Sophie Blanchard was born.

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2018-03-25

Born in 1861, music hall comedian and singer Albert Chevalier, who specialised in cockney songs based on his time as a costermonger in Victorian London

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2018-03-21

Have you seen this painting?

The Concert is one of 13 works that went missing in 1990. We continue to investigate the theft today. If you have info or want to learn more, please visit https://t.co/oldp8FbhqD

Image: Johannes Vermeer, The Concert, 1663 - 1666.

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2018-03-18

in 1982, the stellar self titled debut album by supergroup Asia was released. Featuring John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer and Steve Howe, it was the album of 1982 in the US (selling 4 million copies) and featured smash hit Heat of The Moment.

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A Happy Gerda Wegener at rue de Lille, Paris, Photo by Lili Elbe c. 1917
and another of her illustrations for Les Delassements dEros published in 1925

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* Gerda Wegener March 15, 1886, Haderslev Municipality, Denmark 🌹

Plates from Les Délassements d’Eros, published in 1925

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d. Walter Crane (1845-1915). English artist & book illustrator.

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Johan Zoffany, German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, was born in 1733 - here is his work 'David Garrick and his wife by his Temple to Shakespeare', painted in 1762 and now part of the collection

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Some Seaside Fashions for 1863. Cartoon by John Leech for Punch's Pocket Book.
William Henry Perkin, chemist responsible for the first mass-produced synthetic dyes born 1838.

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my two favourite portraits of Gregory the Great for his feast-day (he died in 604):
1. the 10thC miniature by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii : Trier, Stadtbibliothek MS 171/1626
2. the 10thC relief now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in

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in 1977, the rings of Uranus were discovered by astronomers James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. (NASA art from the same year by Rick Guidice.)

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2018-03-11

b. William Etty (England, 1787-1849), artist. Paintings inc. The World Before the Flood (1828), The Destroying Angel (1832), The Sirens and Ulysses (1837, restored 2010). Also - photo from 1844 - William (right) & his brother & niece.

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2018-03-11

Happy Birthday to born in 1932. View Uglow's in the group-exhibition 'All Too Human' until 27 August.

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2018-03-10