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Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins, were born #onthisday in 1811. #twitterstorians
Collection artist #PaulNash, #surrealist #painter, #photographer, #writer and #designer, was born #onthisday in #London in 1889.
Images: Paul Nash, Landscape of the Megaliths & Nest of Wild Stones, 1937. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. © the artist's estate
#onthisday in 1858: A “Notice to #architects” was advertised for the design of the parliamentary complex at #Ottawa. The winning design for Centre Block was submitted by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones. #OttCity #CdnPoli #BeautifulCanada
Trovò nel graffitismo nella città di New York la propria identità artistica definitiva: Keith Haring nasceva oggi nel 1958.
#art #artlovers #accaddeoggi #4maggio #onthisday
Demeter Mourning for Persephone (1906)
by Evelyn de Morgan (1855-2 May 1919)
#Art #PreRaphaelite #OnThisDay
Born #OnThisDay 1859 Jerome K Jerome at Bradford Street, #Walsall #Staffordshire novelist and playwright famous for his ‘Three Men in a Boat’ novel #wsl @WalsallLHCentre
The Marvel Cinematic Universe began 10 years ago #OnThisDay when IRON MAN (dir. Jon Favreau, 2008) was released. Which of the MCU films is your favourite? #MarvelStudios #InfinityWars #AvengersInfinintyWar
"One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice." Claude Monet < Monet on his studio-boat, painted by Édouard Manet who died #OnThisDay 1883 < #art #Impressionism
Best known for her 1792 proto-feminist work ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, writer Mary Wollstonecraft was born #onthisday in 1759
The first #guillotine execution (of highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier) took place in #Paris #onthisday 25 April 1792 https://t.co/OZVM5xlMOn #otd
#onthisday Lyubov Popova was born in 1889. She was one of the first female pioneers of Cubo-Futurism and her paintings show a development from this to Suprematism and Constructivism.
Air+Man+Space, 1912
#lyubovpopova #popova #suprematism #cubofuturism #cubism #futurism
#ThisDayInMystery 1922
Artist, poet & occultist Marjorie Cameron was #BornOnThisDay in #Iowa.
“Into the blazing vault of the night of nights, we go forth as light.
Dark star I seek you in all the endless rooms of the #universe.”
#BOTD #OnThisDay #OTD #occult #poem #poetry #weird
The sun rises over a dramatic scene, with boats churning in the choppy waves, in this painting by J. M. W. Turner, born #onthisday in 1808.
Read more: https://t.co/Ww6YXdMVM5
In honour of JMW Turner, who was (probably) born #OnThisDay 1775, I must share the fantastic digitalised images held at @Tate commissioned by Samuel Rogers for the poem 'Italy'. Ruskin claimed the material beauty of Rogers's 'Italy' inspired his career https://t.co/jnNRm5bp3z
Died #OnThisDay 23Apr1829 The Irish #actress Elizabeth Farren made her London debut in 1777 as Kate Hardcastle in Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer." She was at the height of her career when the first picture was exhibited in 1790.
PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:
April 23
Today is the day celebrated as the birthday of William Shakespeare.
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
Musical details from works by Paolo Veronese (d #otd 1588) #OnThisDay #earlymusic #renaissance #organ #lute #lyre #violin
"The Artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." Leonardo Da Vinci was #bornonthisday in 1452 - what's your favourite work of his?
Are the tulips out in the parks & gardens near you? Morris’s Tulip design for printed cotton was registered #onthisday 1875. A suitably apt time of year.