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Antonio Stradivari, #violin maker, died #onthisday in 1737. #twitterstorians
“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”
—Paul Klee, born #OnThisDay in 1879
See six works #NowOnView in Modern Art: https://t.co/MwJquOVizs
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Joseph Grimaldi, clown and comedian, was born #onthisday in 1778. #twitterstorians #theatre
Scan of yesterdays #bornonthisday breakfast #sketch of @MillaJovovich
Remedios Varo (1908-1963) ... El Flautista (the Flutist), oil and mother of pearl on masonite , 1955 #RemediosVaro #art #artontwitter #bornonthisday #SURREALISM
Jane Austen was born #OnThisDay 16 December 1775. Discover the connection between Jane and 'An Infamous Mistress' in our guest post for @SueWilkesauthor.
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#otd Happy Birthday Ludwig Van Beethoven! #beethoven #illustration #rosiebrooks #christmasshopping #onthisday #ludwigvanbeethoven
Born #onthisday, Russian avant-garde painter #WassilyKandinsky, famed for producing one of the first purely abstract pieces. Shop Kandinsky inspired art online now to bring a splash of colour into your home > https://t.co/0YY28y5TV1
Born #onthisday, Russian avant-garde painter #WassilyKandinsky, famed for producing one of the first purely abstract pieces. Shop Kandinsky inspired art online now to bring a splash of colour into your home > https://t.co/ZHFrrOnKxL
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ – Jane Austen was born #onthisday in 1775. These illustrations to Pride and Prejudice were made by Helen Binyon in the 1930s
#WassilyKandinsky
#BornOnThisDay #OnThisDay
(16.12.1866 - 13.12.1944)
"Komposition IV", 1911
"Komposition VIII", 1923
"Komposition X", 1939
Happy belated birthday Jane Birkin 🎂. Painting I finished yesterday. Many of her films can be found on @Fandor #JaneBirkin #OnThisDay #BornOnThisDay #Painting #Art #French #Film
This fashionable portrait by #GeorgeRomney, born #onthisday in 1734, achieved a world-record price for any work of art when auctioned in London in 1913.
#OnThisDay in 1908, Boule presented his study on the La Chapelle Neanderthal to Académie des Sciences. He confirmed that Neanderthals were a separate species of human. https://t.co/prjnIXOcCB
#OnThisDay in 1624 Lord Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral and C-in-C of the English Fleet during the Spanish Armada in 1588, died.@RoyalNavy @AdmPhilipJones
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was born #onthisday in 1863. His painting "Starry Night" represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo where Edvard Munch spent his summers from the 1880s onward. https://t.co/FjCZE8og7L
#OnThisDay in 1863 Edvard Munch was born. Check out the best places to see his work via @CultureTrip #otd #EdvardMunch https://t.co/kZQVYzBK5U
Norwegian artist, #EdvardMunch was born #onthisday in 1863. Here is his woodcut 'Two People - the Lonely Ones' (1899) - inspired by the hopeless love of his friend, Jappe Nilssen, for Oda, the wife of the painter Christian Krohg. https://t.co/0hT4PpHHQt
Anthony van Dyck died #OnThisDay in 1641. See his imposing double portrait of 'Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart' in Room 21: https://t.co/rRqWf5gDx6
Did you know that #Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff was born #OnThisDay in 1899? Are you a Babar fan?