# twitterstorians histsci happybirthday leonorfini surrealist mask cat bornonthisday drawing sketch illustration burnejones astronomer herschel saturn enceladus glasgowstyle francesmacdonald womensart glasgow otd napoleon musichall alfredhitchcock hitchcock birds fear portrait horror cake gesamtkunstwerk opera valkyri artist illustrated
画質 高画質

Alexander von Humboldt, scientist and philosopher, was born in 1769.

21 24
2017-09-14

Onthisday in 1793, the Reign of Terror began.

18 22
2017-09-05

Pygmalion and the Image series by Edward Burne-Jones, 1878. was born 1833 in Birmingham.

17 19
2017-08-28

Titian died in 1576. He was widely renowned as the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice: https://t.co/jKe6ln7auC

159 283
2017-08-27

Jean-Honoré Fragonard died in 1806. His painting, 'Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid’, is on display in Room 33.

56 127
2017-08-22

A Herald of Spring by Walter Crane, 1872. Walter Crane was born 15 August 1845.

8 12
2017-08-16

in 1845, English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane, member of the Arts & Crafts Movement https://t.co/KAIenjtNPM

10 26
2017-08-15

was born in 1769. Have you read his writings, collected by Balzac?
https://t.co/8zeNLfFtBt

0 1
2017-08-15

The wonderful Bransby Williams in 1870
The actor-managers many faces! In youth, as Bill Sykes & Sergeant Buzfuz!

2 5
2017-08-15

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

0 0
2017-08-13

British poet and William Blake died in 1827. He forged a unique style of colourfully ‘illuminated’ poems

5 4
2017-08-12

William Blake died in 1827. We have some stunning engravings from Blake in our archives, like this one of Job and Christ

12 26
2017-08-12

Mata Hari - Exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy in WW1 and executed by firing squad in France.

0 0
2017-08-08