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Georgia O'Keeffe, the mother of American modernism, was born #OnThisDay in 1887.
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Started this over breakfast with the kids the other day, as part of my ongoing #bornonthisday collection, but only just got round to getting somewhat finished.
1891 - German general Erwin Rommel is born #OnThisDay. Known for his military skills and chivalry, he was implicated in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler.
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
See 28 paintings #NowOnView by Impressionist master Claude Monet—born #OnThisDay in 1840.
Account of a terrible explosion at Houghton Colliery, #onthisday 1850.
Born #OnThisDay in 1847, Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula. Bela Lugosi stars in this movie version from 1931 © Universal, courtesy Ronald Grant
Master of light and shadow Francisco de Zurbarán was baptised #onthisday in 1598. This finely rendered drawing was completed in chalk & pen
#OnThisDay Mary Stuart marries William of Orange. Both would be depicted on the ceiling of the Painted Hall https://t.co/IOm8ATgyrE
#bornonthisday John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, where would we be without his ingenuity or inability to leave the cards table
Annibale Carracci was born #OnThisDay in 1560. View ‘Christ to Saint Peter on the Appian Way’ in Room 37: https://t.co/7512OgWsgb
PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) premiered in Munich, West Germany 60 years ago #OnThisDay.
Do you know which famous film inspired Bacon's screaming faces? #bornonthisday in 1909
#OnThisDay 2006: #AceCombat X: Skies of Deception was released in Japan. #11thAnniversary
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso—born #OnThisDay in 1881. #NowOnView—https://t.co/L16aBMzyAp
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Jean Louis Forain—born #OnThisDay in 1852—exhibited with the Impressionists on the recommendation of his friend Edgar Degas. #NowOnView
Happy birthday to Super Mario Bros. 3, released for the Nintendo Famicom in Japan #OnThisDay in 1988.
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Paul Cézanne died #OnThisDay in 1906. His painting ‘Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)’ is on display in Room 41: https://t.co/YmKN6ptsAL
French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne died #onthisday in 1906. @GettyMuseum owns his "Still Life with Apples", 1893-94.