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Happy birthday to Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, who was in 1577. You can see his painting 'The Virgin and Child and the Child Baptist' at the Walker in room 3. https://t.co/ar7HG6NLzL

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2018-06-29

Born on this day in 1577, the painter Peter Paul Rubens. Read about this virtuoso artist here: https://t.co/YWyVpIwHmh

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2018-06-28

to who was in 1895 (making this his 123rd birthday!) This is 'The Shoe-Black' from 1955. See more of his Collection works here: https://t.co/HLdXulAZZL Image: © Estate of John David Roberts, courtesy of the William Roberts Society

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2018-06-05

1922
Artist, poet & occultist Marjorie Cameron was in
“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

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2018-04-23

"The Artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." Leonardo Da Vinci was in 1452 - what's your favourite work of his?

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2018-04-15

Pierre Molinier, April 13, 1900, Agen, France

image: Molinier, Temps de la Mort 1962

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2018-04-14

Gustave Moreau, April 6, 1826, Paris, France

"I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it"

image: The Birth of Venus, oil on panel 1866

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2018-04-07

Leonora Carrington,April 6, 1917, Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom

''am armed with madness for a long journey.''


image:Samhain Skin, 1975

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2018-04-06



"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

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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2018-03-16

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

Plates from Les Délassements d’Eros, published in 1925

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2018-03-16