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Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1917, was born #OnThisDay in 1857
#onthisday 30th May 1814 Russian anarchist Mikhail Bukunin was born! #politics
American #artist Abbott Handerson Thayer died #OnThisDay in 1921.
Pic: "Angel" @americanart
#art #painting
Austrian #artist Hans Makart was born #OnThisDay in 1840.
Pic: "Abundantia" at the @MuseeOrsay
#art #painter
#onthisday in 1865 these two and 151 others sailed on the Mimosa to https://t.co/UpXgpYxCsM #Patagonia
#Onthisday: 115th marriage #anniversary of #artists Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn.
#OnThisDay in 1873 "The Snow Maiden" by Alexander Ostrovsky was premiered
Vasily Perov, "Melting Snow Maiden", 1879
#OnThisDay 22 May 1826: HMS Beagle leaves Plymouth on 1st voyage, under Capt Pringle Stokes https://t.co/NFvQW5x3Sp
American #artist Mary Cassatt was born #OnThisDay in 1844.
pic: "The Tea" at the @mfaboston #art #impressionism
#OnThisDay in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, was born in Scotland.
#OnThisDay 20 May 1845: John Franklin sets out on disastrous expedition to find NW Passage https://t.co/vjBScwy0Uu
#OnThisDay 17 May 1805: Surgeons & Physicians in Royal Navy given their own dress & undress uniforms
#Onthisday in 1510 #Botticelli died. Browse his #illustrations of Dante's #DivineComedy https://t.co/I7tKAdyPIs
Charles Perrault, who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, died #OnThisDay in 1703.
#artist Sebastiano Ricci died #OnThisDay in 1734
Pic: "The Flight into Egypt" @ChatsworthHouse
#art #baroque
Nowegian #artist Knud Bergslien was born #OnThisDay in 1827.
Pic: "St. Johns Evening" at the @Nasjonalbibl
#art
#artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born #OnThisDay in 1828.
Pic: "The Bower Meadow" at the @mcrartgallery
#art
#onthisday #Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in 1828 https://t.co/Em11cNPksx