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Georges Bizet, French 19th Century composer famous for the opera Carmen, born #onthisday in 1838* Happy Birthday!
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso born #OnThisDay in 1881*
Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach*
Jean-Antoine Watteau was born #OnThisDay in 1684. His painting 'The Scale of Love' is on display in Lower Gallery E
Edgar Alan Poe who died #OnThisDay in 1849. #poe #alanpoe #portrait #illustration #ilustración #retratoPoe
Lucas Cranach the Younger was born #onthisday in 1515. Here’s his print of Martin Luther http://t.co/xsyWpiRc3a
"The reader became the book." -Wallace Stevens is born #OnThisDay in 1879*
·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*
Théodore Géricault was born #onthisday in 1791. This watercolour is from his time in London http://t.co/GLyXdmV4el
This mezzotint after Henry Fuseli, published #OnThisDay in 1782 "Belisane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma"
Louis XVI was born #onthisday in 1754. He met a gruesome fate – executed by guillotine in 1793 http://t.co/CV4Wl7DB3f
'Forest Scene' by French painter Narcisse-Virgile Diaz born #onthisday in 1807 @brooklynmuseum http://t.co/Aw2zJGvvXp
―George R.R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' is published by Bantam Spectra/US & Voyager Books/UK*
#OnThisDay in 1996*
This watercolor was painted #OnThisDay in 1803 by English landscape artist Cornelius Varley "A Wooded Lane near Ross"
Giorgio Vasari was born #onthisday in 1511. Here's one of his drawings http://t.co/oWNxhqhzXL
Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37* #OnThisDay 1890*
Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe, is born in Chicago #onthisday in 1888*
US artist Edward Hopper was born #onthisday in 1882. Here’s his etching of a couple on a train http://t.co/JFKAIlFuiY
Born #onthisday in 1593: artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Here’s a drawing of her hand http://t.co/cn9AaAy2Sy
According to Sherlock Holmes' stories, Dr. Watson born #onthisday 1852*
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died #OnThisDay 1930*
#OnThisDay 1536 Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded for incest and adultery.