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Ottone Rosai was #bornonthisday in 1895 in Florence. See his work Man Waiting, 1919 @estorick http://t.co/O4UJiLfyBl
Delacroix born #onthisday in 1798 drew inspiration for this ptg. from his 1832 trip to Morocco http://t.co/rIBoELEfpb
Willem de Kooning was born #OnThisDay in 1904. Here is his painting 'Woman I' (1950-52) http://t.co/JsXU4q7yps
#OnThisDay in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company".
#OnThisDay in 1932 Sir Patrick Geddes died - today we have a researcher studying his valley diagram papers #archives
#OnThisDay in 1890, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.
#Onthisday in 1901 Andrew Carnegie offered New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries.
#Michelangelo was born #onthisday in 1475. Admire God's behind in one of this fresco from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
#HappyBirthday Winslow Homer born #OnThisDay 1836. "Right and Left" (1909) is culminating achievement of his career.
#OnThisDay in 1989, #DaleCooper entered Twin Peaks. #TwinPeaksDay starts with a #TwinPeaks #Marathon (Season 1)!
Michelangelo died #OnThisDay in 1564. Visit 'The Entombment' in room 8: http://t.co/rdmZU4gO0W
#OnThisDay in 1564, Galileo Galilei (physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, ...) was born in Pisa, Italy.
#OnThisDay in 1653, New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York).
#HappyBirthdayNY!
Polygraphiae (1518) by Johannes Trithemius. The first printed book on cryptography.
He was born #OnThisDay in 1462.
#OnThisDay 1813 in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published.
Madame de Pompadour was born #OnThisDay in 1721. See Drouais' painting of her in Room E: http://t.co/ao0IfeLcza
#HappyBirthday to French artist Maurice Utrillo, who was born #OnThisDay in 1883. "Marizy-Sainte-Geneviève," c. 1910
#HappyBirthday to Paul-César Helleu, born #OnThisDay in 1859. His wife and infant daughter: http://t.co/oifEzPH8qO