moonlit art museum, ensemble stars!

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📢Your Museum, Your Say

Amgueddfa Cymru believes that education is a basic human right

We want to promote positive change through our programmes & inspire creativity & learning for life👶🧓

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The theme for today’s is Sport. Today we’re highlighting some of our favourite sports-related artworks from other UK collections, including Towner, The World Rugby Museum, The Health Board – NHS Tayside, and The Shire Hall Gallery.

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Born in 1799: Spanish painter (1799-1874)

Portrait of (1797-1818), in front of the Prado Museum, 1829

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Artwork: The Ancient of Days
Artist: William Blake
Date: 1794
Style: Symbolism
Series: ‘Europe a Prophecy’
Genre: Illustration
Media: Etching, Pen, Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.8 cm
Location: British Museum, London, UK

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Me, letting myself into an anatomical museum, iPad in hand: WHERE YOUR FOETAL SKULLS AT

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Seems like it could go either way today, Peggy Somerville's Green Parasols or John Sell Cotman's Stormy Weather? As a museum, we have to say we normally like rain in the summer hols, not sure our friends would agree. What about you - sun seeker or rain relisher?

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During our 2 year project we will begin to tackle a huge programme of repairs and restoration to the buildings across the museum, house and gardens. One of our first jobs is to fix the museum roof! We have spotted some leaks and need to ensure we work fast to protect collections.

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|Fem Sope|

In a museum, there's a famous image of a Victorian era couple named Yoongi and Hoseok, who used to escape a glamorous party just to be with each other.

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In 1591, Joris Hoefnagel was appointed court artist to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who commissioned him to add illuminations to the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a manuscript completed in the 1560s by the distinguished scribe Georg Bocskay. (The Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 20)

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Artwork: Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch)
Original Title: De Nachtwacht
Artist: Rembrandt
Date: 1642
Style: Baroque
Media: Oil, Canvas
Dimensions: 363 x 437 cm
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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moonlit art museum, ensemble stars!

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Queen Katherine:
- Spirits of peace, where are ye?are ye all gone,
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?

— Shakespeare
[Henry VIII, Act.IV, Scene 2]

🖌Johann Heinrich Füssli
Swiss, 1741-1825

— The Vision of Catherine of Aragon

1781,Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Take a summer tour / 20
Wine and painting : Before the Grape Harvest
WORKERS PRUNING THE VINES
Auguste Chabaud, 1925 - Musée Auguste Chabaud, Grameson, Provence, France
Find out more: https://t.co/0MEUp3YuRS
The Virtual Wine Museum, 840 artworks: https://t.co/IsUQeUF25k

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Take a summer tour / 17
Wine and painting : Wine as Remedy
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH Dr. ARRIETA, Francisco de Goya
1820 - Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Find out more: https://t.co/NMY25vzJqN
The Virtual Wine Museum, 840 artworks: https://t.co/IsUQeUF25k

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24 days until Displacement comes out! Today's tidbit is the Topaz Melon. Found out about it from a random Utah farm blog during my research, and they also sold seeds at the Topaz Museum, but still don't know much about it!

Preorder Displacement here! https://t.co/goFCsQYmGo

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Artwork: The Hunt in the Forest
Artist: Paolo Uccello
Date: c.1470
Style: Early Renaissance
Genre: Genre Painting
Media: Oil, Panel
Dimensions: 65 x 165 cm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

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Artwork: Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1508
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: Religious Painting
Media: Oil, Panel
Dimensions: 99 x 87 cm
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Stuffed giraffes on exhibit in the entrance of the old British Museum, London, 1800s

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