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Born #OnThisDay in 1745: Danish painter #JensJuel (1745-1802)
Self-portrait with his Wife Rosine Dørschel, 1791
#Juel #DanishArt
S. DARKO (the sequel to DONNIE DARKO) was first released #onthisday in 2009!
We don’t expect you to watch it or anything, we just wanted to respect the commitment to Sparkle Motion ✨
May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale was born
Newly graduated nurses utter an oath named after her called the Nightingale Oath, and celebrate International Nursing Day on her birthday every year. This is the story of the "Lady with the Lantern"⬇️🧵
#OnThisDay #NFTCommunity #NFTs
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born #OnThisDay in 1828. 🎂
We have many works by Rossetti on display in our exhibition Pre-Raphaelite Treasures: Drawings and Watercolours. Here are a few.
See them for yourself in the exhibition, running until 12 June: https://t.co/yVcp5rVOSK
Happy 6th Anniversary of The Loud House episode “Picture Perfect” 👍🏡🎉 it aired on @Nickelodeon in May 11, 2016 🏠🎊🙏 I Love how Lincoln hatches a plan to capture the "perfect" family photograph for his parents' anniversary gift. 😊📸 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1611 was the first recorded performance of The Winter’s Tale!
Shakespeare published this play in the First Folio of 1623 - then Augustus Leopold Egg painted Act IV, Scene 4 in 1845. Have you ever been #Inspired by Shakespeare?
#OnThisDay in 1915, Walter Dexter began this unfinished sketch, showing the iconic tower and roofline of Ely Cathedral with a row of houses in the foreground. The artist annotated the blank spaces carefully to finish the painting later, making a note of materials and colours.
Fought #OnThisDay the Battle of Grijó 10-11 May 1809.
The French force held the heights of Grijó, south of Porto.
Wellesley skirmished forward, with KGL, Portuguese, also Light Infantry & 95th Rifles from the Battalion of Detachments.
The pressure threatened the French flanks.
Happy 6th Anniversary of The Loud House episode “No Guts, No Glori” 💛🏡🎉💙 it aired on @Nickelodeon in May 10, 2016 💙🏠🎊💛 I love how Lincoln and nine of his sisters work as a team to thwart the tyranny they face with Lori as their babysitter. 😡 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay1994 #NelsonMandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected President of 🇿🇦
#KarimaBegum @VC_LdnMetArts created this portrait in response to our brief
#Mandela, juxtaposing Mandela the lawyer & "Accused#1" (ref.RivoniaTrial) framed in victor's laurels #OTD
Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker, died #OnThisDay in 1849.
Just after his 'Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji' series, Hokusai produced a set of ten prints, 'Large Flowers.' Some of these featured a ‘crawling creature’ (mushi, in Japanese).
Can you spot it?🔍👀
Released today in 1993,
Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish.
What's your favourite track?
#OnThisDay @blurofficial @Damonalbarn @grahamcoxon @alexjameshq @DaveRowntree #modernlifeisrubbish @StreetStephen
Kyffin Williams was born on this day in 1918. Born in Pwllfanogl, he is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century. Many of his works are housed here at the National Library.
Browse more of his works 👉https://t.co/p7LmnOvxS9
#OTD #OnThisDay
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ทวิตเตอร์เล่นยากจังงง #ArtistOnTwitter #OnThisDay #ArtistOnTwitter #artoftheday
#Music for a moment of peaceful joy
#BornOnThisDay Piotr Ilic Tchaikovsky
Waltz of Flowers (The Nutcracker)
https://t.co/FpelcF3F9j via @YouTube
(@dadagioia) #DanielaNel❤️
🖌Edgar Degas, Ballet - The Star (date unknown)
Musée d’Orsay
#OTD d. Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–10). Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. #Gothic #OnThisDay
Born #onthisday1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German #Expressionist #painter & #printmaker Driving force behind of Die Brücke The Bridge key group laying foundation of #Expressionism Human figure central to Kirchner's art & used flat areas of unbroken unmixed color & simplified forms
Today in #history: The Second Council of Constantinople begins. (553 CE) #OnThisDay
Karl Marx to his wife Jenny, from a letter of 1856 when he was travelling:
"Spatial separation from you suffices to make me instantly aware that time has done for my love just what the sun and the rain do for plants: made it grow".
Happy Birthday #Marx #marx204 born #onthisday