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Alfred Kubin was born 1877. Besides his own dark art, he also illustrated dark Romantic writers such as ETA Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe.

Death as a Horseman
Dream Animal
Mythical Animal
Sea Ghost

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Happy birthday, Jean-Paul Belmondo 🚬. I did of him & Alain Delon in BORSALINO a few months ago.

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121 today Orchid Committee (OC)!First meeting held in 1889.Since 1897 orchids that have been given awards by
the OC have had their portraits painted.Nellie Roberts was the Society's first orchid artist(1897-1953).One of her earliest works:Lycaste denningiana(1897).

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in 1806. Brunel designed the original Hungerford Suspension Bridge that opened in 1845. The chains from this bridge went on to be re-used in Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge! ©

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in 1614 died Doménikos Theotokópoulos, painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. Did you know that he's regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism? Do you have a favourite work? Tell us! https://t.co/W8DDDfekoG

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High Renaissance painter Raphael was born on this day in 1483. We're celebrating by looking at some of his best artwork: https://t.co/YRHxb0Pw9Q 🎂

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Born in 1849 Waterhouse's painting The Decameron hangs in the gallery Combining the Greek words for 10 & day The Decameron is a collection of 100 tales by the 14th century author Boccaccio. The group featured each recited one story a day for ten days. https://t.co/UDkI6LGhRw

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1722 - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, later recorded in Captain James Cook's voyages. This image comes from a later published edition digitised in full - link from our account at https://t.co/QzfGmiE0Ez

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French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born in 1732. painter and printmaker, he studied with Chardin and Boucher and he is known by his depictions of and veiled eroticism https://t.co/CmXvFprhFo

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Udo J. Keppler was born 1872. The first chromolithograph shows the spectres of alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, opium dens, crime, and even Death materializing from the tenement building.

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50 yrs ago, a cultural bombshell exploded. "2001: A Space Odyssey", written by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick, & preserved by the Library of Congress in the Nat'l Film Registry, broke new ground in content & visual effects. So pleased I was there to see that moment!

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in 1928, Gordie Howe was born at a farmhouse in Floral, Sask., where he grew up with eight siblings. https://t.co/USgAHgH6fO

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31 March 1671, Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of the future James II, dies aged 34.

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Sir William Lawrence Bragg was born 128 years ago

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in 1853 the great Vincent van Gogh was born. Happy birthday!


Sunflower by Basilius Besler in 1613

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