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It’s Pontormo’s birthday (#BOTD in 1494), as good an excuse as any to share his magnificent Deposition, in Florence’s Santa Felicita, and his thirst trap selfie.

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2021-05-25

Happy 68th Birthday to Irish Born actor in 1953

Here are the Brosnan era Bond Posters from my project last year.

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2021-05-17

Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980)

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2021-05-17

'The Quest, from Historia de Don Quichotte da la Mancha' (1980).
Salvador Dali (11th May 1904 - 23rd January 1989).

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2021-05-11

Salvador Dalí
May 11, 1904

"You could almost reconstruct the inner landscapes of the 20th century from Dali’s painting The Persistence of Memory..."

— J G Ballard

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2021-05-11

Peter Benchley (1940-2006) In 1974 Readers Digest Condensed Books published an abridged edition of with wonderful illustrations by Stanley Galli

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2021-05-09

BOTD 1737 Historian Edward Gibbon - Putney, England

Best known for The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, (6 vol) inspired by observing a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome

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2021-05-08

aka "The Hurricane" was .
An extraordinary event occurred when Carter, a boxer, after being arrested and wrongly convicted of murder, was eventually released from prison after wrote a popular song about his plight.

Hurricane https://t.co/1XE5dEB1oW

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2021-05-06

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リタ・クーリッジ
「オール・タイム・ハイ」で
おはようございます。

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2021-05-01

Frank Auerbach

Self-portrait 1958
To the Studios, 1990–1

https://t.co/5sTGSiDGuT

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2021-04-29

"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all." (Camus)

Some of Theodor Kittelsen's (#BOTD 1857) haunting illustrations of Svartedauen (Black Death), featuring Pesta, the personified plague.

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2021-04-28

Born this Day: Tomu Uchida, visionary director of BLOODY SPEAR AT MOUNT FUJI and THE MAD FOX

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2021-04-27

Bridget Riley
April 24, 1931

“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things — you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”

https://t.co/3ZpYEB7CwS

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2021-04-25

Willem de Kooning was 1904 in Rotterdam and in 1926, with help of his friend Leo Cohan, he crossed the ocean as stowaway on a ship to the USA.

The Cliff of the Palisade with Hudson River, Weehawken, New Jersey, 1963 (detail)
Rotterdam, June 2018.

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2021-04-24