François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
1740s
oil on canvas
77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm
(30 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art

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1626
WILLEBRORD SNELL VAN ROIJEN (1580-1626)
This polymath professor at discovers the law governing the refraction of light which is the principal of dioptrics, but did not publish it.

Later in 1703 Christiaan Huygens published the Snellius findings in ‘Dioptrica’.

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François Boucher (1703-1770)

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Luca Giordano, Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, 1703–4 https://t.co/Qcp5R7tHjW

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29-31 July 1703. Daniel Defoe, author of the classic novel, Robinson Crusoe, was placed in a pillory over 3 days at 3 different locations in London as punishment for publishing a satirical pamphlet attacking Church of England zealots. But the crowds only pelted him with flowers.

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François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Venus and Cupid
1750–1775
oil on walnut panel
37.3 x 28.9 cm
English Heritage, Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster

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Supremaye of the day 🌅


Rarity:

1⃣ BG - 2%
2⃣ BODY - 9%
3⃣ CLOTHES - 0.30%
4⃣ FACE - 0.48%
5⃣ HATS - 0.74%
6⃣ MYTHIC - 98%

https://t.co/GrlBPNnrlQ

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Luca Giordano, The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes, 1703–4 https://t.co/WIryaV1L84

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Stirling Castle, 70 gun, 3rd rate, launched 1673; lost on Goodwin Sands in Great Storm, 1703, & items recovered from wreck: ship's furnace, hour glass & deck slate = reusable log to record hourly progress for noting down later in ship's formal log 194/365

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PUSS IN BOOTS or the robber kitten; the most renowned animal trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & Blue Fairy Book, 1889. Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten card c.1887

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Itsuki bought for 0.08 ETH (87.82 USD) by olenka_illustrates from amydigi https://t.co/uOjvhyp1ov

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Luca Giordano, Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, 1703–4 https://t.co/Qcp5R7tHjW

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Mutant Ape# 1703
Rarity: 878
Offer for 20.5 $ETC ($331.49 USD)
Gas: 0.000143481 ETC ($0.00232 USD)
https://t.co/mPHYMYUkx6


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François Boucher (1703 - 1770)

Pompadour at her toilette (Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), 1750.

La Pompadour was official mistress to Louis XV from 1745. His portrait is on her bracelet.

© President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Luca Giordano, The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes, 1703–4 https://t.co/WIryaUKagw

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6/12は の祝日です✨

1685年ピサ貴族生

1703年チッタ・ディ・カステッロのカプチン・フランシスコ修道会系クララ会入り

16年 院長の代理。27年院長

生涯身体中に湿疹を患います(20年間)。67年同院で帰天

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François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The Wooden Shoes
1768
oil on canvas
622 × 521 mm
(24.48 × 20.51 in)
Art Gallery of Ontario

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Luca Giordano, Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes, 1703–4 https://t.co/Qcp5R7tHjW

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