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"because ridicule is not so delicate as compassion & because the objects that make us laugh are infinitely more numerous than those that make us weep, there is a much greater latitude for comic than tragic artifices"
Joseph Addison, Spectator 44 #April 1711
#wednesdaythought
#MosaicMonday - a fantastic fun scene here, with musicians, dancing and some bum-wiggling to boot! This ca. 2nd Century AD scene was discovered in the garden of S. Sabina on the Aventine in 1711. #Roman
Image: Musei Vaticani (MV.902.0.0)
Rinaldo es una ópera en tres actos con música de Georg Friedrich Händel y libreto en italiano de Giacomo Rossi. Se trata de una de las óperas más célebres de Händel. Estrenada el #24febrero de 1711 con participación de los castrati, Nicolò Grimaldi "Nicolini" y Valentino Urbani
Sun • Moon • Venus • Mars ~ Astronomical Observations, series of paintings by Donato Creti, 1711 | Museum: Pinacoteca Vaticana
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz (1711-94), 1762
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1724: #LouiseofGreatBritain (1724-51), Queen of Denmark and Norway as spouse of #FrederickV
Portrait by #CarlGustafPilo (1711-93), ca. 1751
#Hanover #Oldenburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1729: #JulianaMariaofBrunswickWolfenbüttel (1729-96), Queen of Denmark & Norway as spouse of #FrederickV
Portrait by #CarlGustafPilo (1711-93), 1762
#Welf #Oldenburg
Le. 3 septembre 1711 : Décès Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron, #peintre française (° 3 octobre 1648)
Born #OnThisDay in 1711: #WilliamIV (1711-51), Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands
Portrait attributed to Johann Valentin #Tischbein (1715-68), ca. 1751
#WillemIV #OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1711: #WilliamIV (1711-51), Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands
Portrait by Marcus Lodovicus Antonius Clifford (1655-1738)
#WillemIV #OrangeNassau
In a not very effective effort to avoid prying eyes the duchess of Beaufort (born #OTD 1711) & her lover Lord Talbot arranged assignations in the #18thcentury equivalent of a country lay-by.
Unsurprisingly the coachmen were watching & later gave evidence against.
#twitterstorians
In 1711 artist Donato Creti was commissioned to paint 8 small canvases of the planets and other celestial objects as a gift to the Pope to convince him of the importance to the Holy Church of an astronomical observatory. Here are 4.
#art #history #painting #space #DonatoCreti
Gérard de Lairesse
(Liège 1640 - Amsterdam 1711)
Allegory of the senses.
Oil on canvas 86 x 116 cm
Est. 25 000 €
Hammer price 50 000 €
#oldmasters
Nabecor enchères
おはようございます❗6月25日🎵今日は 加須市うどんの日ですね!1711(正徳元)年ごろ、埼玉・加須かぞ名物、饂飩うどん粉が茨城・舘林城主だった松平清武宛に贈られたことにちなみつけられました。今日はうどん食べよう