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20 years ago today saw the first broadcast of Where No Fan Has Gone Before!
#Futurama #OTD #OnThisDay
Auguri Roma, Citta Eterna 💛❤️🏛🇮🇹
#OnThisDay 21 April 753 BC #Roma #RomaTiAmo #AuguriRoma #NatalediRoma #Rome
Born #OnThisDay in 1816: English novelist and poet #CharlotteBrontë (1816-55)
Portrait by #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96), 1850
#Brontë #EnglishLiterature #WomenWriters
Born #OnThisDay in 1816: English novelist and poet #CharlotteBrontë (1816-55)
Portrait with sisters Anne (1820-49) & Emily (1818-48) by brother Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), ca. 1834
#Brontë #EnglishLiterature #WomenWriters #SiblingsInArt
Odilon Redon was born #OnThisDay in 1840🎨
During his early career, he worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, before abandoning this medium after 1900 in favour of oils and pastels.
🕷 Araignée, 1887.
🖼 Le char d’Apollon, c. 1907-1910. Oil on panel.
Born #onthisday 1819 Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller-Acland-Hood, MP for Somerset West 1859-68, a former captain in the Royal Horse Guards. His son, Sir Alexander Acland-Hood [pictured], was Conservative Chief Whip, 1902-11.
Happy 35th! Pausing #Control briefly, #JanetJackson teamed up w/ trumpet legend #HerbAlpert on a Jam/Lewis collab, #Diamonds (released in the UK #onthisdayinpopin 1987). Also featured #LisaKeith, the Cool Summer mix was pure Minneapolis funk! @flytetymejam
https://t.co/F8YHO5DGZb
Died #OnThisDay in 1588: Venetian painter #PaoloCaliari (1528-88), aka #Veronese
Portrait of Livia Colonna, 1570-2
#PaoloVeronese #ItalianRenaissance #DogsInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1588: Venetian painter #PaoloCaliari (1528-88), aka #Veronese
Portrait of Iseppo da Porto with his Son, 1555
#PaoloVeronese #ItalianRenaissance #ChildrenInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1588: Venetian painter #PaoloCaliari (1528-88), aka #Veronese
Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo, 1571
#PaoloVeronese #ItalianRenaissance
Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died #onthisday 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW
#OnThisDay 18Apr1797 #BattleofNeuwied w/Lazare Hoche (shown left) leading part of #French Army against Austrian army led by Franz von Werneck (shown right).
April 17, 1726: Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#Voltaire #Bastille #Rohan #history #prison #influence #OnThisDay #otd #TravisSimpkins #art #portrait #sketch #Philosophy #Witticism
Born #onthisday in 1755, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was one of the most prominent (& popular) French portrait painters of the late 1700s—creating 800+ paintings in her lifetime. "Portrait of Madame Du Barry," 1781, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun https://t.co/OAHQh301iA
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun was #BornOnThisDay in 1755! One of the most successful portraitists of 18th century France, she showed at Co|So in 1896.
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Pictured: Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, "Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat," after 1782, oil on canvas, 38.5x28, National Gallery
#OnThisDay 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, sailors on 16 Royal Navy ships anchored at Spithead staged a mutiny in pursuit of better pay and conditions. The mutineers eventually negotiated an agreement that saw a Royal pardon for all crews and a pay rise for sailors.
#CaptionThis
Leave a Comment with a caption to this Sarah Yoshida artwork by nes_art20_ for a chance to win a 12” Sarah crochet doll from @MoonbaseCrochet !
#captioncontest
Remembering the bewitching Elizabeth Montgomery on her birthday ❤️
#elizabethmontgomery #bewitched #samantha #agnesmoorehead #Endora #Witches #bornonthisday #sitcom #classictv #fanart #alejandromogolloart