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Charles Le Brun, a French #Baroque painter, was born 24 February 1619. #LouisXIV #17thCentury #art #BaroquetasticBirthday
A Pagoda by Moonlight, by Umehara Eijirō (active mid-20th century)
#woodblockprint
Floral arrangement, late 18th or early 19th century https://t.co/8ruR9vt1AO #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #chndm
Illustrated travel accounts of Kōbō Daishi (Kōya Daishi gyōjō zue), Vol. 7, Muromachi period, 16th century https://t.co/oCNsos5j1g #museumarchive #harvardartmuseums
🏔 A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains.
London, 1831.
https://t.co/wQyJPBLc45
Honestly I'm so excited of the new content we're having! Electric Century it's one of my fav bands so far so i tried to do a cool drawing mixing a lot of things! Hope y'all like it! @mikeyway @DavidDebiak @ElectricCentury
Born #OnThisDay in 1739: Swedish-French Painter #PeterAdolfHall (1739-93)
Portrait of #MarieAntoinette (1755-1793), Queen of France, 18th century
#Hall #SwedishArt
She was a normal person living outside of Rome, and then, she became one of the strongest Gladiators of the Century 👌🏻
#hinariocs #gladiator #general #abs
Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an #18thcentury #politician in 6 movements
#HistParl #twitterstorians
We have a @LeverhulmeTrust
funded PhD scholarship at @UniOfHull on
'Water, drought and indentureship and slavery in the nineteenth century British Empire'. Further details at: https://t.co/B6aXvJQPQk
The Fine Art Society Edinburgh is now exhibiting online its Modern exhibition comprising 20th century Scottish works of art from a variety of master artists.
https://t.co/ytwoizT7It
@TheFineArtSoc
#artmag #scottishart #scottishgalleries #scottishartonline #scottishpainting
"Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf" is a Russian fairytale collected in the 19th century by Alexander Afanasyev and illustrated in 1969 by Nika Goltz. Ivan has to capture a firebird which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor. #FairyTaleTuesday
Redisigning Dominique, my stinky french vampire from the XVIII century.
#rebolliniocs
RT @AntoineVanner: Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. https://t.co/ahVzPcQroB #NavalHistory #18thCentury
King David, St. Jerome, and Psalm 1 in the Golden Psalter of
St.Gall
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 22: Golden Psalter (Psalterium aureum) of St. Gall; 9th century; pp2, 14-16
(https://t.co/hhZ5FSSRw3)
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was a German-American illustrator. He is considered to be one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century.
'Silent Revolutions: Italian #Drawings from the Twentieth Century', at The .@MenilCollection, #Houston. Until April 11, 2021. https://t.co/eQvLCPOX46 .@chron .@MarcydeLuna
18th century. Liverpool's most feared press gang leaders were 'Jack the Nabber' (a 'piratical-looking scoundrel') and 'Irish John' who led a 'motely crew of desperados'. They would invade brothels and inns to kidnap sailors in the face of strong opposition from the townspeople.
Just one week until our next research seminar! @KatieEBarclay will speak on 'From Corporeal Ethics to Carnal Instincts: Sexual Desires in the Long-Eighteenth Century,' at 10am on 1 March.
Register here: https://t.co/oPVH2N9LZk
Image credit: Trustees of the British Museum
Ubisoft and @AconyteBooks have announced a new #AssassinsCreed novel trilogy set in 16th century China and featuring Shao Jun as main character, that will start releasing this summer.
The first book will be the English version of "Assassin's Creed - The Ming Storm"!
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