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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill His commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion." ~ Albrecht Dürer

🎨 Albrecht Dürer, "Knight, Death and the Devil", 1513

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2022-04-06

🎨 Henri Rousseau, "The Snake Charmer", 1907

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2021-09-03

"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill His commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion." ~ Albrecht Dürer

🎨 Albrecht Dürer, "Knight, Death and the Devil", 1513

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2021-04-06

Joseph Simpson in 1968, the first Met Commissioner to have joined as a PC and one of only two to die in office. Ten days later his body lay in state in the foyer of New Scotland Yard, which had reopened at 10 Broadway near the previous year.

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2021-03-20

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scotland) in London on 10/12/1928

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2020-12-10

The Haunted Room Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor, 1952, Alfred Munnings. Violet Munnings, who in 1971, was definitely a believer and wrote about ghostly encounters in her notebooks and letters to Munnings. She claimed Castle House, now the museum, was haunted too!

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2020-11-01

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1610 at the age of 39. Here are some of his final paintings, The Denial of St Peter , David with the head of Goliath & The Martyrdom of St Ursula , all done in the last year of his life.

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2020-07-19


Salvator Rosa, famous Italian Baroque painter

Allegory of Fortune can be found at the

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2016-03-15


Benjamin West, famous Britsh painter

pic: "Death of General Wolfe" at

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2016-03-12

100 years ago
Franz Marc - member of the group

pic: Blaues Pferd 1

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2016-03-04