Dorothea Tanning was born on August 25, 1910, in Galesburg, Illinois. She lived 101 years and spent nearly all of […]
Four hundred and seventy-four years ago today, Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna. Her father, the Mannerist painter Prospero Fontana,
Aubrey Beardsley was born on August 21, 1872, in Brighton, England, and died at twenty-five, leaving behind a body of
Two hundred and forty-one years ago today, on August 20, 1785, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle died in Paris at seventy-one. He was
On August 19, 1839, in a packed chamber of the Institut de France in Paris, the French government did something
Scholars have never fully settled whether Francesco Albani was born on the 17th of March or the 17th of August
Annibale Carracci gets the glory. His brother Agostino, born in Bologna on August 16, 1557, built the system. Together with
René Magritte died on August 15, 1967, in Brussels, aged 68. Fifty-nine years later he remains the rare painter whose
On August 14, 1905, the painter Simeon Solomon died in London at sixty-four, destitute and largely forgotten. Thirty years earlier,
George Wesley Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, on August 12, 1882. He died of a ruptured appendix in January
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