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Ballerina and choreographer Fanny Cerrito was born on this day 200 years ago.
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11 Thursday May 2017
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Ballerina and choreographer Fanny Cerrito was born on this day 200 years ago.
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06 Thursday Apr 2017
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22 Tuesday Nov 2016
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Bernardo Cavallino: Santa Cecilia in estasi (1645)
Museo nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
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06 Wednesday Jan 2016
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24 Thursday Dec 2015
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London’s National Gallery presents a series of short films about depictions of angels in its collection.
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22 Sunday Nov 2015
Orazio Gentileschi & Giovanni Lanfranco: Saint Cecilia and an Angel
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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14 Saturday Nov 2015
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Claude Monet was born 175 years ago today.
La rue Montorgueil, à Paris. Fête du 30 juin 1878
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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27 Friday Mar 2015
La actriz María Guerrero como “Doña Inés” (1891)
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The actress María Guerrero (1868-1928) is depicted in the role of Doña Inés from the play Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla (1817-1893). The play, premiered in 1844, is a reinterpretation of the myth of Don Juan created by Tirso de Molina (1571-1648).
María Guerrero, dressed in the habit of the Calatrava nuns, is shown at the moment in which Doña Inés, who has withdrawn to a convent, receives a love letter from Don Juan, hidden in the pages of a book.
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25 Wednesday Mar 2015
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06 Friday Mar 2015
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On the 540th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Heaven-Born Beauty, first reading
As one who will reseek her home of light,
Thy form immortal to this prison-house
Descended, like an angel piteous,
To heal all hearts and make the whole world bright.
‘Tis this that thralls my soul in love’s delight,
Not thy clear face of beauty glorious;
For he who harbours virtue, still will choose
To love what neither years nor death can blight.
So fares it ever with things high and rare
Wrought in the sweat of nature; heaven above
Showers on their birth the blessings of her prime:
Nor hath God deigned to show Himself elsewhere
More clearly than in human forms sublime;
Which, since they image Him, alone I love.
– Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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25 Thursday Dec 2014
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24 Monday Nov 2014
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born 150 years ago today.Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Art Institute of Chicago
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24 Tuesday Jun 2014
Who was John the Baptist and why has he been so important to artists and patrons over the centuries?
To celebrate the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, explore 10 films about the life of this pivotal figure through masterpieces in London’s National Gallery and beyond. ‘John the Baptist: From Birth to Beheading’ is a series of 10 short films sharing the highlights of the collaborative MA course taught by Dr Jennifer Sliwka, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellow in Art and Religion at the National Gallery, and Professor Ben Quash, Director of the Centre for Arts and the Sacred, King’s College London.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/channel/saint-john-the-baptist/
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18 Wednesday Jun 2014
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Rogier van der Weyden died 550 years ago today.
The Descent from the Cross (ca. 1435)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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23 Wednesday Apr 2014
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