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Caravaggio's Amor Vincet Omnia (Love Conquers
All) features a disturbingly realistic Cupid |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Miguel de Cervantes (1547; died April 22, 1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright;
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Caravaggio (1571; died July 18, 1610) Italian painter;
The Fortune Teller;
Amor Vincet Omnia;
St. Jerome Writing;
Supper at Emmaus;
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Died on this day:
Emile Zola (1902; born April 2, 1840) French novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote the twenty novels of the cycle called
Les Rougon-Macquart;
Therese Raquin
Winslow Homer (1910; born February 24, 1836) American painter;
A Visit from the Old Mistress;
Breezing Up;
Eight Bells;
The Gulf Stream;
The Fox Hunt;
Right and Left;
Marine Coast;
High Cliff
Carson McCullers (1967; born February 19, 1917) American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet who wrote
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter;
The Ballad of the Sad Café;
The Member of the Wedding
W.H. Auden (1973; born February 21, 1907) English-American poet who wrote
The Age of Anxiety; "Funeral Blues"; "September 1, 1939"; "The Shield of Achilles"; "For the Time Being"; "Horae Canonicae"; Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1947)
Endo Shusaku (1996; born March 27, 1923) Japanese author who wrote
Chinmoku (
Silence)
Bonus Classic:
Aristophanes (c. 446-c. 386 BCE) Greek comic playwright; 11. Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
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