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| Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Lucan (39; died April 30, 65) Roman poet known for
Pharsalia or
De Bello Civili (
On the Civil War); perhaps
Laus Pisonis (
Praise of Piso)
Benvenuto Cellini (1500; died February 13, 1571) artisan in the Italian Renaissance known for his
Autobiography
William Cullen Bryant (1794; died June 12, 1878) American poet; "Thanatopsis"; "To a Waterfowl"
Andre Malraux (1901; died November 23, 1976) French novelist;
La Condition Humaine (
Man's Fate)
Died on this day:
Henri Matisse (1954; born December 31, 1869) French artist;
Woman with a Hat;
Nu bleu;
La Danse
Ernest Gombrich (2001; born March 30, 1909) Austrian-born British art historian;
The Story of Art;
Art and Illusion;
Meditations on a Hobby Horse;
The Image and the Eye
Bonus Classic:
New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (c. 100-300) Middle Eastern extra-Biblical books; accounts of Jesus and the early Church not included in the Bible; some were in fact "shortlisted" when the Canon was fixed.
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