Delacroix supported the French Revolution against the Catholic monarchy and was an ardent rationalist.
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November 14: Claude Monet (1840)
It was on this date, November 14, 1840, that the founder of French impressionist painting, Claude Monet was born. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). From his earliest days,…
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March 24: William Morris (1834)
It was on this date, March 24, 1834, that English poet, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist William Morris was born in Walthamstow. As a youth he was an avid reader and at Oxford he was a zealous student of theology,…
November 26: Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz (1922) It was on this date, November 26, 1922, that the creator of Snoopy, Lucy, Charlie Brown and the other characters of the “Peanuts” comics world, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, was born in St. Paul Minnesota. There…
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August 30: Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (1748) On this date, August 30, 1748, that the most important European painter of the French Revolutionary period, from 1785-1815, Jacques-Louis David, was born into the Parisian merchant class. David’s father must have been both prideful and foolish,…
July 11: Whistler’s Father (1834)
James McNeill Whistler (1833) It was on this date, July 11, 1834, that American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His father was an Army Major and Whistler himself was educated at West Point, from which…
June 8: Frank Lloyd Wright
About religion, Wright said, “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature… And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
Tagged with: Prairie House, Religion of Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesen
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April 23: J.M.W. Turner
Turner “did not profess to be a member of any visible Church,” and he “had no religious hope to cheer him” when he died.
April 15: Leonardo da Vinci
This deathbed conversion, by so critical a thinker as Leonardo, who would have nothing to lose by professing piety all his life, can only mean that during his prime years he was a secret freethinker.
Tagged with: La Gioconda, Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Religion of Leonardo da Vinci, Vasari
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March 6: Michelangelo
The Catholic Encyclopedia, while praising his morality, industry and artistic talent, can find no words to describe his religious faith.
Tagged with: Agony and the Ecstasy, Buonarroti, Catholic Encyclopedia, Creation of Adam, David, Last Judgment, Medici, Pietà, Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Religion of Michelangelo, Renaissance
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