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1854 In Art
Events from the year 1854 in art. Events * July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled. * November 27 – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents a method of producing '' carte de visite'' photographs in France. Works * ''Athena Protects the Young Hero'', Berlin * Gustave Courbet ** '' La rencontre'' (''"The Meeting"'' or ''"Bonjour Monsieur Courbet"'') (Musée Fabre, Montpellier) ** ''The Wheat Sifters'' * David Cox – '' Rhyl Sands'' * William Powell Frith – ''Ramsgate Sands'' * Holman Hunt – '' The Light of the World'' * Daniel Maclise – '' The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow'' * John Everett Millais – ''John Ruskin'' * Jean-François Millet – ''The Reaper'' * Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – ''Vienna Woods Landscape'' * George Frederic Watts – '' Miss Mary Fox, with Spanish Pointer'' * Antoine Wiertz – '' L'Inhumation précipitée'' * Franz Xaver Winterhalter – '' Dalip Singh'' Births * January 1 – Louis Saint-Gaudens, American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 15
Events Pre-1600 *484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome * 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. ( 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar). * 756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed. *1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. *1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem. *1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton. *1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. *1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
