#OTD 1816 Polidori's diary "Up at 9; went to Geneva on horseback and then to Diodati to see Shelley; back; dined; into the new boat - Shelley's - and talked till the ladies' brains whizzed with giddiness, about idealism. Back; rain; puffs of wind. Mistake"
The great #Victorian painter John Everett Millais was born on 8th June 1829 in Hampshire, England. He was a founder of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which was created at his family home in London in 1848. #FolkloreThursday#FolkloreSunday#BookChatWeekly#art#OTD
#OTD 1840 death of Caspar David Friedrich. Here's our post on Romanticism in art, which includes 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog', perhaps his most famous painting
https://t.co/NKLiR1kD7x