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#461 · December 13, 2024, 2:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1466, sculptor, Donatello, died in Florence, Italy at the age of 80. Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/13/day
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#462 · December 13, 2024, 2:07 pm
13 December 1913. Authorities in Florence, Italy, announced the Mona Lisa had been recovered 2 years after it was originally stolen. The culprit was an Italian petty criminal called, Vincenzo Perugia, who had moved to Paris in 1908, and had worked at the Louvre Museum.
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#463 · December 13, 2024, 2:09 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1944 painter and art theorist, one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art, Wassily Kandinsky died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged 77. Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/13/day
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#464 · December 13, 2024, 2:10 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1961 folk artist Grandma Moses died at the Health Center in Hoosick Falls, New York, aged 101. Maple Grove Cemetery, Hoosick Falls thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/13/day
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#465 · December 16, 2024, 1:54 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1675, artist (Girl with a Peal Earring) Johannes Vermeer died after a short illness in Delft, Dutch Republic, at the age of 43. Oude Kerk, Delft thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/15/day
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#466 · December 19, 2024, 1:54 pm
19 December 1851. The renowned English artist Joseph Turner died (aged 76). He’s best known for his expressive and imaginative landscapes and vivid maritime paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper.
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#467 · December 23, 2024, 1:16 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1979, art collector, bohemian and socialite Peggy Guggenheim died from a stroke in Camposampiero near Padua, Italy, aged 81. Cremated remains in the Nasher Sculpture Garden of her home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, next to her Lhasa Apso dogs thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/23/day
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#468 · December 25, 2024, 2:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1983, painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, Joan Miró died from heart disease in his home in Palma, Majorca, aged 90. Cementiri de Montjuïc, Barcelona thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/25/day
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#469 · December 26, 2024, 1:36 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1909, painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer, Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy led to peritonitis, at the age of 48 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Evergreen Cemetery, Canton, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/26/day
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#470 · December 31, 2024, 3:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1877 painter Gustave Courbet died in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, of liver disease aggravated by heavy drinking at the age of 58. Cemetery of Ornans, France (self portrait) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/31/day
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#471 · January 5, 2025, 1:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1942 photographer, model (for Edward Weston, Diego Rivera), actor, revolutionary political activist, Tina Modotti died from congestive heart failure in Mexico City, aged 45. Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/05/day
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#472 · January 6, 2025, 2:01 pm
6 January 1993. Rudolf Nureyev died (aged 54), of AIDS complications. He’s regarded as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. In June 1961, he defected from the Soviet Union to the west, while in Paris. It came at height of the Cold War and was applauded in the west.
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#473 · January 8, 2025, 1:07 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1958 architect (Grand Canyon National Park; Hopi House, Hermit's Rest, Lookout Studio, Desert View Watchtower, Bright Angel Lodge, Phantom Ranch), designer Mary Colter died in Santa Fe, aged 88. Oakland Cemetery, Saint Paul, Minnesota thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#474 · January 8, 2025, 1:07 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1963 Surrealist artist, poet (Faut dire c'qui est) Kay Sage died; self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart; Woodbury, Connecticut, aged 64. Cremated remains scattered with those of her husband Yves Tanguy on the beach at Douarnenez, Brittany thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#475 · January 13, 2025, 1:51 pm
13 January 1930. The 1st Mickey Mouse Comic Strip appeared. It would soon be transferred into a hugely successful animated cartoon film.
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#476 · January 14, 2025, 12:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1867 Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died of pneumonia in his apartment on the Quai Voltaire in Paris, aged 86. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a tomb sculpted by his student Jean-Marie Bonnassieux thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/14/day
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#477 · January 15, 2025, 2:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1955 surrealist painter, husband of Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy died; stroke in Woodbury CT. His cremated remains were kept until Sage's death in 1963. Their remains were scattered by Pierre Matisse on the beach at Douarnenez in Brittany, France thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/15/dat
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#478 · January 16, 2025, 11:55 am
#RIP #OTD in 2009, visual artist Andrew Wyeth died in his sleep in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness, at the age of 91. Hathorn Cemetery, Cushing, Maine thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/16/day
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#479 · January 17, 2025, 1:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1863 painter Horace Vernet died in Paris at the age of 73. Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/17/day
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#480 · January 17, 2025, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1933, artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany died in New York City at the age of 84. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/17/day
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