Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz 🇵🇱 (1854 - 1893) 🖼️ Brzeg morza / seashore (1889) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1924, Sir Neville Marriner was born. #NowSpinning, the 1st ever recording of St. Martin in the Fields from 1977. JS Bach's Mass in B minor. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Laureys a Castro 🇧🇪 (1664 - 1700) 🖼️ A Mediterranean harbour with Turks and Orientals bringing goods ashore, three galleys and a man-o'-war at anchor (1686) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1759, George Frideric Handel died in London. #NowSpinning his opera 'Tamerlano' with the Orchestra of Patras conducted by Georges Petrou. #music #musicsky #opera

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Henriette Gudin 🇫🇷 (1825 - 1892) 🖼️ Sailing ships at dusk (1876) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1944, Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and 1st female composer awarded with Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (in 1913), dies at 86. #NowSpinning a collection of her songs with Swedish mezzo-soprano Anna Sofie von Otter. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Rafael Silveira 🇧🇷 (b. 1978) 🖼️ Magnetic (2025) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1961, French harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset was born. #nowSpinning 'Les Nations', a vast project of extended trio sonatas by French Baroque composer François Couperin. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Jean Cooke 🇷🇺🇫🇷 (1927 - 2008) 🖼️ The straw hat (1965) - oil on canvas #art

One from each decade Dumpstaphunk is a funk and jam band from New Orleans. #NowSpinning their 2021 album 'Where Do We Go From Here'. #music #musicsky #funk

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Peter Purves Smith 🇦🇺 (1912 - 1949) 🖼️ Lady in Red (1937) - oil on canvas #art

One from each decade This Is The Kit is the alias of British musician Kate Stables, as well as the band she fronts. #nowSpinning 'Moonshine Freeze ', their 4th studio album released in 2017. #music #musicsky #rock

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Paraskeva Clark 🇨🇦 (1898 - 1986) 🖼️ Myself (1933) - oil on canvas #art

One from each decade Hooverphonic is a Belgian electronic band that was formed in October 1995. #NowSpinning their 3rd studio album released in the year 2000, 'The Magnificent tree'. #music #musicsky #pop

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Pablo Picasso 🇪🇸 (1881 - 1973) 🖼️ The Lovers (1923) - oil on linen #art

One from each decade Madredeus are a Portuguese musical ensemble formed in 1985. #NowSpinning their 2nd studio album released in the year 1990 'Existir' #music #musicsky #folk #newage

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Amrita Sher-Gil 🇭🇺🇮🇳 (1913 - 1941) 🖼️ Young girls (1932) - oil on canvas #art

One from each decade The Nits are a Dutch pop group founded in 1974. #NowSpinning their 1987 album 'In the Dutch Mountains' #music #musicsky #pop #rock

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Frédéric Bazille 🇫🇷 (1841 - 1870) 🖼️ Young Woman with Peonies (1870) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1971, Igor Stravinsky died in New York. #NowSpinning 'L'Oiseau de feu', the Firebird. Kent Nagano conducts the LSO. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Edith Collier 🇳🇿 (1885 - 1964) 🖼️ Girl in the sunshine (1915) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1908, Herbert von Karajan was born Salzburg. #NowSpinning one of his greatest recordings from 1973 with the Berliner Philharmoniker: Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. (This is not Karajan's recording used by Kubrick in '2001: A Space Odyssey') #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Marc Chagall 🇷🇺🇫🇷 (1887-1985) 🖼️ Bella with White Collar (1917) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1913, McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was born in Issaquena County, Mississippi. #NowSpinning a compilation of his greatest hits. #music #musicsky #blues

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Romaine Brooks 🇺🇸 (1874 - 1970) 🖼️ Le Trajet (1911) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1897, Johannes Brahms died in Vienna at the age of 63. #NowSpinning his 3rd Symphony with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

The time of the presentation of my novel arrives next month. Being an introvert, I prefer my virtual bluesky friends instead of addressing in Greek my potential readers. #books #writing

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Thomas Gainsborough 🇬🇧 (1727 - 1788) 🖼️ The Blue Boy (1770) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1939, Marvin Gaye was born in Washington DC. #NowSpinning his legendary 1971 album 'What's going On' #music #musicsky #soul

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 🇫🇷 (1755 - 1842) 🖼️ Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan (1788) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1721, Dutch composer, organist and violinist Pieter Hellendaal was born in Rotterdam. He lived 47 years of his life in England. #NowSpinning his 'Cambridge Sonatas'. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Diego Velázquez 🇪🇸 (1599 - 1660) 🖼️ Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach. #NowSpinning Matthäuspassion, BWV 244. Frans Brüggen conducts the Orchestra of the 18th century, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, and the Boys Choir of St. Bavo Cathedral, Haarlem, in this 1998 recording. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Maria Shalcken 🇳🇱 (1645 - 1699) 🖼️ Self Portrait in her studio (1680) - oil on panel #art

#otd 1979, Norah Jones, daughter of Ravi Shankar, was born in Manhattan. #NowSpinning her debut album 'Come Away with Me' which won 4 Grammy Awards back in 2003. #music #musicsky #rock

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Henri Catargi 🇷🇴 (1894 - 1976) 🖼️ Romanian Landscape (1941) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1943, Greek composer Vangelis was born. #NowSpinning the music from the film 'Blade Runner'. One of the best movies of my youth. One of the best #ost ever. #music #musicsky

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Krystyna Szczepanowski 🇨🇭 (b. 1960) 🖼️ Swiss landscape (2023) - watercolor on paper #art

Smile. It is Caturday. #cats #caturday

#otd 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills aged 69. #NowSpinning his choral symphony 'The Bells' after Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Here, conducted by Michail Pletnev. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Hikmet Onat 🇹🇷 (1882 - 1977) 🖼️ View from the woods (1939) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1927, Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was born in Baku. #NowSpinning Johannes Brahms cello sonatas with pianist Rudolf Serkin, who coincidentally was born 28.Mar.1903 ! #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Joan Eardley 🇬🇧 (1921 - 1963) 🖼️ Winter Sea III (1959) - oil on board #art

#otd 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna, aged 56. #NowSpinning his complete music for piano and violoncello with Hungarian pianist András Schiff and Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Rolf Stoll 🇺🇸 (1892–1978) 🖼️ Spanish Landscape with Cypresses (1938) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1918, Claude Debussy died of colon cancer at his home in Paris, aged 55. #NowSpinning his piano works with American pianist Noël Lee. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic #piano

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Victoria Åberg 🇫🇮 (1824 - 1892) 🖼️ River Landscape (1881) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdenburg. #NowSpinning his 'Tafelmusik', a collection of instrumental compositions to accompany your meal. Here, with the Freiburger Barockorchester. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Ludwig Richter 🇩🇪 (1803 - 1884) 🖼️ Bohemian shepherd landscape (1841) - oil on canvas #art

#otd 1944, English composer Michael Nyman was born. Enjoy the #NowSpinning music from the 1993 Academy Award winning film 'The Piano" #music #musicsky #ost