Folk Like Us

: works created by artists : paintings, sculptures, etc., that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings.

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Photography by:  Monika Ekiert Jezusek

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Paintings by:  Roman Zakrzewski

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Joseph Lorusso

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Photography by:  Heinrich Kühn

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Paintings by:  Andrea Kowch

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Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day", 1877.

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Described as a "surreal visionary painter", the Mexican illustrator Gabriel Pacheco is recognized and loved around the world for his unique and beautiful style. Gabriel Pacheco, Born: 1973 (age 46 years), Mexico City, Mexico.

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Ultra Realistic Still Life Paintings by Luciano Ventrone 

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The Laughing Fool  c. 1500, by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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The First Operation with Ether,  1882-1893,  by  Robert C. Hinckley   

It was in 1846 that one of mankind's greatest fears, the pain of surgery, was eliminated.  

William T.G. Morton (1819-1868) was a young Boston Dentist and had been in the search for a better agent than what had been used by many dentists: nitrous oxide. With Dr. Morton's tenacity driven by enthusiasm and discovery, he and renowned surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, John Collins Warren (1778-1856) made history on October 16, 1846 with the first successful surgical procedure performed with anesthesia.

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Elizabeth I, date unknown, artist unknown

Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England, never married and was known as the virgin queen. It was during her reign that the first English settlement was made in North America at Roanoke Island. Virginia was named for Elizabeth I, “the Virgin Queen”.

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The Saltonstall Family, c.1636–7, by David Des Granges

Sir Richard Saltonstall draws back the red curtain round the bed that contains his deceased first wife, who gestures towards the couple's two surviving children. He, meanwhile, gazes towards his second - living - wife, who sits holding her own Saltonstall baby. —Tate

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Henry VIII, c. 1513, artist unknown

Eighteen-year-old Henry VIII after his coronation in 1509

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Pope Clement V (1260-1314), painted in the 19th century date, by Henri Serrur

Clement was pope from 1305 to 1314.

He is remembered for suppressing the order of the Knights Templar and allowing the execution of many of its members, and as the Pope who moved the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy. –Wikipedia

On this day:  March 27, 1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.

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King Francis I of France,  c. 1530, by Jean Clouet

On this day:  March 26, 1526 King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France

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Der Gelehrige Schüler / The Docile Students, 1867–1867, by Ferdinand Meyer-Wismar

Artworks

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A Barber Surgeon Tending a Peasant's Foot, c. 1650, by Isaack Koedijck

Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer