Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert G Ingersoll
Category Archives: amusements
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Composers Born in 19th Century
- Bedrich Smetena
- Leoš Janacek
Leoš Janacek
- Jean Sibelius
- Claude Debussy
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Carl Orff
- Richard Wagner
- Maurice Ravel
- Igor Stravinsky
- Erik Satie
This Month’s Quote
Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.
Richard Feynman
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Artists Born in 18th Century
- John Constable
- JMW Turner
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- John Sell Cotman
John Sell Cotman; Windmill
- John Crome
- François Boucher
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- William Blake
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Antonio Canova
This Month’s Quote
If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
Anthony Douglas Williams
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Composers Born in 18th Century
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- CPE Bach
- Franz Schubert
- Antonio Salieri
Joseph Willibrord Mähler
Portrait of Antonio Salieri
- William Boyce
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini
- Niccolò Paganini
- Carl Maria von Weber
This Month’s Quote
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
Gloria Leonard
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Artists Born in 17th Century
- Claude Lorrain
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Willem van der Velde the Younger
Willem van der Velde the Younger
Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail
- Johannes Vermeer
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Pieter de Hooch
- Antoine Watteau
- William Hogarth
- Peter Lely
This Month’s Quote
The average person thinks he isn’t.
Father Larry Lorenzoni
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Composers Born in 17th Century
- George Frideric Handel
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- JS Bach
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- Domenico Scarlatti
Domingo Antonio Velasco
Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
- Joan Cererols
- Jean-François Dandrieu
- François Couperin