March 10 is the birthday of Italian sculptor GIACOMO SERPOTTA (1656-1732).

Serpotta's "skill and facility with stucco sculpture appears to have arisen without mentorship or direct exposures to the mainstream of Italian Baroque. Rudolf Wittkower describes him as an aberrancy in an otherwise provincial scene, a 'meteor in the Sicilian sky.'" (Wikipedia)

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March 10 is the birthday of Pre-Raphaelite painter MARIE SPARTALI STILLMAN (1844-1927).

Of Greek descent, Stillman was one of the most prominent female artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. "The subjects of her paintings were typical of the Pre-Raphaelites, and include female figures and Italian landscapes, as well as scenes from the work of Shakespeare, Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio." (Wikipedia)

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March 10 is the birthday of Spanish violinist and composer PABLO DE SARASATE (1844-1908).

"A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!"

Sarasate "was a Spanish (Navarrese) violin virtuoso, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), the Spanish Dances, and the Carmen Fantasy." (Wikipedia)

March 10 is the birthday of French Art Nouveau architect and designer HECTOR GUIMARD (1867-1942).

"For construction, do not the branches of the trees, the stems, by turns rigid and undulating, furnish us with models?"

Guimard "achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris, which was selected in an 1899 competition as one of the best new building facades in the city. He is best known for the glass and iron edicules or canopies, with ornamental Art Nouveau curves, which he designed to cover the entrances of the first stations of the Paris Metro."

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March 10 is the birthday of Danish-Icelandic sculptor EDVARD ERIKSEN (1876-1959).

Eriksen "is best known as the creator of The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen (1909–1913), and used his wife, Eline Eriksen, as the model for the statue's body, and actress Ellen Price as the model for the mermaid's head." (Wikipedia)

March 10 is the birthday of English painter, illustrator and graphic artist EDWARD BAWDEN (1903-1989).

Bawden “was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists ..." (Wikipedia)

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March 10 is the birthday of American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer BIX BEIDERBECKE (1903-1931).

"I'd go to hell to hear a good band."

"One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

Beiderbecke "was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like 'shooting bullets at a bell.'" (Wikipedia)

March 10 is the birthday of Japanese artist KIYOSHI YAMASHITA (1922-1971).

Yamashita "is famous for his wanderings throughout Japan, during which he wore only a vest, garnering the nickname 'The Naked General.' ... Yamashita used the Chigiri-e method of sticking torn pieces of coloured paper together to depict the scenery he saw on his travels. Possessing eidetic memory, Yamashita usually recreated the entire scene from memory when he returned to the institution or his home. Because of this, Yamashita is often considered an autistic savant." (Wikipedia)

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