Jean baptiste

Throughout the history of philosophy, literature, art, and science, people have been fascinated with the shimmering surfaces of soap bubbles.

Portrait of Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782), French architect.by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. mid-18th century. Louvre Museum ~ Jacques Gabriel made quite the name for himself as First Architect to King Louis XV. While First Architect, Gabriel designed many famous public buildings including the Place de la Concorde and the Opera of Versailles. Other important projects he worked on included those at the Louvre and Fontainebleau.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"

As part of their training in the late 18th century, French artists practiced drawing têtes d'expression, or expressive heads, that display subtleties of human emotion. Greuze made this chalk study in

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875). Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Fletcher Fund, 1967 (67.250) #hands #Connections

Italian, The Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1511. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.

John Stuart Mill anticipates the end.