May 16th 1895-Aug 23rd 1926
Rudolph Valentino immigrated his hottnes from Italy to Ellis Island where he became a “Taxi Dancer” paid to dance with the ladies… Became a big star when he played The Sheik. It was a silent film but we were all here to look, not listen!! Died at age 31
Michelangelo, he could squat my heart any day.
Source to mah boi Raphael for this sweet painting of a bunch of philosophers with artist’s faces.
This obviously isn’t anyone in particular, but I felt it kind of fit the general spirit of the site.
All the recent James Joyce submissions all I can think of is this Hark, a vagrant strip
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=32Not making any judgments on sexy mister Joyce, just. Yeah, thought it was funny.
HAHA OH MY GOD YES. So good.
He was already a casanova during his time.. No wonder!!!! He even poses like a boss..!!
Manuel Tolsá (1757-1816).
Tolsá studied at the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Valencia and the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. He was a student of José Puchol in sculpture and of Ribelles, Gascó and Gilabert in architecture. In Spain he was the sculptor of the king’s chamber, minister of the Supreme Junta of Commerce, Minting and Mines, and an academic in San Fernando. In 1790 he was named director of sculpture at the recently created Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He sailed from Cádiz in February, 1791, bringing with him to New Spain, in accordance with the king’s instructions, books, instruments of his profession, and plaster copies of classic sculptures from the Vatican Museum. He married María Luisa de Sanz Téllez Girón y Espinosa in the port of Veracruz.
On his arrival in Mexico City the ayuntamiento (city government) made him supervisor of the drainage and water supply systems of the city and assigned him the tasks of the replanting the Alameda park in the center of the city and the grounds of the coliseum. For these services he did not receive compensation. Thereafter he dedicated himself to the artistic and civil works for which he is now remembered. He also built furniture, made adornments for altars (candelabra, crucifixes, etc.), cast cannons, opened a bathhouse, built coaches and established a kiln. He donated a collection of molds and figures and 300 medals and coins to the Academy of San Carlos.
Tolsá died in 1816 of a gastric ulcer. His remains were interred in the church of Santa Veracruz, and later transferred to San Fernando.
