This Day in the Arts: November 1
1512:
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604:
William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1871:
Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage and one of the first American writers to use a naturalistic style of writing, is born.
