This Day in the Arts: November 14
1840:
Claude Monet, a French painter and leading figure in the late-19th-century movement called Impressionism, is born.
1851:
American writer Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick, which is based on a detailed knowledge of the sea, ships, and whaling; the novel also reveals Melville’s profound insight into human nature as well as his preoccupation with human fate in the universe.
