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It's back!  With the goal of bringing a little cheer to patients in the hospital during the holiday season, the deviantART Holiday Card Project connects deviants from around the world and applies their tremendous artistic abilities in designing and creating uplifting holiday cards. In past years, the Project has received more than 5,000 cards sent in by more than 1,000 deviants from 50 different countries/political regions. Cards were then divvied up and distributed in-person by deviantART members to local Los Angeles, CA hospitals, with additional cards given to various hospitals in the U.S. and abroad for hospital staff members to hand out

%ArtHistoryProject (https://www.deviantart.com/arthistoryproject) :iconcommunityrelations: A man of some mystery John William Waterhouse, most affectionately known throughout his lifetime as 'Nino" was born in Rome to his English parents William and Isabella during the wonder years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who set the art world alight. It was his Italian beginnings that first influenced his artistic style as a young man first at school in Leeds, then later at his father's studio in London where he entered the coveted Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 21, not as a painter; but as a sculptor.  Six months later his probationary term ended and he was fully enrolled as a stud