Letter, Diaries

After the death of her sister Giovanna in 1738, Rosalba Carriera fell into deep depression. She suffered two failed cataract surgery, but eventually, she completely lost her sight. She survived all …

When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub, I could have shouted for joy. I did …

The love of the wizard knows how to wait, and for a long time, till the end. He never gets impatient. It is enough for him to observe the girl he loves, hidden among the branches of the tree grown …

Sebastiaen Vrancx was born in Antwerp, where his father was a merchant. Sebastian was an apprentice at the studio of Adam van Noort, who trained other prominent artists like Peter Paul Rubens and …

Caravaggio clearly expressed dramatic moments and scenes, often with violence, torture, and death. He worked quickly, with live models, preferred not to use preliminary drawings and work directly on …

The most important northern Italian artist of the early Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna was a student of Roman archaeology and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. A pioneering master of perspective, Mante …

There are no cease to trend guidelines that can assist some ladies or the different stand out higher in the small circles that she fre …

This book with Foreword written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 –1569) was the most important painter and …

Rogier van der Weyden is known as one of the three Vlaamse Primitieven (early Flemish primitivists): the other two are Robert Campin and van Eyck. He achieved great success in the age in which he …