Letter, Diaries

Pietro Perugino was a Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school and the teacher of Raphael. He was also one of the first to handle successfully the new medium of oil. His charming compositions are no …

The Lord Jesus chose Sr. Maria Faustina as the Apostle and "Secretary" of His Mercy, so that she could tell the world about His great message, which Sr. Faustina recorded in a diary she …

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862 – 1942) was a Russian painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in …

Etty was prolific and commercially successful throughout the 1840s, but the quality of his work deteriorated throughout this period. As his health progressively worsened he retired to York in 1848. …

Frans Pourbus the Younger, often referred to simply as “Frans II” to be distinguished by his father Frans Pourbus the Elder (“Frans I”)  originated from a descendant family of artists, his …

Summer 1959. Pier Paolo Pasolini, driving a Fiat Millecento, travelled along the Italian coastline, to carry out La lunga strada di sabbia [The Long Road of Sand]: a wide report commissioned by the …

Arseny Ivanovich Meshchersky (1834 – 1902) was a Russian landscape painter. His parentage is not known for certain but, based on certain references in family records to a young boy with artistic …

Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River …

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Jan van Eyck. Jan van Eyck (b. 1390 –1441) is one of the most important …

Holbein the Younger was one of the greatest portrait masters and the most sophisticated stylists in the art of painting all the time in German art. The artist’s work survived for us while working in …