Letter, Diaries

Are you sick of barely scraping by as a creative? How long have you been trying to build your career? How many hours have you spent banging your head against a wall? How much money have you sunk into …

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 m …

John Singleton Copley RA (1738 – 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, …

It is said of de Montfort’s book, The Secret of the Rosary, “It goes far beyond mere research. We might say that it contains everything that can be said about the rosary, its content and …

69 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 3 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: ‘Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was …

Essentially, Zen is the study of the self. The great Master Dogen said:“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlighte …

Sergei Arsenievich Vinogradov (1869–1938, Riga) was a Russian Impressionist painter; known for landscapes, genre scenes and interiors. His father was a rural priest. From 1880 to 1889, he studied at …

In the spring of 1864 the British poet, writer and playwright Algernon Charles Swinburne had the chance of spending many days in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, and in the Uffizi Gallery on …

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831 – 1894) was а Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. He was born in Voronezh City, to a Russian noble family of French origin. H …

n his life, Jack London was also a photographer (he would call his pictures "human documents") and his camera has been his inseparable companion in his adventures and reportages all over th …