Letter, Diaries

Bonheur can be seen as a symbol of the 19th century ‘New Woman’; at a time when women were looking at a certain amount of neglect, she demonstratively decided to wear pants, shirts, and ties. The wea …

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He …

In it he treats of the relationship between God and mankind, stressing first and foremost the love of God for human beings, and the plan he devised for saving them from the consequences of sin. Using …

A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European Drago …

Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov (1827-1902) was a Russian-born history and genre painter who spent most of his life in Italy. He displayed an early affinity for drawing and received his first art lesson …

Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.Lely was born Pieter van der Faes …

The greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced innovative landscapes and vigorous, witty scenes of peasant life. He exerted a strong influence on painting in …

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (1863 –1930) was a Russian artist and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Born at Moscow, Golo …

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 – 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later …

A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European Drago …