Letter, Diaries

Guido Reni (1575 – 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style and popular religious works and critically acclaimed mythological scenes. He was a quintessentially classical academic but he was …

The origin of this diary was a gift of my 75 year old aunt Elsa in the mid 90s. It was written by her brother in WWII with a now fading pencil in a kind of old German sutterlin style. So, I decided t …

In ‘Letters of Edward Fitz Gerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883), ‘ the renowned translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents a deeply personal and intellectually vibrant correspondence with the …

Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draftsman and master of the pastels. He describes his own work as ‘ambiguous and indefinable’: ‘My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined …

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter connected with the Peredvizhniki movement. The masterpieces of this outstanding artist benefit from enormous fame in Russia; the most excellent …

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880. Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit …

In ‘Mary Powell & Deborah’s Diary, ‘ Anne Manning presents a dual narrative that intricately interweaves the lives of two women in the 17th century, capturing their emotional landscapes against the b …

This e-book is part of the Ulysses’ Shelter project started in 2017 with the objective to build a network of exchange literary residencies aimed at young writers and literary translators. The second …

Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist who depicted the life of women, essentially the intimate bond between mother and child. In Europe, Cassatt’s paintings were better received that in United S …

Lovis Corinth was a German painter, one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism and Expressionism. Today he is regarded as one of the ‘Classics of Modern Art’ and his works are …