Letter, Diaries

In ‘Penelope’s Postscripts, ‘ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin explores the intricacies of human relationships through a series of engaging, whimsical letters penned by the charming yet unconventional Penel …

Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin was French avant-garde painter, sculptor, and printmaker. His style cultivated from Impressionism in the direction of a personal variety of Symbolism, which sought within th …

Gustav Meyrink (1868 -1932) visited Alois Mailander several times between 1892 and 1905 and tested Mailander’s mystical path. The letters published here report details from Meyrink’s lifeperiod in Pr …

Ilya Repin (1844 – 1930) was a Russian painter, master of portrait, historical, and scenes from everyday life. He was also Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, memoirist, author of several es …

”In Search of Lost Time’ is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century.’ —Harold Bloom ‘At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of …

William-Adolphe Bouguereau used ancient themes, making new readings of classical myths. He settled his abundant fantasy space with a romanticized selection of angels, women and children. A skilled dr …

Raffaello Sanzio, or Raphael, together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, forms the traditional trinity of great masters of Renaissance. He was one of the finest masters of drawing in the histo …

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is best known for his feminine and ethereal compositions of everyday life among women and children. He obviously loved the young of all ages; he seems to have been on of very fe …

Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter who depicted the lives of women, chiefly the intimate bond between mother and child. At the beginning of the 20th century, she had achieved widespre …

Amedeo Modigliani was the quintessence of a tragic artist. He contracted tuberculosis at an early age, which may be one reason why he so willingly engaged in self-destructive behavior. Living in Pari …