Letter, Diaries

”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 …

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a ‘Maison de Santé’) known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses calle …

The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia. While walking through ‘the goodly city of Edina’ with her 5-inch-tall (130 mm) poodle and her 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) black servant, …

Ferdinand Hodler was famous Swiss painters of the 19th century. He developed a style which he called ‘Parallelism’, characterized by groupings of figures symmetrically arranged in poses suggesting ri …

Chardin was prominent French painter of domestic scenes and still-lifes remarkable for their intimate realism and tranquil atmosphere and the luminous quality of their paint. For his still lifes he c …

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola also known as Parmigianino (‘the little one from Parma’) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Par …

With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. He was an Au …

This is a full-length 275-page book (print version) with approximately 200 original illustrations and lots of how-to and step-by-step tutorials, thorough explanations of beginner as well more advance …

In ‘The Collected Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman’, Anne Gilchrist’s captivating correspondence with the renowned poet Walt Whitman provides readers with profound insights into the intimat …

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), best known as Guercino, or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous …