Letter, Diaries

I need not explain how these Shadows were suggested, to any one who has seen WILKIE’S picture, ‘The Rabbit on the Wall.’ But by what pains they were invented can never be revealed; for it is known to …

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. Prud’hon’s artistic style contrasted starkly with the dominant …

John Constable was English painter, ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists. After spending some years working in the Picturesque tradition of landscape and the manner of …

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Italian engraver and architect, is best known for his etchings of ancient and baroque Rome and grandiose architectural constructions of his own imagination. …

A sculptor, architect, painter, and graphic artist, Michelangelo cannot be assigned definitely to any of those genres. The drawing as a medium for developing new ideas and conveying artistic …

Paul Sandby (1731 – 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolors, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. …

The Pompeian Styles are many and different from the periods distinguished by the German archaeologist August Mau. All that is now to update. This book shows a big part of interior decoration …

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 …

Being personally convinced of the considerable importance that a great country like the United States of America and its people have towards the World Community and, given the management of the …

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas’ most popular work. It …