Letter, Diaries

Chase worked in all media but was excellent in pastel drawing. He as well created a lot of watercolor paintings and etchings. Highly proficient in pastel as well as oils, Chase organized with Robert …

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 …

Giovanni Boldini was known as the ‘Master of Swish’ because of his flowing style of painting. His paintings and drawings showed his subject in soft-focus, elongated, in movement, alive, and sophistic …

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 i …

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 Donal …

Almayer’s Folly, Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells o …

François Boucher was an incredibly productive, making thousands of drawings (sketches and finished works) in chalk, ink, pastels, preparing drawings for engraving, designing tapestries and painting i …

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. ‘Prud’hon’s true genius lay in allegory; this is his empire and his true dom …

John Singer Sargent was an American leading portrait painter of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created about 900 oil paintings and more than 2, 000 watercolors, as well as countless sket …

Giambattista Tiepolo was the last of the great Venetian decorators, the purest exponent of the Italian Rococo, and arguably the greatest painter of the 18th century. Tiepolo was equally prized as a d …