Letter, Diaries

‘Berenice’ is a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1835, the tale is centered on the death of a young girl, named Berenice, and the mysterious visions of her cousin …

Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin was French painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Gauguin’s style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist period in the direction of a highly individual Symboli …

John Constable was English artist, considered with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape painters. His most excellent landscapes are of the places Constable knew, mainly Suffolk and Hampste …

One author described Titian as the ‘Sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world’. Titian was supreme in every branch of painting and his achievements were so …

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school. Unlike the Impressionists, Corot painted only sketches in the open air; he composed his finished paint …

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. …

Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting …

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His con …

Sir Peter Lely (1618 –1680) was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. Lely studied painting in Haarlem, …

Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his portraits. Holbein was one of the greatest po …