Letter, Diaries

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life’s work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothe …

Paul Cézanne was the leading figure in the revolution toward abstraction in modern painting. His influence on the course of modern art, particularly on the development of cubism, is enormous and deep …

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was the greatest painter of the Venetian School. Titian was recognized as a towering genius in his own time (Lomazzo described him as the ‘sun amidst small stars not only am …

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 …

The highlights of this book are the 85 color plates of Prud’hon’s academic figure drawings, or ‘acadamies’ as they are known. These drawings dignified and stunningly beautiful. Unfortunately, Prud’ho …

In ‘A Letter Book, ‘ George Saintsbury curates an exquisite collection of correspondence that spans centuries and cultures, illuminating the evolution of letter writing as both an art form and a vita …

Mrs. Warren’s Profession Bernard Shaw – Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902.Act I takes place in the countryside town of H …

The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occ …

"The Mind of the Artist" speaks for itself, and really requires no word of introduction. These opinions as a whole, seem to me to have a harmony and consistency, and to announce clearly tha …

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.H …