Letter, Diaries

Andrew Lang’s ‘Letters to Dead Authors’ is a collection of imaginative and introspective letters addressed to famous authors who have passed away. Lang delves into various literary works, discussing …

‘Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.’ Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the …

Ingres’s style was formed early in life and changed comparatively little. His earliest drawings, such as the Portrait of a Man (1797) already show a suavity of outline and an extraordinary control of …

Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted …

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 …

Anders Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character of his …

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, …

Part 1: Logic (Organon) Categories, translated by E. M. Edghill On Interpretation, translated by E. M. Edghill Prior Analytics (2 Books), translated by A. J. Jenkinson Posterior Analytics (2 …

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist, whose primary subject was the female body. His paintings, murals, and sketches are marked by a sensual eroticism, which is especially apparent in his …

Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (1869 – 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Somov studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Ilya Repin from 1888 to 1897. While at the …