Letter, Diaries

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 …

Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor, usually considered the progenitor of modern sculpture. But actually Rodin did not set out to revolutionary against the past. He was educated traditionally, took a …

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712 – 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta (a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista), a member o …

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, (1833 –1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide r …

Washington’s Masonic correspondence as found among the Washington papers in the Manuscript department of the Library of Congress, affords an insight of the great esteem in which Washington held the M …

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meanin …

Mary Hays’Äôs ‘Memoirs of Emma Courtney’ provides a vivid exploration of the inner life and struggles of its eponymous heroine. Written in the early 19th century, this novel employs a rich epistolary …

In ‘Dangerous Liaisons, ‘ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos presents a masterful epistolary novel that delves into the intricate web of seduction, manipulation, and moral ambiguity among the French aristocr …

This book contains 335 high-quality annotated reproductions with details of paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn. Some people say that the ‘devil’s in the details’ and generally, they …

Eugene Delacroix was the greatest French painter of the Romantic Movement. Delacroix’s output was enormous. After his death his executors found more than 9, 000 paintings, pastels, and drawings in hi …