Letter, Diaries

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. After Napoleon’s fall from power and the Bourbon revival, David …

Paul Gauguin was French painter, sculptor, and printmaker. His style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist phase towards a highly personal brand of Symbolism, which sought within …

Sketcher, painter, engraver, sculptor and collector, Auguste Rodin is recognized worldwide for the exceptional authenticity of his anatomical sculptures. He strongly influenced twentieth century …

Giovanni Segantini was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were …

This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Caravaggio greatest masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, …

It may be proved, with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It is …

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to …

Falkner – Mary Shelley – Falkner charts a young woman’s education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner …

Paul Cézanne forms the connection linking late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new contour of Cubism. Matisse and Picasso together recognize that ‘Cezanne is the father of all …

George Romney was an English portrait painter, the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. …