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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), best known as Guercino, or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous …

The Touchstone – Edith Wharton – The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York.Stephen Glennard, the novels protago …

François Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupat …

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks, including around 860 …

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, …

The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously wri …

Dear Enemy Jean Webster – This antiquarian book contains Jean Webster’s seminal novel, ‘Dear Enemy’. It is the sequel to Webster’s previous best-selling novel ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’, and became one of the …

This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 305 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from James Whistler.James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler was The American painter, etcher, and li …

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

Michelangelo’s drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, p …