Letter, Diaries

INFPs are guided by strong principles; you will find them frequently lost in their imagination and daydreams. In this book you will find two classic novels specially selected to please the tastes of …

John Joseph Enneking (1841 – 1916) was an American Impressionist painter. Enneking is a plein air painter, and his favorite subject is the November twilight of New England, and more generally the hal …

My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor of …

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of landscapes of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Much of Canaletto’s early artwork was painted ‘from …

The history of the publication of the Journal to Stella is somewhat curious. On Swift’s death twenty-five of the letters, forming the closing portion of the series, fell into the hands of Dr. Lyon, a …

Francisco de Goya was the most potent and creative Spanish artist of his time. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from cheerful and optimistic to totally pessimistic and searching in his …

The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally connected in subject; their aim being to set one or two main principles of art in simple light before the general student, …

Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of p …

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape artist, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. He was the most inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with ne …

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 …