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Poetics Aristotle – Aristotle’s Poetics (Greek: Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BC) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on lit …

Metaphysics Aristotle – Metaphysics is one of the principal works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name. Considered to be one of the greatest philosophi …

International diplomat, savvy businessman, devout Catholic, fluent in six languages, an intellectual who counted Europe’s finest scholars among his friends, Peter Paul Rubens was always first a paint …

Like every word she wrote, Wollstonecraft’s letters are full of personal revelations and wise thoughts. They are doubly interesting because can trace the intimate thought which lay beneath the public …

It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearness and moderation. Some people will say that any such capacity …

Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characte …

In the 14th century, after the Hell and Purgatory, Dante Alighieri writes ‘Paradise’: this is the third and last part of the Divine Comedy. Is an allegory which tells of Dante’s journey through the h …

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 …

This book of mine, ‘What is Art?’ appears now for the first time in its true form. More than one edition has already been issued in Russia, but in each case it has been so mutilated by the ‘Censor, ‘ …

The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly journal in England of its period. The first four years are reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of quality an …