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This treatise is a brief but very concise introduction to Asian art. Writing from a Japanese perspective and focusing on Japanese art, one of the most important themes is the relationship between spi …

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 …

The history of Greek sculpture covers a period of some eight or nine hundred years, and falls into five divisions. [1] The first is the period of development, extending from 600 to 480 B. C. The seco …

De Profundis Oscar Wilde – Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet’s imprisonment. H …

‘Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.’ Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the Impressi …

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Italian engraver and architect, is best known for his etchings of ancient and baroque Rome and grandiose architectural constructions of his own imagination. Th …

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704 – 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. H …

Few writers have managed to affect the cinema as much as Stephen King. From the ‘70s until today, almost all of his novels have been brought to the big screen or television, an indication of King’s e …

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (1848 – 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic modernist …

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