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Biographie de Musset par Arvède Barine. Musset, un auteur reconnu et accepté par ses pairs depuis sa jeunesse, est demeuré relativement inconnu du public jusqu'à longtemps après sa mort. C'est ce que nous explique Arvède Barine dans son livre, qui relate la...

Décryptez l’art de Masaccio en moins d’une heure !Né dans l’Italie du quattrocento, Tommaso di Ser Giovanni, dit Masaccio, est considéré comme le plus grand peintre de la première Renaissance. Alors que le gothique tardif s’efface peu à peu au profit d’un art nouveau, Masaccio se démarque...

Willard Metcalf was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American...

Très instructive biographie de Michel de Montaigne, l'auteur des fameux Essais. En outre d'être écrivain, non seulement Montaigne fut-il juge, maire de Bordeaux, mais il fut également l'ami des nombreux rois qui traversèrent l'époque agitée durant laquelle...

Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1981. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett,...

Lіfе іn Detail Don't lооk nоw, but thаt nerdy kid with thе bаd '90s hаіr frоm 3rd Rock frоm thе Sun іѕ аll grown up. Joseph Gordon-Levitt-- who rоѕe tо popularity оn the strength оf thе prominent comedy-- wеnt from dorky kid actor tо smoldering leading mаn іn whаt feels...

A beautifully illustrated biography of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), the man whose art helped shape the way we view the natural world At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment,...

Now perhaps, the world is ready for Telesymbols. With a perpetual state of no-win war, even the corporate executives realize that our losses in war are too great. So many people and countries now want to mediate this peace, which looks so impossibly far away, it just might happen. Telesymbols can...

Robert Downey, Jr. is a New York-born A-list actor. He is an actor, singer, and producer, who appeared in his first film at age 5. Robert Downey, Jr. is most widely recognized for his roles in such films as, "Less Than Zero", "Chaplin", "Soapdish", the "Iron Man"...

Man's inclination to decorate his belongings has always been one of the earliest signs of civilisation. Art had its beginning in the lines indented in clay, perhaps, or hollowed in the wood of family utensils; after that came crude colouring and drawing. Among the first serious efforts to...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Auguste Rodin drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets...

Lady Gaga is a popular American pop singer-songwriter. In 2012 alone Gaga earned more than $80 million through album sales, tours, endorsements and more!   Gaga began her rise to fame performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003. Lady Gaga is known...

In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his participation...

"A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art . . . fail to mask deep vulnerability."-Chicago Tribune A play about Frank Lloyd Wright set in the summer of 1923, when the great architect has recently left Chicago for California,...