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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...

George Stubbs was marvellous English animal painter and anatomical draftsman, famous for his paintings of horses. Stubbs also painted a wide range of other animals, including the lion, tiger, giraffe, monkey, and rhinoceros, which he was able to observe in private menageries. According to the Ozias...

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world’s most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life he lived and the people he knew that make...

Blonder Strubbelkopf, aus den Augen blickt der Schalk, Lebensspuren im hellwachen, klugen Gesicht. Von dieser Frau lässt man sich gern etwas erzählen über das Leben und über die Kunst, der sie sich mit Haut und Haar verschrieben hat. Als Elfjährige wurde sie fürs Fernsehen entdeckt, trat in...

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century....

John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew...

Jadis « Littérature », voici le Poète gascon véritable « Patrimoine » tant sa place est forte dans « l’inconscient collectif » des Agenais. Pour chaque commémoration, la sempiternelle question se pose à ceux qui l’aiment : « Connaissons-nous le Poète ? », et chaque fois en répondant...

Journal - Eugène Delacroix   Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) est un peintre majeur du romantisme en peinture, mouvement arrivé en France au début du XIXe siècle.   Journal :   - Extrait :   Le Journal d’Eugène Delacroix...

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Vol. I (of II) By Dorothy Wordsworth

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician especially famous for Reggae music. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae...

Benjamin West was a British and American painter of historical pictures around the time of the American War of Independence, the president of the Royal Academy in London and the first American artist to achieve an international reputation. When West visited England in 1763, his paintings caused a...

Benvenuto Cellini gilt als einer der großen Bildhauer der Nachantike und als ein typischer "uomo universale" der italienischen Renaissance. Nachdem sein Werk mehrere hundert Jahre nahezu vergessen war, wurde es zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts neu entdeckt. Er wirkte an der Schwelle der Hochrenaissance...

The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast sky that lifted her soul. At twelve years of age Georgia had a defining moment when she declared,...

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