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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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Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents,...

The Story of the Drama Cell No. 12 The Crime and the Public Monsieur Caillaux's Examination The Campaign of the “Figaro” Calmette v. Caillaux The “Ton Jo” Letter Agadir L'Affaire Rochette “The Truth, The Whole Truth ...” About French Politics Before the Last Act of the Drama

Il est un reproche qu’on adresse volontiers aux architectes de notre époque : c’est celui de n’avoir rien su innover, de faire des constructions solides, gracieuses peut-être, mais sans cachet, sans caractère distinctif. Jamais on ne restaura les vieux monuments avec plus de goût, avec...

Les murmures de Saint-Pierre A la pointe de Penmarc’h, en pays bigouden, se dresse , depuis 1897, le phare d’Eckmühl : « le plus puissant de tout l’Univers disait-on alors ». A l’occasion du centenaire de son inauguration , en 1997, des peintres amateurs ont dressé une...

Once classified as an Impressionist, Manet has subsequently been regarded as a Realist who influenced and was influenced by the Impressionist painters of the 1870s, though he never exhibited with them nor adopted fully their ideas and procedures. His painting is notable for its brilliant prima vista...

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.

Dieses eBook: "Das Zillebuch: Der Mann und das Werk (Autobiographie von Heinrich Zille)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Heinrich Rudolf Zille (1858-1929) war ein deutscher Grafiker, Maler und Fotograf. In seiner...

Jennifer Lopez is an American actress, author, fashion designer, dancer, producer, and singer.   Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993....

Mel Gibson is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He is most well known as an action hero, for roles such as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon film series and Max Rockatansky in the first three Mad Max films.   In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in the...

Alan Rickman, the great British actor and beloved Professor Snape passed away at the age of 69. Rickman with his undeniable charm and a hypnotic charisma stole millions of hearts across the world. Rickman's words, with his remarkable voice, will always resonate in our hearts. Here are some of his most memorable quotes which he left for us to cherish him by.