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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important...

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing together essays on literature, art, politics, religion, architecture, marketing, and imperial history, the study highlights the extent to which...

Frederick S. Dellenbaugh The Grand Canyon Looking south from the Kaibab Plateau, North Rim, near the head of Bright Angel Creek, the canyon of which is seen in the foreground. The San Francisco Mountains are in the distance. On the South Rim to the right, out of the picture, is the location of the...

This 1888 volume showcased Butler's encyclopedic knowledge of the art of Northern Italy and helped acquaint a wide English readership with the art of Tabachetti and Gaudenzio Ferrari at Varallo.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640), was a Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality. He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological...

This is one of the best inspirational book, it is full of wisdom and instructions about life. This is a really interesting book - it had such a profound effect on its intended audience at the time and still influences contemporary politics. For all that, it's surprisingly easy reading!

From the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award-nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films. Although he also began directing...

This book will offer you the opportunity to know how a rich person thinks and lives. Probably, most of what you will read is completely unknown to you, and yet it reflect the reality within my life. The information here presented is filled with real stories about real people, as well as experiences,...

The following Preface to the Life of Columbus will explain the plan of the series, of which this is the third volume:— "There is no kind of reading more attractive than biography, and, if properly treated, there is none more instructive. It appears, therefore, to be peculiarly fitted to the purposes...

Well, my little friends, here is your old acquaintance, Peter Parley, come to tell some more of his amusing Tales. You wonder, I dare say, what could tempt such a frail old man as I am to leave home, and come so far. You shall hear. A Coronation, you must know, is a sight not to be seen every day...

Excerpt: "It is an oft-quoted proposition of Rousseau, that “the glory of woman lies in being unknown.” If this be true, we shall deserve little credit for placing before the world these brief sketches of a few of the sex who have acquired celebrity among mankind. We are disposed to think,...