An Elegantly Dressed Lady Seated at a Table, Reading a Letter (1776). Pierre-Alexandre Wille (French, 1748-after 1821). Oil on canvas. Wille was the son of engraver Jean-Georges Wille and a student of...
Great books you can read in quarantine, organized by level of difficulty.
Neaera Reading a Letter from Catullus (c.1894). Henry John Hudson (British, 1862-1911). Oil on canvas. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. "The poet who called himself Lygdamus, author of the elegies to...
Auguste Bernard, called Bernard d'Agesci, c. 1780
The Letter (1903). Arthur M. Hazard (American, 1872–1930). Hazard made his career in Boston, where he focused on landscape and portrait painting, including commissioned portraits of prominent...
Editor’s note: This article was written through a collaboration between C. Daniel Motley and the AoM Team. Matthew Arnold, a Victorian poet, once claimed, “The crown of literature is poetry,” and if
Post dedicado à Clarissa Rodríguez, Maria da Graça Bastos e Dandara Machado, grandes incentivadoras deste blog. Muitíssimo obrigada ! GUSTAVE JEAN JACQUET ALBERTO PISA DAVID EMILE JOSEPH DE NOTER M…
Le roman d'amour Reading by the fire La lettre Femme lisant près de la fenêtre The letter Le roman Une lettre Reading by lamplight A son bureau Lady reading by lamplight Reading by the lamp After tea A summer evening on the Riviera Delphin Enjolras born May 13, 1865 in Coucouron, France died 1945 more: Google pictures Wikipedia Wahoo art
English paintings, English art
Rules for proper correspondence encompassed everything from acceptable shades of ink to conditions under which a woman must write in the third person.
In A Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing (above), Gabriel Metsu depicted himself as a nobleman and hunter, but of course the unusual twist to the depiction was the fact that he depicted himself in…
The Letter. Vicente Palmaroli y González (Spanish, 1834-1896). Oil on cradled panel. In 1872, Palmaroli was named a Professor at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. A year later, he...
Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith, prolific American illustrator, for the 1915 edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Leben oder Theater Charlotte Salomon born April 16, 1917 in Berlin, Germany died October 10, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland more: Wikipedia Joods Historisch Museum Encyclopedia Google pictures
Editor’s note: This article was written through a collaboration between C. Daniel Motley and the AoM Team. Matthew Arnold, a Victorian poet, once claimed, “The crown of literature is poetry,” and if
Haynes King 1831-1904 Engeland
