Prince Grigory Gagarin was born in St Petersburg in 1811. Having spent his youth with his parents in Paris and Rome where his father served as an ambassador, Gagarin went on to study in Siena, at the ...
Alexander Brullov was born on November 29, 1798 in St Petersburg in the family of Pavel Brullo, a sculptor and ornamental artist of French origin. With his brother, Karl, Alexander received a special ...
As I was reading Mikhail Romm‘s book on directing in cinema, I came across a chapter on shots and framing, in which Romm illustrates different types of shots through the well-known paintings. I ...
Edward Lear was not only the author of the famous limericks, but was also a keen traveller and a gifted painter. As I was trying to find any online editions of his works on Italy (as a matter of fact,...
William A. Bougereau – The Abduction of Psyche For the Quotes on the Front Page today I chose a beautiful sonnet 22 by William Shakespeare. Although it speaks of the age difference, I pay but a ...
Your characters are mute, so to say; but they make me speak, and that I speak to myself. Tes personnages sont muets, si tu veux; mais ils font que je me parle, et que je m’entretiens avec moi-me...
This is not a book that one can read – if reading means to start at the first page and to finish on the last. Here it does not end. One can use this book their entire life. One can also read it ...
Photography and drawing – juxtaposition. For me, photography is a spontaneous impulse towards a constant visual attention that captures both the moment and eternity within it. A drawing, by its...
We must not think of a woman’s body as a covering for bones; it should not be fat though it should certainly be rounded; it should be firm and slender without thereby appearing to be thin. F. B...
Those who say I paint too quickly watch me too quickly. Vincent Van Gogh...