Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that...
Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays,...
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,...
This publication is dedicated to Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). He began as a decorator of pottery, but then moved to Paris, and he came into contact with the Impressionists exhibiting in major group exhibitions. A friend of Monet and Sisley,...