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Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883-1950)
Ethel Léontine Gabain, later Ethel Copley, was a French-Scottish artist.Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club.While she was known for her...
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Ivan Malinowski | Adesso è il momento..!
Adesso è il momento di fare ciò che ti piace.Non aspettare lunedì, non aspettare domani.Non fare allungare davanti a te la carovanadi sogni calpestati. Non aspettare.Non frenarti per paura o viltà.Non...
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Anton Chekhov: "Only one who loves can remember so well"
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / Антон Павлович Чехов (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high...
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6 Famous Sculptures of the Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Galleria Borghese Museum houses and displays a collection of ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries.Among...
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Sphinx of Naxos
The Sphinx of Naxos, also Sphinx of the Naxians, now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, is a 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and...
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Hayley Lever| Impressionist painter
Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher.His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer...
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Zinaida Serebriakova's 140th Birthday
Russian-born French painter Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova / Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва (1884-1967), born on this day in 1884, 140 years ago, was the First Famous Female Russian Artist.Zinaida...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Guernsey, 1883
Between late summer and early autumn of 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent over a month on the Channel Island of Guernsey, lodging at no. 4 of George Road, St. Peter Port.The beach of Moulin Huet, and...
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Detlev Nitschke, 1935 | Impressionist painter
The German artist Detlev Nitschke is mainly known for his picturesque scenes and outdoor paintings (plein air), which he developed into designs for calendars and maps.In 1954 he graduated from school...
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Vincent Van Gogh | A Lane near Arles, 1888
A Lane Near Arles (Allee bei Arles) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, while he was living in Arles.It depicts a lane surrounded by trees running between the fields outside Arles, France.A Lane...
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5 Masterpieces from the Hermitage
The State Hermitage Museum / Государственный Эрмитаж has been open to the public since 1852.It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin...
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Lisi Martin, 1944 | Children Illustrator
Spanish illustrator Lisi Martin was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.She is the younger of 2 children, having an older brother.She was a quiet child and claims to have started drawing at the age of 4 as a...
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Théophile Deyrolle | Genre painter
Théophile-Louis Deyrolle (16 December 1844, Paris - 14 December 1923, Concarneau) was a French painter, illustrator and ceramicist.He came from a family of entomologists and naturalists who owned a...
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William Shakespeare | All the world's a stage / Tutto il mondo è un palcoscenico
"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It (believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio...
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Sarah Jarrett | Pop Surrealism painter
Sarah Jarrett is a collage artist and illustrator based in Norfolk, UK.She is fascinated and inspired by the human relationship with nature and the natural world.She loves plants, flowers, and...
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Christmas with Jenny Nyström
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (1854-1946) was a painter and illustrator mainly known as the creator of the Swedish image of the jultomte on Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version...
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Charles Dickens | Mr. Pickwick's Christmas
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers, 1836) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies,...
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Rabindranath Tagore | Dove la mente è senza paura / Where the mind is without...
"Dove la mente è senza paura" è una poesia scritta dal premio Nobel (1913) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) prima dell'indipendenza dell'India.Rappresenta la visione di Tagore di una India nuova e...
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Olga Dugina, 1964 | 1001 Nights
Sheherazade, the king's beautiful wife, is due to be executed at dawn - unless she can convince the king to change his mind.That night she tells him a wonderful story which, as dawn comes, she leaves...
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Così parlò Zarathustra | Nietzsche, 1885
Così parlò ZarathustraParte seconda | Il canto notturnoÈ notte: solo ora si svegliano tutti i canti degli amanti. E anche la mia anima è il canto di un amante.Qualcosa di insaziato, insaziabile è in...
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