June 2013
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Inspiration: “Rosina,” by John Singer Sargent
Of Greek ancestry, Rosina Ferrara was born in Anacapri on the island of Capri in 1861. She is considered a descendant of Barbarossa, a 16th-century pirate.…
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Biography: John Constable
John Constable, born on June 11, 1776, in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England, is one of the most celebrated British landscape painters,…
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Romanticism – Emotion, Nature, and the Sublime
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that flourished from c. 1800 to 1850. It emerged as a reaction against…