June 2013
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.…
Biography: John Constable
John Constable, born on June 11, 1776, in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England, is one of the most celebrated British landscape painters,…
Slovakia: The History of its Art
The oldest Slovak art lives in the earth—buried in burial mounds, etched into cliff walls, and shaped in the hands of…
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…
