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Classic is a published poet and a teacher with a doctorate in Health Sciences. Focusing on harmony within the
self and the environment, Classic's lenses explore a variety of unique topics, from animals to plants to traveling, shopping and Fine Arts.

Dali

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century.Dali was a skilled...

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), (full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato Cit...

John William Waterhouse

Waterhouse, known to his family and friends as Nino, was born in Italy in 1849 to English parents. He moved to London at an early age. His father was an artist and John William followed in his footsteps. This lens is dedicated to my favorite Waterhou...

Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His birth house today is a much visited museum, with an exhibiton of...

Mandevilla

Mandevilla, sometimes also called Dipladenia, is a genus of plants. It consists of about 100 species, mostly tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae, the Periwinkle family. Mandevillas develop spectacular flowers...

John William Godward

9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite into Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of pai...

Monarch Butterfly

Among all butterflies, orange ones fascinate me the most. Ever since I was a small child, I loved spending time in the meadows during summer, which were richly covered in wild flowers, and attracted various butterflies! Today, as a grown-up, this fas...

Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (March 1, 1444/45 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this move...

Marilyn Monroe

Throughout her acting career of 16 years, Marilyn Monroe  participated in 29 movies, 24 of these during the first 8 years of her career. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the f...

Sir Frank Dicksee

Francis Bernard Dicksee English pre-Raphaelite painter was born in London on the 27th November 1853, the son of Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895). A painter and illustrator, he was married to Eliza Bernard, but the painting below entitled Elsa (1927...

Budapest

Budapest (pronounced Budapesht) is the capitol of Hungary, and the country's political, cultural, commercial, industrial and transportation hub. The official language spoken is Hungarian, only related to the Finnish language (both languages are in th...

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and...

Limoges Porcelain

This lens will explore the porcelain style known to collectors as Limoges. Limoges is not really a maker's brand, rather, it is a collection of excellent, highly refined porcelain manufacturers who settled in and around the city of Limoges in France....

Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo (December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to P...

Lord Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was born in Scarborough to a family in the import &...

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she grew up in the East Falls section, the third of four children to John Brendan Kelly, Sr., also known as Jack Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer Kelly. Grace's siblings, in order of age, w...

Herend Porcelain

If you have read my other lens about the Monarch, by now it should be no secret for you that I love orange butterflies. Herend Fortuna porcelain is satisfying two needs of mine, (1) that of aesthetics, and (2) that of surrounding myself with orange b...

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren, the probably most famous Italian actress of the 20th century, was born September 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy as Sofia Villani Scicolone. Her parents, an aspiring actress and an established engineer, never married. She experienced extreme po...

Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (September 10, 1890 – November 13, 1973) was a Parisian fashion designer of the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in Rome, Italy, of Italian and Egyptian heritage. She was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the...

Bernstein Zimmer Amber Room

This lens describes the famous Bernstein Zimmer as the Amber Room is called in German. Information about the mysterious disappearance of this masterpiece of Art, as well as a description of the new, restored version of the room is provided.  Wha...

Japanese Flowering Cherry

This lens is about one of the most beautiful ornamental trees, the Japanese Flowering Cherry. Flowering cherry trees (known as 'ornamental cherries') have the stamens and pistils replaced by additional petals ("double" flowers), so are ster...

Louvre

French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is the most visited and one of the oldest, largest, and most famous art galleries and museums in the world. The Louvre has a long history of artistic and historic conservation, inaugurated in the Cape...

Art Nouveau

An international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s. The name derives from the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery opened in Paris in 1896, but in fact the movement had different names througho...

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made of sponge lady finger biscuits, espresso coffee, mascarpone cheese, eggs, cream, sugar, Marsala wine, cocoa, and rum. The Italian name tiramisù means "pick-me-up" (metaphorically, "make me hap...

Kutani Porcelain

This lens is about one of my favorite Japanese Antique porcelain styles named KUTANI. I hope you'll enjoy reading about it! It is not only beautiful and highly valuable, but also rich in historical and Artistic content. Look at the picture and review...

Classic Treasures

It is our pleasure to introduce you to this on-line store Classic Treasures! The choice of name is accurately describing the items offered; they could be your treasures soon! If you enjoy classically elegant vintage and new clothing, handbags and Art...

Oscar de la Renta

This lens is about my all time favorite fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. He understands feminine elegance and female beauty like only a few others in the fashion industry. A multiply talented Artist, his message is clearly, "Feel well, enjoy...

Satsuma Porcelain

This lens is about Japanese Satsuma porcelain, one in a series of lenses I will write about Asian Antique ware. I have been admiring  Satsuma porcelain since I was little, and never left out an opportunity in my travels to visit the museums exhi...

Balaton

Lake Balaton is one of Hungary's most admired travel and tourist destinations, both nationally and internationally. This lake inspired Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, stretching almost 75 kilometers long with t...

Iznik

This lens is about Iznik, the town and its probably most famous product, the Iznik tile. Iznik, which is 85 km. from Bursa, having fertile land and vast historical assets together with a beautiful lake, is known worldwide for its tiles. It was an imp...

Adrienne Vittadini

Adrienne Vittadini (b. 1945, Budapest) is a renowned American fashion designer. When she was 12, her family fled Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In 1979, she started what would become a multi-million dollar fashion business as a hobby....

Tiffany Design

Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) made a lasting impact on stained glass Art as well as interior design. More than a 100 years after his family started to create these beautiful items, the Tiffany style is still very popula...

Cary Grant

British born actor Cary Grant (by his civil name, Archibald Alec Leach) arrived to Earth January 18, 1904 and died November 29, 1986. With his prominent Brittish accent and gentleman-like manners he became the liebling of Hollywood. He was handsome,...

Imari Porcelain

This lens is one in a series of lenses I will write about Asian Antiques, especially Japanese and Chinese Art. I always admired the intricate beauty of old Japanese porcelain and earthenware. In this lens I will introduce the reader to the Imari styl...

Cultured versus Natural Pearl

Ever since the history of mankind, women (and men alike) have been fascinated with finding pearls, creating jewelry of pearls, and wearing pearls. It is such a wide-spread passion, that just like with all items desired by masses, a lot of fakes have...

Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is a famous American actor. He first was discovered during the 1980s, after appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including An Officer and a Gentleman; and again during the 1990s and 2000s, when...

Sir Alfred Munnings

Alfred John Munnings (1878-1959) is known as one of England's most talented painters of horses. During  WWI his engagement by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund led to a series of prestigious post-war commissions that made him a wea...

Tanabata Star Festival

Tanabata Festival is a traditional celebration held in Japan in July, as a tribute to love. Tanabata are colorful paper stipes on which people write their secret wishes in the hope these come true.

Faberge Egg

A Fabergé egg is one of 50 (52 if we count the unfinished Karelian Birch and Tsarevich Constellation eggs) Easter gifts made by Peter Carl Fabergé between 1855 and 1917 for the Russian Tsars and their family members. Faberge Eggs obtain...

Tiziano

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1485 – August 27, 1576), better known as Titian was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Cadore Veneto), in Most Serene Re...

Meissner Porcelain

This lens is about the Meissner porcelain, an admired European antique, that came to being more or less by coincidence. Wouldn't it be for the almost obsessive collection lust of  August the Strong, Elector of Saxony (1694-1733) who believed it...

Snow Leopard

The life span of a Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia) is normally 15-18 years, but in captivity they may become up to 20 years old. The body weight of a fully grown Snow Leopard is approximately 75 lbs. Find out more about these majestic animals, of which on...

Sequoia Tree

See the huge dark thing behind the little green tree in the picture? That's a Giant Seqouia  Sempervirens! (Shh, the little tree is about 24 feet tall). Fossil findings prove that the ancestors of redwood trees were wide-spread on Earth up to a...

Albatross

If you are passionate about the Environment and Nature WITHOUT being radical or fanatic in your thinking you're welcome to join my Squidoo group Nature and Environment! This is a group for people who accept diversity and encourage free speech, who wi...

Paperweight

This lens is about paperweights, mostly the heavy Murano style glass paperweight which come in so many shapes, sizes and colors! They steal your heart at the first glance at an estate sale, and then you find yourself with a large box you eagerly rumm...

Blanc de Chine

Blanc de Chine also known as Dehua or Monochrome porcelain is called so because it involves items without colorful details, made in one color only which is usually white (blanc = white in French). Cherished by Chinese and Western connoisseurs des Art...

Mabe Blister Pearl

This lens is about the phenomenal round, heart shaped and square Mabe pearls so many women admire! While some Mabe pearls are made by clam living in salt water, today, the vast majority of Mabe blister pearls jewelry is coming from freshwater (FW) cl...

Sevres porcelain

In this lens I will decribe the origin, the history and the characetristics of Sèvres Porcelain. Sevres porcelain was known for centuries in France as the Porcelain of the Kings and the King of Porcelains [Le Roi des Porcelains et Le Porcelain...

Peter Sellers

Master impressionist Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers on September 8, 1925 in Southsea, Hampshire, England. His parents, Agnes (Peg) and Bill Sellers, later called him Peter in memory of his stillborn brother. Sellers' parents were vaudev...

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art obj...

Mouse Deer of Malaysia and Borneo

I wanted to write about this fascinating creature, the Mouse Deer, for a long time now. It is an animal barely larger than a rabbit, and it looks so funny with its large ears, pointed nose, mustache and slender long legs, supporting a rather chubby b...

Hummingbird

This lens was born out of a desire to bring together some nice pictures and information about one of my all time favorite birds, the tiny but mighty Hummingbird. You'll find some important info here about the world's smallest bird, the Bee Hummingbir...

Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Master...

George Romney

George Romney (December 26, 1734 – November 15, 1802) was a noted English portrait painter. He was born on Boxing Day 1734 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, and apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker. In 1755 he went to Kendal to learn pa...

Zsazsa Gabor

Zsazsa Gabor, the Hungarian born Hollywood actress was beautiful when she was young; and even today she looks great for her age!  What few people know is, Zsazsa is only one of three gorgeous sisters, the Gabor sisters: Eva, Magda and Zsazsa, al...

Kumari

The life of a Kumari begins and ends with the first day of being crowned and the last day spent in painful loneliness in the dim-lit corridors of a palace with whispering attendants. A child when selected, and scorned after she enters puberty, Kumari...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (January 8, 1836, Dronrijp, the Netherlands.- June 25, 1912 Wiesbaden, Germany ) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Academy...

George Clooney

George Clooney, born May 6, 1961,  is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe winning American actor, producer and screen writer, with a lady-killer smile. He is often referred to as "The sexiest man alive." In all of the interview...

Chocolate Covered Fruit

Who doesn't like chocolate? Especially when it is filled with real fruit, like strawberries, cherries, apricots or pears. Chocolate covered fruit is a sumptuous dessert and a temptation only few can resist. With the sugar free version, even Diabetics...

Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera (born January 8, 1939 as María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño in Caracas, Venezuela) is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980 with great success. Based in New York City since 1...

Richard Burton

Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. Known for his distinctive voice, he was nominated seven times for Academy Awards for acting, yet never won. He wa...

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon.

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933—29 June 1967) was an American actress, Playboy centerfold and sex symbol. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield was the Playmate of the Month in Playboy in February 1955....

Rumpelstilzchen

The Grimm Brothers wrote many wonderful tales, and I enjoyed them while growing up. The story of Rumpelstilzchen is one of them. Ach wie gut dass keiner weiß dass ich Rumpelztilzchen heiß! "Today I bake, tomorrow brew, The next I'll h...

Prado

The Museo del Prado also referred to es El Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, Spain on the European continetn; the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century through th...

Jean Honore Fragonard

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806). French painter whose scenes of frivolity and gallantry are among the most complete embodiments of the Rococo spirit. He was a pupil of Chardin for a short while and also of Boucher, before winning the Prix d...

Ingrid Bergman

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William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was a British painter. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt's was initially given the middle name "Hobman", which he disliked intensely. He chose to c...

Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is a Tunisian-Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia to Italian parents. Many of the films she has appeared in including 8½ (1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) have consistently been voted amo...

Robert Redford

Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18, 1936), is an American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford is still in the he...

Gemstone Silver Jewelry

This lens offers a historical review of genuine gemstone .925 silver jewelry. You may find exquisite designs and high quality yet affordable natural gemstone sterling silver jewelry, rings, bracelets, earrings, pendants and necklaces in our store Cla...

Zoltan Kodaly

Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) was born in Kecskemet, Hungary. Brought up in the country, he knew folk music from childhood and also learnt to play the piano and string instruments, and to compose, all with little tuition. In 1900 he went to Budapest to s...

Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of th...

Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, KBE born (31st December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000.

Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (born November 30, 1825 – died August 19, 1905 in La Rochelle, France) was a French academic painter. A student at the L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1850. His realistic paintings and myth...

Raspberry Pavlova

Raspberry Pavlova is a meringue dessert, the most famous version of it being raspberry. However, you may prepare the same dessert with other types of fruit, as long as you also use lots of whipped cream. On this picture, another version, the chocolat...

O'Keeffe

 Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887—March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is typically associated with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in Ameri...

Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the development of the (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painterImpressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re...

Art Deco

Art Deco is a style that was popular bewtween 1920-1939 in Europe. Many of the Art Deco designers rejected traditional materials for their work and chose instead more unusual materials like ebony, steel, marble and rare and expensive types of wood. T...

Crux Pearl Jewelry

A few years ago, before I even had my own website Classic Treasures selling jewelry and apparel, I've received a beautiful pendant as a birthday gift, similar to this one. The pendant was a huge, wire-wrapped Crux Pearl, also known as Cross Pearl, wi...

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more than fifty featu...

Liza Minelli

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George Henry Boughton

George Henry Boughton (1834-1905) was an Anglo-American painter.  THIS LENS IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. PLEASE VISIT SOON! He was born in England, but his parents immigrated to the United States in 1839, and he grew up in Albany, New York. He st...

Bela Bartok

Béla Bartók was one of the leading Hungarian and European composers of his time, proficient also as a pianist. He joined his friend Zoltán Kodály in the collection of folk-music in Hungary and countries of the Balkan. His...

Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson winning , is an iconic Academy AwardAmerican method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.

Angelina Jolie

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George Stubbs

George Stubbs (born in Liverpool on August 25, 1724 – died in London July 10, 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses. This lens is under development, sorry for the saffolding! Please visit later! Thanks for your pat...

William Heath

William Heath (1795 - 1840) was a British artist. He was best known for his published engravings which included caricatures, political cartoons, and commentary on contemporary life. His early works often dealt with military scenes, but from about 182...

Elizabeth Taylor

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Clint Eastwood

This lens is under construction. Please visit later again! Thanks :o) Born in San Francisco in 1930, Eastwood moved often as a child as his father worked a variety of jobs along the West Coast. The family settled in Piedmont, California during his tee...

Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Re...

Jane Fonda

 Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards a...

The Brothers Grimm

The Grimm Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German story tellers, who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales,and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's Law)....

Hans Christian Andersen

"He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome,...

Judy Garland

Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Garland's singing voice most notably contained a very recognizable v...

Gregory Peck

 Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of h...

Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He became famous during the mid 1990s after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including Interview with the Vampire in 1994 an...

Julia Roberts

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George Soros

George Soros, pronounced [ʃoroʃ] (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Re...

Tony Curtis

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Michelle Pfeiffer

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