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1. John William Godward Posters Prints Fine Art Little is known of painter John William Godward. Despite family objections to his pursuing an artistic career, Godward followed his desires and studied art, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1887. In 1912, Godward traveled to Italy with a dark hai...
2. Eugene Delacroix Prints Paintings Fine Art Eugene Delacroix (French, 1798-1863) Eugene Ferdinand Victor Delacroix was born in Saint- Maurice-Charenton France in 1798 and became known as a leader of the French romantic movement. Originally studying music, Delacroix turned his attentions to pai...
3. John Collier Art Posters Prints Fine Art John Collier (British, 1850-1934) John Collier was born in London the son of a judge, Sir Robert Collier. He studied sat Slade School of Art under Sir Edward Poynter then later in Paris with J.P. Laurens in Munich, and was a pupil of Alma-Tadema. His...
4. Romantic Birthday Ideas If you are newly married and have yet to start your family, you should take advantage of the time you have to spend together.It is nice to know that our partner is making special effort to make birthday memorable.It is important that your relationshi...
5. William Bouguereau William Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a popular nineteenth-century French painter often overlooked in modern studies of art. Bouguereau's training in the Academic style of art began with Classical and Biblical subjects under t...
6. Lord Byron: The Life and Work of a Poet The poet Lord Byron, whose full name was George Gordon Byron, was an outstanding figure of the Romantic movement. Born in 1788, his life and poetry present examples of the excitement and despair of the early 19th Century. The following is a study of...
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writer Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a French-Swiss thinker and writer. His novels included Julie, or the New Heloise and was a great contribution to the Romantic movement in literature. Other great works by Rousseau included The Social Contract, Em...
8. Classic Romantic Poetry I was cleaning out my old books when I came across a little black notebook that I had been filling with romantic poetry when I was a teenager. I was a hopeless romantic and was addicted to Shakespeare and romance novels. As I read the poems for the f...
9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a Swiss-French thinker, novelist, and social theorist. He constantly sought to promote freedom, human rights (including the rights of the common man) and democracy, and was a great inspiration to the leaders of Fr...
10. Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand Delacroix (1798 - 1863) was a French Romantic painter. He rejected the Neo-Classicism of Daid and Ingres, and instead sought the extremes of human emotion and activity, with current events often shown, depicting these through the use of gl...
11. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) was a French painter and leader of the Neo-Classical school of French painting in the mid-19th century. A student of Jean-Louis David, he was a master draughtsman and technician who based his works on a st...
12. Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - Famous Russian Poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, dramatist, novelist. By many he is still considered Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
13. The Dark World Of BW RECKNAGEL - New Classical Composer Launches Debut Album "Nihilum" London based, German classical composer BW Recknagel has launched his new website http://www.bwrecknagel.com and Album Release "Nihilum", available as download only, in June 2009.