Click on the painting to enlarge it. …Every now and then there blows in through my window, opening on to the garden, a breath of the music of Chopin, who is at work in his room, and it mingles with the song of the nightingales and the scent of the roses…..* Eugene Delacroix, […]
Click on the works of art to enhance them. Have you ever wondered how you would look if your portrait were painted by a close friend? Twenty something Renoir (1841-1919), here an aspiring Parisian artist in 1867, must have approved of his portrayal by his colleague and comrade Frederic Bazille (1841-1870). For he […]
“Lautrec’s powerful portrait of Van Gogh is a rare pastel, showing the Dutchman seated at a cafe table. There is nothing to show that the sitter is an artist, though the thrusting diagonal of his back, his alert gaze (created with just a dab of olive green), and the revealing tension in his […]
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