<a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/21521323/?claim=mn267vcxkpq">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Henry Thiriet, the Legendary Poster Artist Who was Henry Thiriet? Today he is best known by wih poster art in signature Art Nouveau style, yet he created much more. He illustrated books, designed c…

Marianne Stokes (1855-1927) Marianne Stokes was born Maria Leopoldine Preindlsberger in Graz, Austria, and always wanted to become a painter. At 15 years old, she was already studying at Graz Drawing Academy, where she spent four years hon…

Life Arthur Rackham was born as the fourth of twelve children by Alfred Thomas and Anne Rackham on September 19, 1867. Alfred Thomas Rackham served as a clerk in the Registry of Admiralty Court and eventually became an appointed Admiralty …

Quattrocento is formally the art period starting in 1401 with a competition to design the doors of Baptistry in Florence and ending in 1503 with the proclamation of Pope Julius II. The word, of course, comes from Italian number for four hu…

The Pied Piper of Hamelin also known as The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin is a story about a stranger, dressed in colorful clothes who came into the city of Hamelin, the western part of today's Germany. The city was heavily infested with rats, th…

Short analysis of character Othello by Shakespeare Othello (also titled The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor from Venice) is a well-known play written by William Shakespeare, for the first time performed at the beginning of the 17th century an…

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian dancer of Polish nationality, born in Ukraine, married to Hungarian in Argentina, whose career peaked in France, made tours across America and Africa, and was hospitalized in Switzerland. He died in England, i…

You probably heard about Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926), but it is very likely his first name is new to you. His parents called him only by his first name, by the way, but this is not the only interesting trivia from a long and fruitful li…

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a great Hungarian musician and composer, maybe the best pianist of all times, who left an impressive legacy of hundreds of compositions and arrangements. He showed unbelievable talent at a very early age and thi…

Angelica Kauffmann was probably the most famous female artist of the 18th century. She was extremely popular portraitist, portraying European royalty and other affluent people, historical painter and engraver, whose style can be described …

"If you have to ask what is jazz, you’ll never know.” Louis Armstrong Jazz is the music genre which is probably hardest of all to define. We can pretty safely presume the history of jazz started at the end of 19th century in southern parts…

What is impressionism and why we should care? Impressionism is a name of the artistic movement which started in second half of 19th century in France among painters and soon expanded in other countries and other artistic areas. The name wa…

Who was Homer? When we mention his name Iliad and Odyssey immediately come to one’s mind. Homer is without a doubt the most famous poet of antiquity. Unfortunately, we can’t say much about his life and work. Everything is far from facts an…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is by quality and impact of his work compared with Dante, Homer, Shakespeare and other immortals. He was not only an artist, he studied law, just like many other famous writers (Brothers Grimm, Charle…

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) is one of the most famous fabulists of all times. Today his work is associated with children literature, but, just like in many other cases, kids were never his target group. If we read his Fables today, thi…

Edmund Evans (1826-1905) was probably the most important printer in the history of picture books. As a kid, he showed a lot of talent for drawing and dropped school at 14 years to become an apprentice at well established and influential Eb…

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Albrecht Durer was the most important Northern Renaissance (cultural movement of Renaissance occurring North of Alps, while original Renaissance started in Italy) artist. He was a painter, an engraver, a printer,…

Frederic Chopin (1810-1839)This famous romantic composer and a superb piano player is of course widely known by is music, but I decided to choose few interesting facts from his personal life to present him in a different light. He was born…

Facts about Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) 1. He was an illegitimate son of Florentine Boccaccio di Chellino di Buonaiuto and an unknown lady from France. His father deserted the lady but took care of the son. 2. Birthplace of Giovanni Boc…

We tend to look for simple, no more than one line long definition of art, but this in most cases produce rather disappointing results. It seems elusiveness is on major attributes of the art which can be quite paradoxical. On one hand it ‘w…