The Death of Caesar, 1867 Black Bashi Bazouk, c.1868 Napoleon in Egypt, 1867-1868 Pelt Merchant of Cairo, 1869 The Carpet Merchant of Cairo, c.1869 The Snake Charmer, c.1870 Pollice Verso, 1872 Arab Girl with Waterpipe, 1873 Eminence Grise – François Leclerc du Tremblay (detail), ...
I also like loads of personality in voice, a normal human being talking to me. The poems in this collection, in my mind, are thematically connected in that way and in voice. Many are of the domestic variety, the day-to-day with raising my family, death of parents, nostalgic memories,...
and the feats ofAlexander the GreatandJulius Caesar. However, it was during theRenaissancethat classicism saw a true resurgence. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the rise ofhumanism, a system of education that examinedhuman natureand fosteredindividualismover religious orthodoxy, renewed an appreciation...
Scene from the François Tomb. Death of the brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, sons of king Oedipus of Thebes. The brothers had agreed to rule on the throne of Thebes together but went to war against each other. The war is known as "The Seven against Thebes." ...