By 1902,Edvard Munch’s life had seen a pattern of chaos within his professional life, his health, and his love life. While his life had become solitary, his artwork was not destined to remain stacked against the walls, as was his habit. In fact, this was the year when his almost ran...
For a few years the California Steins formed, improbably enough, the most important incubator for the Parisian avant-garde. Leo led the way. The fourth of five surviving children born to a German Jewish family that had relocated from Baltimore to Pittsburgh and eventually to the San...
Juan Luna’s celebrated Impressionist painting, “The Parisian Life,” a gift ofJuan Lunato Dr. Ariston Bautista, was originally displayed on the wall of thesala. The original painting, formerly displayed at the GSIS Museum, is now at theNational Museum of Fine Arts. Replica of “The Parisia...
In all arenas of economic life, the law structured and regulated women’s labor and commercial pursuits, but equally constituted a tool that women could use to their and their families’ advantage. Credit and Debt The creditor-debtor relationship, enforced by debt litigation in local courts, was...
Because of a severe nervous malady, probably epilepsy, he spent much of his life at Croisset, near Rouen, with his mother and niece. Nonetheless, he also became an established figure in the Parisian social and literary world. In 1856, after five years of work, Flaubert published his master...
Extant artists’ frames inpâte coulantefrom the late 19thcentury are rare and therefore seldom available for structural analysis. One exception is an extremely complicated period frame inpâte coulanteattributed to Maison Cluzel (above), which was once owned by the Parisian antique frame dealer...
“superficial books that give pat answers to life’s unsolvable mysteries. They are “an ancient genre — the literature of wisdom, the philosophy of living.” (I even read one of the self-help books she recommends,The Four Agreements, which she says is “about the power of simple, ...
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The defeat of the Parisian insurrection of June 1848 — the first great battle between proletariat and bourgeoisie — drove again into the background, for a time, the social and political aspirations of the European working class. Thenceforth, the struggle for supremacy was, again, as it had ...
Massenet’s Werther [1892]), Dante relishes its own characteristic, stylistic verve. Furthermore, there’s a weighty Werther-like charge, ignited in strength and dignified in detail. M. Godard loosely follows the life of Dante Alighieri where we initially experience a war-torn city (Florence)...