History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Gray, John

1 ‘Fanatical gush’. 1 As to the fallacies of this doctrine, I shall not enter into them here, for it would take me too far afield; but this is the ...
( Category: History February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Scott, Jeanne Filler [Scott, Jeanne Filler]

dark chestnut shadow (darkest shadows): Red Oxide, Burnt Umber and Ultramarine Blue highlight (highlights in the coat): Titanium White with a little Yellow Oxide, Red Oxide and Hansa Yellow Light ...
( Category: Plants & Animals February 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-09 | Author:David Standish [Standish, David]

Koreshan children dressed in costumes, standing in front of the Tea House. (Koreshan State Historic Site) They also had a little riverside outdoor theater. As Carl Carmer, a New Yorker ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Alexander Lee [Lee, Alexander]

THE UGLY: MERCENARIES ON THE EDGE OF MADNESS If condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood and Federico da Montefeltro were bad, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was the paradigm of all that was ...
( Category: History February 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Johnson, Cathy [Johnson, Cathy]

Materials Surface Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper Watercolor Pencils Blue Gray, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black Watercolor Crayons dark blue, orange and yellow hues of your choice 1. Draw ...
( Category: Plants & Animals February 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-01 | Author:Van Beek, Steve

The brick chedi of Chiengsaen's Wat Pasak, probably built in 1295, bas niches around the base and the upper tier to hold standing Buddha images. The city of Wiang Kungam ...
( Category: Criticism February 2,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Galdos, Benito Perez [Galdos, Benito Perez]

*“Discovery reveals that only nothingness grows”: from Leopardi’s poem “Ad Angelo Mai.” †A reference to Francesca di Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, who was damned for her illicit affair with the ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Jo Baker [Baker, Jo]

Mum and Dad had taken her to the Blackpool Illuminations. An autumn evening with a heaving dark sky. The gale had buffeted the little car. She had sat in the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Cynthia Saltzman [Saltzman Cynthia]

The “greatest Rembrandt” was a large, late ­self-­portrait, signed and dated 1658, when the artist was ­fifty-­two, and at what many believed to be the height of his powers. For ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

Florence Coombe Savagery Among the Black Islands A woman who was brought up on the South Pacific island of Norfolk and became a worker with the Melanesian Mission produced a ...
( Category: Ghosts January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Willis

These sketches and notes would form the main source material for Turner’s two magnificent paintings of Trafalgar and would plant a seed in his mind that would germinate thirty years ...
( Category: Naval January 29,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Robert Hughes [Hughes, Robert]

Goya, Asensio Juliá, 1798. Oil on canvas, 56 × 42 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. (illustration credit 6.27) Goya, Milagro de San Antonio de Padua (The Miracle of St. Anthony of ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

The Deluge is flanked by two other paintings representing scenes from the biblical story of Noah. The first of these, which can be identified as The Sacrifice of Noah, appears ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Gail Levin

BY 1955, KRASNER HAD TO LOOK TO HER OWN WORK FOR SOLACE. She must have determined not to let Pollock pull her down with him into the abyss. The critic ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )