Learn to Crochet Today! Crocheting is a worthwhile hobby. Studies showed that the repetitive action in crocheting is a good stress buster. It can help calm the mind and body. It may be an age old craf
"In this admirable work, at once passionately argued and lucidly written, Professor Garrard effectively considers the social, psychological, and formal complexity of the shaping and reshaping not only
Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Cara
Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of natureufrom an organic worldview to the scientificuwas assisted by th
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to “lose oneself” in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was also thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, Jean Honoré Fragonard, perhaps the most significant French painter of the eighteenth century, was condemned first as a purveyor of luxury items and lat
In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal b
