Frank Carlson Library

"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their...

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuentetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828) Goya est peut-être le peintre le plus accessible entre tous. Son art, comme sa vie, est un livre ouvert. Il ne cachait rien de ses contemporains, et leur offrait son art avec la même franchise. L'entrée dans son monde n'est pas barricadée de difficultés techniques. Il prouva que si un homme a la capacité de vivre et de multiplier ses expériences, de se battre et de travailler,...

Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David. This is the sole point of contact discernible between the classicism of David and English art,...

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863). Delacroix fut l'un des plus grands coloristes du XIXe siècle. La couleur était pour lui un moyen d'expression déterminant, qui avait la préséance sur la forme et les détails. Il parlait à l'oeil, moins à la raison. Il se nourrissait des oeuvres des coloristes du Louvre, en particulier de Rubens. Spirituellement, Delacroix s'inscrivait au coeur du mouvement romantique...

Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the English painter Sir John Everett Millais was a principal figure of nineteenth century British art. Along with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he confronted the art establishment with a daring challenge to ignore 500 years of history and the corrupting influence of Raphael. A remarkable range of paintings sought a bold return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of the early Renaissance....

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) était un peintre du classicisme français qui prônait clarté et logique dans ses tableaux. Il peignait souvent de larges scènes mythologiques ou bibliques, mais il était également au premier rang de la peinture de paysage. Il fut premier peintre du roi Louis XIII, mais passa la majeure partie de sa vie à Rome. Sa manière devint le style officiel enseigné à l'Académie durant le reste du XVIIe siècle. Par la suite,...

The Victorian era produced many famous artists and styles. John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were part of the famous pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose willowy models were often seen in the works of several of the artists. One of the most famous was Elizabeth Siddall, an artist in her own right, who posed for Millais Ophelia, married to Rossetti, and posed for him, Holman Hunt and Walter Deverell. This fascinating book is a must for everyone...

Gobeklitepe, the oldest temple in the world, awakened from its 12,000 years of sleep to tell hacker Kamil a secret. A secret, locked behind the sealed tongue of its guardian, that can only be, heard by to the wise and capable... Kamil is, forced to unravel Gobeklitepe's mysteries, when a stranger from the southeastern Turkish town of Urfa arrives on his doorstep, asking to buy his house. Kamil, the only Jew left in ancient Carian city of Milas, just...

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was...