ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI 1/4 – She was a Baroque-period painter, known for such works as “Susanna and the Elders” and “Judith Slaying Holofernes.” She lost her mother when she was 12 years old, and suffered another tragedy five years later (when she was raped by one of her father’s colleagues). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEa0ibrXqSk She married a painter from Florence, but their union wasn’t …

It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000, as the Experience Music Project. The Museum of Pop Culture, is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture. The EMP museum has organized dozens of exhibits, across the US and internationally. http://www.empmuseum.org/ For music lovers, Seattle means Nirvana. While parents discover the history of rock, children can become rock …

Though the band dissolved in 1994, their music continues to inspire and influence modern rock. Went through a succession of drummers (the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. Has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important alternative bands in history. Nirvana http://www.nirvana.com/ was an rock band formed by singer and guitarist …

LORENZO LOTTO 1/4 – His work appeals to a modern audience, particularly because of the way he identifies with his subjects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-d-ZhfeylE Well known for his perceptive portraits (and mystical paintings of religious subjects), he represents one of the best examples of the relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian schools. In the earlier years of his life, he lived …

Wroklovek, gleefully celebrating whoever comes, his heart in his hand. Botanik, in Spring as in the Snow, he loves playing his big trumpet made of flower petals. Obiezysmak, he ate so much that almost burst his trousers. You’re walking through the streets of Wroclaw, Poland. http://visitwroclaw.eu/en What you see is a gnome, one of more than 300 people living with …

Here www.bannermancastle.org/index.html you can reach with a short ferried, with the certainty of finding the charm of a place where nature reigns, where two hours by train you put away from the hustle and bustle of New York, enjoy the silence, listening to the soothing sound of the waves and the birds chirping. Bannerman Island is a small piece of …

Although one passageway remains, the original houses are long gone. In their place you can see numbers 40 and 42 Vlamingstraat, built in the 19th century. Vermeer’s aunt Roentgen Claes, lived in the house at the right, with her children, until her death in 1670. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2860 The provenance of The Little Street, is not in doubt, having been documented from …