Lucas Cranach the Elder, was friends with all of the big hitters of his Renaissance Germany: painter Albrecht Durer, reformist…
Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in The Netherlands,…
THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY O ripe bosom white that steadily before mine eyes, so dearly drifts, like the clear…
THE SHIP OF FOOLS, INTRODUCTION Knowledge of trouth, prudence, and iust symplicite hath vs clene left. For we set of…
"The Last Supper" is a mural painted on plaster, in tempera, chalk, glue and pitch. In Milan, around 1495, Leonardo…
I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF I live upon this wretched solitary cliff, like a bird of sorrow that…
The "Birth of Venus", is not only a tempera painting on linen canvas, a result of the creativity of 172…
LOVE, I THANK YOU For all my pain and torment, and I’m content, for every sorrow. I’m content for all…
In the iconography of the late lamented of the dead man, it is always expected the presence of the "painful",…