Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan is a self-confessed flâneur ( a French term popularized in the 19th century for a type of urban male...
Stefan Draschan, 1979 | Coincidences at Museums
Walter Crane | Precursor of Art Nouveau
Walter Crane ( 1845-1915 ) was an English artist and book illustrator. Together with William Morris, Walter Crane was a leader in the Art ...
Émile Zola: "I would rather die of passion than of boredom"
• "[ Johann Strauss jr ] Ha mostrato come il mondo può essere bello, io invece ho scritto come il mondo può essere brutto". • ...
Alfonso Simonetti | Romantic painter
Alfonso Simonetti ( 29 December 1840 - 22 August 1892 ) was an Italian painter of historical scenes, portraits and landscapes; best known f...
Eugenio Montale | Accade
Accade che le affinità d'anima non giungano ai gesti e alle parole ma rimangano effuse come un magnetismo. Ѐ raro ma accade. Danie...
Claude Monet | Alice Hoschedé au jardin, 1881
Monet's magnificent depiction of his garden at Vétheuil exemplifies the visual splendor of Impressionism at its height. Monet painted...
Arthur Schopenhauer: "Music is the melody whose text is the world"
• "For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedanti...
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