Carpet with Fame and Fortitude

Photograph of a row of children seated at a loom weaving carpets in the modern-day state of Jammu and Kashmir, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. Carpet-making was said...

John Singer Sargent has gone down in history as one of the most accomplished painters of portraits of women. For much of his career, from his beginnings in Paris and following his ...

Historian William Camden translated the inscription as follows: "Here lies a soldier good, Of Danish royal blood. Magnus was once his name, And like it great his fame. His greatnes...

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain f...